Cats Are Not “Green Rodent Control”
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 29, 2011
And I would like to thank Keith Blackmore for pointing that out. Keep cats indoors!
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What’s In the Freezer for Tonight?
10,000 Birds
JUNE 28, 2013
A wildlife rehabilitator friend, newly licensed, recently called to ask if he could feed a recovering Turkey Vulture anything besides defrosted rodents. He ate through my remaining supply of rats and mice, as well as all my pinkies (hairless, day-old rodents, easily digestible and good for starvation cases). He ate my last quail.
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LA Times "Rodent of the Week" Simply PR for Animal Research
Critter News
APRIL 4, 2010
Rodent of the Week" supposedly highlights the "good things" that come out of animal research. Here's a weird little piece I came across. Clearly, a PR instrument. But even this peppy little piece discusses the weaknesses of animal research. So why not just end it?
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Leaping Foxes
10,000 Birds
MAY 31, 2015
In German, if you are a rodent and you are smaller than – say – a human hand, you’re a mouse. If however you are a larger “mouse”-like rodent you are a rat. Sometimes, red foxes can even be observed hunting during the day when rodents and fox babies are plentiful. No “gophers” etc.
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187 The “Birds” in the Brush
10,000 Birds
MAY 24, 2013
Like most rodents, the ground squirrels of Montana seem well able to persist in the face of human hostility (although species elsewhere like the Mohave ground squirrel and the Franklin’s ground squirrel are at risk in the face of massive habitat loss.) Mammals ground squirrels rodents'
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Owls of Galapagos Islands
10,000 Birds
MARCH 24, 2012
On the main Islands of Santa Cruz, San Cristobal, and Isabela it is found near the garbage dumps where food (rodents) is plentiful. The Barn Owl subspecies is the Tyto alba punctatissima and can be found on Isabela, Santa Cruz, Fernandida, Santiago, San Cristobal, Pinta, and maybe also in Floreana.
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Best Bird of the Weekend (Fourth of February 2020)
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 23, 2020
At least I didn’t have to travel far for great birds; my whole family thrilled to the sight of an adult Sharp-shinned Hawk chowing down on an unspecified rodent in our yard. Some weeks, Monday feels more like a respite than a burden.
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White Squirrels of Rochester
10,000 Birds
MARCH 25, 2012
Our standard Sciuridae is the Eastern Gray Squirrel ( Sciuridae carolinensis ) and while most of these rambunctious rodents are indeed gray, they sometimes come in other flavors. As a native New Yorker, I’ve seen my share of squirrels. The Bronx was beset by hordes of Black Squirrels , melanistic members of this common species.
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Good News for South Georgia Island’s Pipit Population
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 24, 2015
If no signs of rats are found by 2017, the island will be determined rodent-free for the first time since humans set foot on it more than two centuries ago. A final round of baiting just launched in what’s being called the world’s largest rat-eradication project.
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242 Green Bay Turns to Hawks to Stop Rats
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 13, 2011
The nesting program isn’t to benefit the birds but to try to contain a serious rodent problem. Green Bay, Wisconsin, will put up nesting platforms and boxes in an attempt to lure birds of prey. How cool is that?
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Lakshmi’s Owl
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 28, 2013
Common throughout India with a range that covers much of South-east Asia, it can often be seen around habitation where it catches small rodents, insects and invertebrates. Its Latin name, Athene Brama, obliquely acknowledges it’s importance in Hindu culture with a hat-tip to Brahma.
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Red-shouldered Hawk Diet: From Worms To Chicken Thighs
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 8, 2012
I’ve seen red-shoulders go for snakes, rodents, bugs, birds, frogs and once a garden hose (although I’m sure it thought it found a huge snake). Here’s one of the most common hawks in urban areas (and one of the prettiest) and it needs further study! What kinds of things have you seen a red-shouldered hawk go for?
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Food
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 15, 2020
Rodents seem to be less popular, or less available. Black-capped Kingfisher. Little Egret: There is a shrimp farm by the seaside. Very easy work. Similar to the Chinese, birds do not seem to mind eating frogs and toads. Cattle Egret. Brown Shrike. Black-winged Kite: Yes, it is a tail.
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Star quality
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 15, 2011
Baby owls swallowing large rodents were called to mind as the gull wrestled with its lunch. The first klaxon sounded as the gull ejected the starfish for the first time (the judge was standing in for Simon Cowell who is resting after an unpleasant case of over-exposure). Do birds not have a gag reflex?
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Suburban Roadrunners of Southern Missouri
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 26, 2014
But there are abundant lizards here, along with small rodents and no shortage of bird-feeders to plunder. It’s not easy to reconcile the vision of this quintessential desert bird in McMansion land. It’s bizarre cross-toed feet look strange on a lawn of cropped fescue instead of desert pebbles.
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Real Angry Birds
10,000 Birds
JULY 11, 2011
Anger is sometimes justified and the Burrowing Owl ‘s anger should be respected and, if you are a tasty bug or rodent, feared. You would be too if your population was declining and developers were constantly trying to destroy your burrows to build another subdivision. Let’s keep them there.
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Songbird-parrot link strengthened in new study, with implications for vocal learning
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 8, 2011
This relatively new technique has been used to study relationships among and within several groups of mammals, including lagamorphs (rabbits and hares), rodents, and cetaceans (whales and dolphins), but I couldn’t find many references to its application in avian systematics yet.
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The Ultimate Reward
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 20, 2014
Stroll through the park, which turns out to be at least twice the size I expected it to be, tiny Goldcrests and numerous Long-eared Owls … These owls spend winter roosting in parks where there is no pesticide spraying, supposedly because of larger population of rodents in towns and villages.
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Mammals of South Asia (Lynx Edicions)
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 22, 2020
Strictly speaking, Mammals of South Asia is not a field guide, because some larger groups (rodents, bats) cannot be identified down to a species level following the concise descriptions and a single illustration. Still, there should be no problem with larger species that allow for longer observation time (e.g.
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Mammals of Madagascar (Lynx Edicions)
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 7, 2021
Strictly speaking, Mammals of Madagascar is not a field guide, because some larger groups (rodents, bats) cannot be identified down to a species level following the concise descriptions and a single illustration. Still, there should be no problem with larger species that allow for longer observation time (e.g.
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Loggerhead Shrikes breakfast
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 18, 2017
Loggerhead Shrikes are well known for their hunting skills, chasing down lizards, various insects, small rodents and even an occasional snake. It is not uncommon to find results of their skills, in the form of a lizard or other trophy, left on a cactus thorn or barbwire, there for a future meal.
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Grassy Green Space in the Central Valley- Trash Habitat or Prime Real Estate for Oddball Birds?
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 4, 2021
Keep birding and you might see a White-tailed Kite hovering as it hunts rodents and one of the few Bat Falcons in the Valley might dash into view. Lesser numbers of other common birds also occur; birds like the Gray-crowned Yellowthroat , Inca Doves , saltators, Groove-billed Anis , and other species.
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Thank a lemming
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 27, 2011
The Collared Lemming is unique amongst rodents in that it changes colour in the winter to white. Where I live, there are two species of lemmings, the Brown Lemming ( Lemmus trimucronatus ) and the Collared Lemming ( Dicrostonyx groenlandicus ). In Inuktitut they are known as Avinga , which is also one of my son’s names.
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Dogs and Rat Poison
4 The Love Of Animals
DECEMBER 8, 2011
As the weather starts getting colder, there may be a problem with rodents coming into our homes to look for a warm place to nest. It can be ingested through direct consumption of the pellets, or indirectly from chewing on or eating a contaminated rodent. Have an exterminator professionally rid your home of rodents.
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Rescue Spotlight: Rabbit Meadows
4 The Love Of Animals
OCTOBER 29, 2009
As the name suggests, they rescue rabbits, but they also rescue other small animals like ferrets, and other small rodents. Tags: rescue spotlight ferret rabbit rescue rodent. Rabbit Meadows is a rescue group out of Seattle. They also have a huge vision and mission for their sanctuary!
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Rehabber Slang Part 2, etc.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 12, 2014
But not Lisa Kelly, who riffed on it and invented “ramousky,” which is a pinkie (just-born) mouse stuffed inside an adult mouse stuffed inside a rat, and evidently big fun for vultures (all rodents are deceased before the stuffing occurs). More slang?” asked Erin, who is primarily a turtle rehabber. Here’s one: ‘the turtle’s head exploded.’
Swainson’s Hawks in Plumas County
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 22, 2014
Like most buteos, the Swainson’s Hawk feeds its young rodents, rabbits and reptiles but not so during non-breeding season. This video of a kettle of Swainson’s Hawks will give you some idea of this phenomenon. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7tVjohOIdI. v=Q7tVjohOIdI.
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Can Stewart Island become Pest Free?
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 22, 2012
Since then 60 islands have been cleared of rodents, from the sub-tropical Kermadecs to the sub-Antarctic islands, including the ambitious undertaking that was Campbell Island. At 170 hectares it was six times larger than any other island that had been cleared of rats, yet within 21 days of the drop the island had been cleared.
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210 Freeze-birding down the Danube
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 4, 2016
The only mammals of the day were feral Nutrias (Coypus), aquatic rodents originally from southern South America released from the bankrupt fur-farms and well established here. I am checking for darker heads and necks, but the sunset is taking over… “How do you manage to tell them apart,” I ask him. Watch for the dark beaks.”
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Welcome Back Waterfowl at Lee Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge
10,000 Birds
MARCH 30, 2012
As we headed back outside and picked out the quail and American Tree and Song Sparrows around the parking lot area, I discovered a new, mammalian focus of my interest — the Columbian ground squirrel, a charismatic little rodent with white eyeliner, a red nose, and a surprising degree of self-confidence for prey.
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As cute as a mouse!
4 The Love Of Animals
APRIL 26, 2011
Yes, we realize that not everyone shares our love of rodents, but you have to admit this mouse is just plain adorable!
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100 Chinese Give Gerbils Contraceptives to Cut Population
Critter News
MARCH 25, 2009
Forestry officials are leaving pills by the gerbils' burrows to try to cut back the rodents' exploding numbers. Weird, but I give them credit for doing the humane thing. And I don't give the Chinese much credit in this blog. The gerbils, officials say, are threatening the fragile desert ecosystem in the vast Xinjiang region.
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Are Birds Really Dinosaurs?
10,000 Birds
JUNE 16, 2011
Among mammals, bipedalism is found in several rodents, a number of marsupials, and one primate. Bipedalism is somewhat rare these days in the animal world. Facultative (occasional, used when needed) bipedalism occurs in one group of carnivores.
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Short-eared Owl at Plum Beach, Brooklyn
10,000 Birds
MARCH 31, 2011
Because Short-eared Owls are most active at dawn and dusk when they hunt fields and marshes for the rodents that sustain them it is difficult to get images of them in daylight.
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GUYANA–Simply Delicious Birding!
10,000 Birds
MARCH 15, 2021
Giant anteaters, giant otters, giant armadillos, giant river turtles, giant termites and giant waterlilies that can sustain the weight of a human baby! Giant waterlilies at Karanambu Ranch.
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Malaysia Approves Controversial Research Lab
Critter News
JUNE 24, 2010
The lab, which is run by the Britain-based Alpha Biologics, uses monkeys, dogs, rodents and rabbits for toxicology testing. The veterinary services department launched a probe this month after animal rights campaigners accused the Progenix Research lab based in the northern state of Penang of cruelty to animals.
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A winter miscellany
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 15, 2023
One creature that doesn’t budge for the Nuthatch is the Brown Rat, and a pair of these rodents were demonstrating their agility by raiding the bird seed. They were bold, too, unworried by my presence. I wished I was armed with my air rifle rather than my camera.
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Ethiopia’s Endemics
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 14, 2012
They have now evolved to survive mostly on rodents of high elevation moorlands in Ethiopia’s mountains. Ethiopian Wolf Also known as the Simien Wolf or Fox, this long-legged canid is an ancient relict of former times when Timber Wolves had more expansive ranges.
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Honey, I Shrunk The Dinosaurs!
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 19, 2014
Fortunately for we humans, placing primates properly phylogenetically in relation to the other mammals requires an act or two of faith at the deeper ends of the family tree, but it is probably true that primates and rodents share a common stock to the exclusion of others, so maybe we are all mice.
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Rats help save humans.
4 The Love Of Animals
APRIL 25, 2010
The sizeable rodents are helping to detect tuberculosis (TB). (In ancient Greece and China, if you were suspected to have tuberculosis, doctors would burn your spit with a stone or hot flame and interpret the fume’s odor.). Recently, another powerful little nose has joined the diagnostic force: that of the African giant pouched rat.
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Aniweb Roundup
4 The Love Of Animals
MAY 11, 2009
If you do, then you may have met a lot of fun anipals including an ROUS (rodent of unusual size). Come visit our guest post on the awesome Paw Talk website. It’s about choosing products for your pet. Do you Twitter? Come read Caplin’s take on being a social animal online ! Visit our other site for a chance to win Dirty Bow Wow.
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100 Seal Industry Tries to Capitalize on Medical Researchers Conjectures
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 12, 2011
Pibarot has yet to begin collecting data through testing rodents and he says that a clinical trial in humans is hypothetical at this point - at least a decade of positive results and funding would have to be established first. The research at Laval University is still in the earliest stages.
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West Virginia University to Build Animal Research Lab
Critter News
MARCH 6, 2010
It will house rodents for use in experiments. Thanks to your tax dollars, federal stimulus money is being used to build a $14.5 million dollar research lab. It is the largest grant thus far under the stimulus package. Why would this West Virginia University project be the recipient of federal stimulus money? Because it will create JOBS!
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