10,000 Birds
MAY 11, 2012
As I’ve posted before they are efficient and merciless hunters. They do like to supplement their diet with small mammals, reptiles, amphibians, insects. They are aided by excellent binocular vision that lines up with their dagger-like bill. This one was so good it caught two fish at a time (just once though).
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 25, 2016
The relevant numbers involving cats, the people that cherish them, and the birds (and small mammals and reptiles) that they kill are all too large to mean much; you might as well use the funny word “gazillions.” And keeping cats, natural hunters, indoors is, as a matter of biology and of common sense, not the healthiest state for them.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 22, 2014
And for rodents and reptiles as well. This almost certainly can be argued to be true just on the basis of logic, because feral Cats are proficient hunters and are entirely out of ecological place. Let me tell you this: They are. There is no native cat smaller than a Bobcat here, and Bobcats are considerably larger than Kitties.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 3, 2022
The White’s Thrush will keep pretending to be a reptile. But then, I am not a hunter, and do not understand them either). This place is also the preferred option for those birds – such as this S winhoe’s White-eye – which prefer showers to full baths.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 17, 2015
The Refuge is now home to nearly 200 species of birds, over 50 species of mammals, 25 species of reptiles and amphibians, and a wide variety of insects, fish and plants. Note in this 2010 video, birders, birdwatching and kayakers are mentioned, not hunters. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk_5pt9OTLA. v=sk_5pt9OTLA. What do you think?
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 1, 2015
Rattlesnakes are fair game, as are other reptiles, scorpions, frogs, birds, and insects. Car collisions, feral cats, and run-ins with hunters also cause problems, even for this speed-racer. These ground birds have been clocked going 20 mph, though their coyote predators can go more than twice that.
10,000 Birds
JULY 11, 2012
The conservation movement also has an ally in this in the farming industry, which relies on possum poisoning to reduce the potential reservoir of bovine TB (if that seems like an interesting alliance, in this fight the animals rights movement is allied to hunters, which oppose the control of larger introduced species which they like to hunt!).
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