Tufted Titmouse Plucking a Raccoon
10,000 Birds
MAY 20, 2011
Naturalists examining old nests have identified raccoon, opossum, dog, fox squirrel, red squirrel, rabbit, horse, cow, cat, mouse, woodchuck, and even human hair in titmouse nests.
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Fur and Fangs rather than Feathers and Beaks
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 19, 2024
Undesirable alien: there are an estimated 2 million Grey Squirrels in Britain An English Red Squirrel. An Estonian Red Squirrel , looking more grey than red One introduced animal that we are unlikely to ever eradicate from Britain is the North American Grey Squirrel, a mammal I see nearly every day.
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What’s In the Freezer for Tonight?
10,000 Birds
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He then ate a screech owl, a robin, two squirrels, a mourning dove, three chipmunks, and a rabbit. He ate through my remaining supply of rats and mice, as well as all my pinkies (hairless, day-old rodents, easily digestible and good for starvation cases). He ate my last quail.
There’s More to Birding than Birds
10,000 Birds
MAY 27, 2013
In New York and Chicago, they’ve been pretty mundane—a White-tailed Deer here, an Eastern Cottontail rabbit there. And of course, way too many chipmunks and squirrels and raccoons and turtles to count. Nothing, however, prepared me for the fauna that awaited last weekend at the Spring Wings festival in Fallon, Nevada.
Sepilok: Worth a Second Look
10,000 Birds
JUNE 25, 2014
We heard, but didn’t see, a Brown Wood-ow l, and best of all a massive cat-sized Red Giant Flying Squirrel and a rabbit-sized Sunda Stink-badger. This Cream-coloured Giant Squirrel was one of the highlights of Sepilok’s Rainforest Discovery Centre. It is hard to tell, but it is massive!
Poop From The Front End Of The Bird
10,000 Birds
JUNE 22, 2011
I took home a few of the pellets and found that the owls were feasting on grey squirrels and cottontail rabbits. Check out the bones that are clearly visible, you wouldn’t find that with a hawk pellet.
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