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New Year’s Day 2014. Obviously, I am talking of Feral Pigeons (also called city, town or street pigeons). The scientific name of the Feral Pigeon is Columba livia domestica and that last world tells the story. The scientific name of the Feral Pigeon is Columba livia domestica and that last world tells the story.
The Feral Pigeon has many virtues to admire, but who is going to brag about encountering one of those? As much as I love hearing about and sharing Best Birds of the Weekend, sometimes I have cause to ponder just what that term means. Obviously, the birds themselves are not jockeying for recognition.
I reviewed the New Jersey volume in May 2014 and, being in Florida at the moment, I thought this was a good time to take a closer look at both the Florida volume, published just last month, and the Colorado volume, published in June 2014. (I December 2014. At first, I was taken aback by this approach. Scott & Nix, Inc.,
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?
There has been one successful clutch of three eggs since 2000 that we are aware of and that was in 2014. The animal is most likely a feral cat along that stretch of beach, but we also can’t discount a feral fox having encountered a dead one close to Broome recently. Pied Oystercatcher nest in the rocky sandstone.
However, there appears to have been an upward change in their population, at least in Scotland, where a recent RSPB survey found that a cooperative conservation program has increased the population there from 400 singing males in the early 1990s to 1,289 calling males in 2014. In Rare Birds of North America (PUP, 2014), Steven N.G.
A 2014 Smithsonian study concluded that collisions likely kill 365 million to 1 billion birds annually in the U.S., A 2014 Smithsonian study concluded that collisions likely kill 365 million to 1 billion birds annually in the U.S., with a median estimate of 599 million. with a median estimate of 599 million. 101(4), 1989, pp.
The last year that we had success was in 2014 and it was an incredible three Pied Oystercatcher chicks fledged by some older Pied Oystercatchers and they have been our most successful parents to date. I say “luck” because there is a problem with predation by feral cats and it really is beyond their control as it were.
The causes were the usual reasons for island extinction—deforestation by both humans and invasive plants that crowded out native plants, hunting, and invasive rats, mongoose, monkeys, and, of course, feral cats. Let’s take this thought–that some birds should be extinct–and apply it to some actual extinct birds.
Outlook and goals for 2014. In a funny twist of fate, it seems that 2014 will be much the same as 2012 and 2013 have been, with family trips to somewhere in France and business trips to Indonesia and Kazakhstan. What about the competitive element in my 2014 year list? A very good start into 2014. See more than 20 lifers.
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