Eggs Hunters Rats 
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 4, 2012
They breed in dense colonies, incubate their single egg on the feet, and take more than a year to fledge a chick. The South Georgia Pipit is near threatened, its nests predated by rats, and is one of the main reasons that the South Georgia Heritage Trust aims to eradicate rats from the whole area.
10,000 Birds
JULY 24, 2014
Unfortunately for the hunters these were already all extinct, and with the introduction of cats, rats, stoats and the like the only upland game bird, the New Zealand Quail , was fast on the way out too. Using ministerial connections he obtained 100 mallard eggs from the US and began to breed and distribute them.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 11, 2012
Each year tens of thousands of these gulls go to the islands and each pair will lay three eggs. Most of these clutches of eggs will hatch to produce three fluffy and adorable chicks. Take a project to remove rats from the Californian island of Anacapa (in the Channel Islands).
Critter News
MAY 28, 2009
Homemakers employ deadly rat traps and poisons to rid their dwellings of vermin. Hunters shoot down animals in cold blood for mere sport. But the rest of us rat-killing, horse-racing, lobster-boiling, deer-hunting carnivores should take the planks out of our eyes before trying to remove the speck from Vick's.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 7, 2014
Rats arrived on ships and cats, foxes and rabbits were all introduced and they were all detrimental to the bird population. Foxes have also been known to take their eggs and there are now numerous local groups who endeavour to help the populations of Hooded Plovers along their local coastlines.
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