10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

I find it astonishing that people argue of whether feral cats are bad for birds in North America. The plethora of approaches to the feral Cat problem is not an outcome of a diversity of great ideas; it is the ugly chimera of inappropriate compromise among biased and often poorly informed stakeholders. Which would be even worse.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 19, 2013

Much has been made in these pages about the havoc that feral cats wreak on native birds. Maybe Daleks could be trained to focus on feral cats?). Hey bird lovers, maybe getting feral cats addicted to fast food is an idea worth considering! And the TNR/exterminate debate rages on. Except, possibly, for Chicken McNuggets.)

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 11, 2014

The National Park Service is finally going to remove the feral cat colony from Plumb Beach, part of the Gateway National Recreation Area. Nature lovers, rejoice! Signs like the one above went up late last week.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

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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10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2013

The American Bird Conservancy announced a new study that feral cats prey on the endangered Hawaiian Petrel. At the risk of sounding insensitive, duh. Scientists might find it more challenging to seek out evidence of which bird species, particularly non-Arctic, island-bound species, are NOT preyed upon by birds. That would be news.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 21, 2012

Jim Coufal, writing for the Madison County Courier in upstate New York, shares his thoughts on the feral and outdoor cat problem.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

The American Bird Conservancy has been at the forefront of that fight and they have written a letter to the mayors of the fifty largest cities in the United States asking them to help stop the rising tide of feral cats. Larry has the story at The Birder’s Report.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Still, with the help of various sources, the authors have a try: Ninety million cats live in 46 million American homes; There are 100 million feral cats that live outside and eat mostly wildlife, and 50 million owned cats (i.e., Header image of feral cat with a Golden-crowned Kinglet by Isaac Grant. By Peter P.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 14, 2008

Quantico Military Base is really behaving cruelly when it comes to the feral cats on its base. We do not support or promote feral animals on the base,” flatly stated Bruce Frizzell, head of the Natural Resources and Environmental Affairs office. Feral cats may be an animal problem, but there is a human solution.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 25, 2008

Cory Williams, of the famed "Mean Kitty" YouTube videos (which are really funny), has a good how-to video about doing a trap, spay/neuter, and release of feral cats in your neighborhood. Tags: feral cats. The video was done on behalf of the Stray Cat Alliance.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

So here is a nice story and video about a HSUS rescue of a California feral colony. Tags: HSUS california animal rescue feral cats. Haven't been into deep posts at all. It makes me want to get back into animal rescue, which is where my animal rights activism started.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2013

On 14 March, 2013, the Orlando Sentinel published an opinion piece by Ted Williams under the headline “Trap, neuter, return programs make feral-cat problem worse.” Then he gave a couple of alternative solutions to the feral cat problem: There are two effective, humane alternatives to the cat hell of TNR. ” Wait, what?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2013

He wrote a column , not for Audubon, but for the Orlando Sentinal , in which he advocated the killing of feral cats instead of the use of trap-neuter-release. Feral cats kill birds by the billions in the United States and the only real solution to the problem is removal and euthanasia, along with heavy fines for those caught dumping cats.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

But as of right now there is nowhere in the United States where a birder can see a chicken and count it on his or her list despite the fact that there is a well established and long lasting Feral Chicken population in the Florida Keys. It is time for the Florida Ornithological Society to allow for the counting of Feral Chickens.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2013

After careful consideration of all of the enlightened arguments that have been made by those in favor of Trap-Neuter-Return for feral cats in recent blog posts , we here at 10,000 Birds have been completely convinced by their well-thought-out, logical, and airtight conclusions.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2015

Two Feral Pigeons. Three Feral Pigeons. One more Feral Pigeon. One Feral Pigeon. A Hooded Crow. One more Hooded Crow. And so on… not much of a birding day, heh? I am inside the city of Belgrade, checking the theoretically possible Peregrine Falcon site. A Great Tit. Yet, not a trace of a falcon.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 2, 2024

Not only do the falcons help disperse the unwelcome Feral Pigeons, they also attract visitors. Rock Doves or Feral Pigeons are their traditional favourite quarry, and it’s one of which there is no shortage in every town. It is good to report, too, that the clergy has been generally supportive of their high-rise tenants.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Shorter Steve Dale : Hey, birders, agree with me that feral cats should be left in the wild where they will kill birds. Oh, and could you volunteer to help maintain feral cat colonies? See, we can get along! Trap-Neuter-Release is a failure and leads to misery for cats and death for birds and other wild creatures.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

The misconception was revealed on a bigger screen when I got home and I saw that what I had taken to be his fingers were the spread primaries of a pigeon (or Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) if you are looking for an easy tick). It came about when Wakim arrived on his motorbike carrying two large sacks of corn.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 26, 2013

Now if we can just get the National Audubon Society to start putting some money where their mouth is on the feral / outdoor cat issue… UPDATE – To the cat crazies I have one thing to say. Your support went as viral as the emails from Alley Cat Allies. I was touched and humbled. Thanks so much my friends.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 26, 2011

But this does beg the question – What is an acceptable approach for a private citizen to take when their neighborhood is inundated with feral cats? Here’s hoping that Dauphine has her name cleared.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Here’s hoping that Charles County, Maryland, stands up to the feral cat mafia and moves ahead with plans to require cats be licensed and special “animal fancier” licenses be required for those who harbor ten or more cats on their property.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2021

We have observed Pied Oystercatcher parents chase of White-bellied Sea-Eagles and unfortunately there are feral cats and feral foxes have become more prevalent too. There are numerous species of raptors around Broome including Black Kites and Whistling Kites.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2014

State biologists are observing more and more mixed flocks and mixed pairs in the wild and these feral mallards are mating with mottled ducks, producing a hybrid offspring. These hybrid offspring are fertile, which further compounds the problem. The Meller’s Duck is highly endangered in its native Madagascar. What Is Being Done?

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10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2012

Contradicting this relentless shooting were efforts to establish feral populations in many regions of Europe, both within and outside its natural range. It is very likely that the white morph was directly promoted in captive breeding and favoured in releases to establish feral populations. So much for the blessings of beauty.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2012

It is commonly kept in captivity and has therefore established many feral populations world-wide originating from escaped / released cage birds. This is what happens when people choose their pet birds on visual factors alone without taking vocalizations into account. Very stupid thing to do.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2012

Almost every single outdoor pet cat, feral cat, or stray kills other animals , no matter how well fed the cat is through other sources. Trap-neuter-release programs sound nice and let folks think that they are doing good but they actually often add to the problem , and never reach the goal of zero feral cats in an area.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 28, 2014

The lawsuit alleges that the City of Albuquerque partnered with animal advocate groups to implement a Trap, Neuter, Return (TNR) program in which stray or feral cats are trapped, sterilized, vaccinated, and then abandoned at the location at which they were trapped. Blair Dunn on behalf of Marcy Britton, a resident of Albuquerque.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 8, 2012

Apparently Alley Cat Allies only wants to protect feral cats, an introduced predator that decimates native wildlife communities. And should a group dare question the wisdom of domestic cats being outdoors they are “extremists” in the eyes of the crazy cat people.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

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.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 15, 2014

Unfortunately these are house cats, not feral, that live outdoors (for some reason). So this may not inform us much of what feral cats are doing. And daily feces analysis. But maybe the research will be extended to address that question. I’ve got a call in with the research team. Birds research'

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2011

Feral Muscovy Ducks seem to attract many of those epithets. Not only are the individual ducks hard to look at, but in groups, the feral populations create the same messes other masses of waterfowl do. The word manky means many things in British parlance from dirty and disgusting to inferior and worthless.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2015

Closely related to the Feral Pigeon and Stock Dove , the woodpigeon (we seldom bother with the pre-fix) is easily recognised by its large size, white neckpatch and the white, transverse bars on its wings. At distance, flocks are looser and far less synchronised that Feral pigeons. A woodpigeon often sits on my roof, near the chimney.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2014

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. There are no Feral Pigeons/Rock Doves in the Broome area and these invasive species are mainly found in the cities of the south.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2012

In related news, Universal Orlando’s Loews Hotel should be lauded for deciding to take action to remove a feral cat colony from the hotel’s grounds. Recent studies highlighted by the American Bird Conservancy show that cats make up a significant portion of the diet of Coyotes. Want your cat to survive? Keep it indoors!

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10,000 Birds

MAY 13, 2015

Thanks to a relatively feral childhood I have been left immune to the power of poetry, so I shall dismiss the poetry (a form of art comparable at best to interpretive dance) with a simple dismissive wave of the hand. They are birds at their most composed, soaring effortlessly on thermals across the sky, and birds at their most feral.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Feral Pigeons and House Sparrows are in the park year-round in numbers. This one was sitting in the sun on Friday morning, which was rather cold, and it had no problem with my getting down on the ground next to it for a portrait. Yeah, I never thought I would get a picture like this of an Ovenbird ‘s eye either.

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