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Counting Feral Muscovy Ducks in Florida

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The birds in Florida, on the other hand, are of domestic stock gone feral. Despite their questionable background, the feral Muscovy Ducks of Florida are on the state checklist, which only makes sense as they have spread across the state wherever people have settled and provided habitat. And why is it still there?

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Are You Going to the 2015 Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival?

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I had a great time back in 2012 and even more fun in 2014. Ditto for the feral Muscovy Ducks , though they are a bit less nice. I certainly can’t wait for 21 January 2015! That will be the opening day of the 18th Annual Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival in Titusville, Florida. Who knows what great birds 2015 will bring?

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Invasive species in Australia

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Feral cats have been able to adapt very well in Australia and have grown larger over the years and can survive in areas that you would not expect. Feral cat predation on Pied Oystercatcher eggs. On another occasion in 2012 we had four Rock Doves on a power line in town. They are incredibly cunning and not easily trapped.

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Fix Nation

4 The Love Of Animals

FixNation sterilizes more than 70 cats each day and will have successfully trapped, neutered and returned 80,000 cats by the summer of 2012. The group, founded in 2007, also provides a free, full-time spay and neuter clinic for homeless stray and feral cats, plus low-cost, spay and neuter services for tame pet cats.

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The Domestic Turkey and the First Thanksgiving

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Thus, the cattle we raise for meat and dairy are sometimes called Bos taurus while the extinct wild form is always called Bos primigenius. I find that a little surprising since it is our national bird. Well, it isn’t really our national bird, but we all know that it should be. Have a happy Thanksgiving! __ Sources: Badenhorst, Shaw, et. 78(1):61–78.

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Pied Oystercatcher nesting

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The main problem appears to be feral cats, but there is also predation from birds of prey and the parent Pied Oystercatchers do their utmost to protect their young. The last time they successfully raised a chick was in 2012. Feral cat prints at nest site-eggs gone. They are away from most of the traffic and closer to the reef.

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Birding Sarajevo or the sentimental journey home

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And in the middle of a heatwave of the 2012 summer, I was heading to Sarajevo and Jahorina Mountain, a major venue of the 1984 Winter Olympics. Right: Water Pipits landing on my car and sliding down the windscreen. Yet, Bosnia and Herzegovina was the very heartland of former Yugoslavia, with Sarajevo in its geographical centre.

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