10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2014

The snake was wrapped firmly around the hawk’s tail, neck, and wings, and had enough strength to immobilize the bird but not to kill him. KWWC also has a thriving feral chicken sideline. The duo locked in battle turned out to be a juvenile Broad-winged Hawk and a Black Snake.

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Reptiles Chickens Sea Turtles Wildlife Rehabilitation 250

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2013

And so, when Salvador Ramirez left, there were feral goats on the island of San Clemente, the southernmost of the Channel Islands off the coast of California. And so, a man named Salvador Ramirez brought a small herd of goats from Santa Catalina Island where he was to San Clemente Island where he went to live.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2023

And of course, there is a large number of Rock Doves (feral), particularly near one particular mosque. Legend has it that anyone who kills one of these pigeons will go blind – for once, a superstition I highly appreciate and which I wish we could expand to all other bird species as well.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 20, 2008

More than 60,000 cats were killed in Illinois animal pounds and shelters in 2006. That’s 5,000 cats killed every month, and 160 each day. In the same year that 60,000 cats were killed and 17,000 went missing, the Illinois Department of Agriculture didn’t review the reports. Tags: feral cats. Things don't look too good.

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Cats Feral Cats Illinois 2006 100

Critter News

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Grasso finally got his day in court Monday, testifying that he shot and killed three cats last June only after they had hissed and spat at him from the basement of a Lackawanna apartment complex. “I I've captured a number of feral cats. Tags: animal killing. Lackawanna animal-control officer Frederick S. How scary is that?

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Animal Person

APRIL 24, 2009

We are a far bigger problem on this planet than the (over)population of feral cats, elephants, Canada geese, or any other creature we "manage" or want to manage, "humanely" or otherwise. And when the option is rounding them up and killing them, TNR looks like an especially attractive option. And this is one of them.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

As most people know cats, both feral and domestic, have a pretty big impact on wild birds and other wildlife, and the effect of mammals is particularly profound in New Zealand. Conservation was in the news again in the last few weeks here in New Zealand, and unfortunately not in a good way.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

They range from the successful eradication of feral cats from Marion Island (hear that, Corey?) The leopards place their kill in a tree, protecting it from poaching by other predators. So, the best way to find a leopard is to find the kill.

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South Africa Africa Leopards Penguins 255

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 17, 2019

One odd flock of Feral Pigeons above an arable field under deep snow – nothing for them to eat there, but I didn’t give them the attention they deserve and only a few hours later realised that they actually were Stock Doves. we will kill it!”, Normally, two thirds of all geese are White-fronted and one third Greylag.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Invited by the welcoming shade of an old plane tree, I sat in a corner café, enjoying the sound of water trickling down the small fountain and attracting House Sparrows and Feral Pigeons to come and drink, while waiting for a friend to join me. No, no, they do not serve beer. Hence, I had to adopt a new one. And I become a Birder.

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Bosnia Croatia Herzegovina Slovenia 188

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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Feral Cats North America Feral Cats 257

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2012

I am so sick of the feral cat colonies that infest so many locations that I like to bird. And while I am sick of the cat colonies I am even more sick of the deluded people who believe that by feeding feral cats they are somehow helping them. Mr Kerridge says it is a misconception that cats kill a huge number of birds.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 22, 2015

Thanks to groups like Alley Cat Allies, outdoor and feral cats have become above the law. Neighbor B’s cats are constantly on neighbor A’s property, urinating and defecating all over her garden, spreading disease, maiming and killing the birds who flock to her feeders. What birds need is their own SWAT team. What can she do?

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Feral Cats Feral Cats Wildlife Rehabilitation 259

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

However, in this post, I’d like to lay out the basic numbers as we pretend to know them about overall bird mortality, human related causes of mortality, and somewhere in there I’ll note that the number of birds that are killed by windmills is so small that it says “zero” on my pie chart.

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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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Cats Feral Cats Litter Ohio 244

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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Feral Cats Neutering Feral Cats 210

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2012

Nonnative species have huge impacts on wildlife species everywhere… mice kill seabird chicks in their burrows, rats eat endangered bird eggs, overpopulated deer clear the understory of forests, pigs root out native plants and terrestrial animals, cats kill anything they can get their paws on. The logic of this is ridiculous.

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Animal Rights Movement Animal Rights Wildlife Rights 253

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

AUGUST 13, 2013

Its numbers are declining rapidly due to feral cats and this duck is currently listed as vulnerable. These predatory thrushes have been known to prey on albatross and Spectacled Petrel eggs, the young of Great Shearwaters and have even been known to remove storm-petrel species from their burrows and kill them.

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South Africa Birds South America Feral Cats 248

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 17, 2012

But that is what I believed happened to this Common Yellowthroat which I found dead in Kissena Corridor Park which has great habitat for birds but also hosts a feral cat colony. American Crow carrying a road-killed bird Some birds die anonymously on their long trek – unmourned, unloved, and unknown.

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Feral Cats Cats Killing North America 224

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2024

The tiercels (young Peregrines) must deal with Golden Eagles, Ravens, adult Peregrines, and foxes; they must also learn to navigate the skies and make their own kills, luckily these skills appear to be innately learned. Coyotes took carrion from young Condors and then killed the weakest ones. It’s not easy.

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California Condor Falcons California Coyotes 180

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

The other day, Minneapolis, Minnesota passed a feral cat ordinance. So I put together a “carnival” (of sorts) of Feral Cat Ordinances and Issues that samples current events across the US. From the Star Tribune : Feral cats win a round at Minneapolis City Hall. This got me wondering what other cities were doing.

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Feral Cats Feral Cats Minneapolis 251

10,000 Birds

MARCH 26, 2014

Well, Copenhagen Zoo is back in the news; a few weeks after killing a giraffe and feeding it to some lions, it went and killed some of those same lions. If the whole thing passed you by then Mother Jones did a good piece on why zoos sometimes have to kill individuals for the good of the species.

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Lions Giraffes Zoos Killing 150

10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2022

I put it in a small box for several hours, where it appeared to recover, but studies have shown that internal injuries from a strike usually kill the bird. Photographs of window-killed birds from Fatal Light Awareness Program (FLAP) Copyright © 2021 Daniel Klem, Jr. The more glass, the more bird kills. ©2012 Donna L.

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New York City Illinois Science Killing 264

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2016

They pointed out the puncture wounds, likely infected with bacteria that could quickly kill. But, we’re facing a world of shrinking biodiversity and depressingly-high bird kill numbers that demand an accounting outside of our self interest. They simply helped me with my bird. Caring for our own is an element of survival.

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Cats Stray Cat Stray Wildlife Rehabilitation 223

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 27, 2014

feral cat with a Golden-crowned Kinglet by Isaac Grant. So on 16 October, which Alley Cat Allies has turned into “National Feral Cat Day,” local governments got an earful. Fort Myers, Florida, where the feral cats have gotten so bad that people are moving out of their neighborhoods. Conservation cats Feral Cats'

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Feral Cats Feral Cats Trap Neuter Return 264

10,000 Birds

JUNE 16, 2018

There is a cat curfew for domestic animals in some states and a cull has been instigated to try to reduce the number of feral felines, currently estimated at 2 million. In Australia where the endemic prey population has evolved without cats, the problem has reached the stage where drastic measures have been imposed.

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Cats Culling Hunting Feral 116

Animal Person

MAY 24, 2010

Some of these discussions make me think: Boy, that Rick Berman, that FBI, those people who spend their lives using and killing animals for fun and profit--don't need to do much to bring this movement down because we're doing it ourselves. And embarrassing. I understand the need for critique and productive criticism within a movement.

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Vegan Animal Vegetarian Feral Cats 100

Animal Ethics

JULY 28, 2008

Predator control (yet more killing by our government in the service of ranchers) is to blame for any overpopulation of herbivores. Priscilla Feral President, Friends of Animals Darien, Conn., Davis, an emeritus professor of animal science at Oregon State University, says the horses “damage” the environment. July 23, 2008

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New York Times New York Horses Oregon 40

10,000 Birds

JUNE 14, 2011

I have never been one to advocate the needless killing of animals for whatever purpose. Consider the following quote, &# Falconry involves the use of birds of prey to kill other birds and animals for sport. In the case of fox hunting (a true bloodsport), dogs are domesticated animals that are killing, not for food, but for sport.

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League Against Cruel Sports Rabbits Falcons Hunting 270

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

Sadly it had recently been killed and was lying in the garden bed beside the path. All indications are that it was a feral or domestic cat that had caused its demise. We were grateful that we had found the Fairy Pitta while it was still only freshly killed and it will be going to the Western Australia Museum as a specimen.

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Australia Litter Geese Cats 138

Critter News

DECEMBER 14, 2008

Quantico Military Base is really behaving cruelly when it comes to the feral cats on its base. If they are not adoptable, oh well, kill them. We do not support or promote feral animals on the base,” flatly stated Bruce Frizzell, head of the Natural Resources and Environmental Affairs office. They’re a big impact on wildlife.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2018

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. A foot deep by some accounts, it killed what life was left in the forest. And, then there were the droppings.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2013

Tibbles did contribute, but it was a population of feral cats that did the bulk of the killing. For the wren, that advantage was taken away in 1894, when a pregnant cat escaped (Tibbles was a pet taken from the subsequent feral population). Ironically these are the same feral cats that exterminated the wren in the first place.

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Feral Cats Eggs Cats Feral 240

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Case in point: some of my family members have become active with feral cat colony organizations. On the one hand, it’s better than doing nothing with a feral cat colony. But I don’t agree with the supplemental feeding that happens with feral cats–if you’re gonna call them wildlife, treat them as such.

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