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Feral Cats Are An Invasive Species in North America (and elsewhere)

10,000 Birds

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. Let me tell you this: They are.

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Freeze-birding down the Danube

10,000 Birds

The only mammals of the day were feral Nutrias (Coypus), aquatic rodents originally from southern South America released from the bankrupt fur-farms and well established here. I am checking for darker heads and necks, but the sunset is taking over… “How do you manage to tell them apart,” I ask him. Watch for the dark beaks.”

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Rescue Spotlight: Rabbit Meadows

4 The Love Of Animals

As the name suggests, they rescue rabbits, but they also rescue other small animals like ferrets, and other small rodents. Our first rescue mission was at a business park in Redmond where we saved 650 feral rabbits from the ultimate fate of the arriving bulldozers. Tags: rescue spotlight ferret rabbit rescue rodent.

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Get Thee To A Wildlife Rehabilitator

10,000 Birds

They would realize that wild owls fly silently through the night and grab unwary rodents, not unsuspecting packages of processed cow meat. That is, until the ducklings grow up, are released into a pond, and greet the local feral cat colony as long-lost relatives. In a perfect world, people would know better.

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Invasive species in Australia

10,000 Birds

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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Feather Trails: A Journey of Discovery Among Endangered Birds–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

The Hawaiian Crows face much more destructive threats–extreme loss of habitat; malaria, the scourge of so many Hawaiian species; predators–rodents, cats and the ‘Io, the Hawaiian Hawk. This is the most intense, tragic section.

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How many birds are killed by windmills and other green energy projects?

10,000 Birds

Notably, this is a vey small number compared to the number of rodents killed by the same cats. Also, in relatively natural, or wild, lands in much of the US the feral cat population will be limited by a healthy wild predator population.

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