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?). A possible solution may be hidden in recent news from New Zealand. Hey bird lovers, maybe getting feral cats addicted to fast food is an idea worth considering!
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. The New Zealand Grey Duck is nearly extinct as species. Approximately 95 percent of the native Gray Ducks in New Zealand are hybrids.
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 6, 2013
Conservation was in the news again in the last few weeks here in New Zealand, and unfortunately not in a good way. 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.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 28, 2014
The colorful Purple Swamphen ( Porphyrio porphyrio ) lives in wetlands from Portugal and Senegal all the way east to New Zealand and the Samoan Islands, and a feral population is now well established in Florida. Above: Swamphen in Australia by James Niland).
10,000 Birds
MARCH 21, 2018
After an amazing trip thru Doubtful Sound, New Zealand, the next stop was to be in Bluff, just south of Invercargill. Up to this point, the weather had been just about perfect, but Mother Nature had some special plans for my arrival on the southern tip of New Zealand. All these newly introduced vermin had a field day.
10,000 Birds
JULY 26, 2014
– Greater Rheas : Germany’s new Big Bird – Feral Pigeons World Wide – New York City’s First Eurasian Collared-Dove – The Eurasian Collared-Dove Explosion: Coming to a Town Near You!
10,000 Birds
JULY 9, 2021
The Kea – New Zealand’s enigmatic alpine parrot. It is also strange, perhaps, that the subject of this short excellent video series, is not from Australia but from the true ‘land of birds’ across the ditch from Australia – New Zealand or Aotearoa. The Tui – a New Zealand endemic.
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