10,000 Birds

MAY 31, 2015

In German, if you are a rodent and you are smaller than – say – a human hand, you’re a mouse. If however you are a larger “mouse”-like rodent you are a rat. Sometimes, red foxes can even be observed hunting during the day when rodents and fox babies are plentiful. No “gophers” etc.

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Fox Rodents Gophers Germany 164

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2014

The Carolina Wren pictured above was caught in a Walmart in a trap set for rodents. See Safe Rodent Control. However, many people who wouldn’t dream of setting a leg-hold trap use glue traps, which accomplish the same thing – just on a smaller scale. I could laugh about it because the mole was fine.”. Glue traps!

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Mice Rodents Rescue 279

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2020

The deadly prowess with which their resident Barn Owls hunt rodents allows Z. It certainly makes an attractive mascot in its own right, but it’s also one that was chosen for a reason: as the company explains, the Barn Owl is a “guardian of the vine” and it welcomes the presence of these birds in its fields by installing nest boxes.

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Barn Owls 2017 Rodents Owls 231

10,000 Birds

MARCH 24, 2012

On the main Islands of Santa Cruz, San Cristobal, and Isabela it is found near the garbage dumps where food (rodents) is plentiful. The Barn Owl subspecies is the Tyto alba punctatissima and can be found on Isabela, Santa Cruz, Fernandida, Santiago, San Cristobal, Pinta, and maybe also in Floreana.

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Owls Barn Owls Rodents Birds 195

10,000 Birds

MAY 24, 2013

Like most rodents, the ground squirrels of Montana seem well able to persist in the face of human hostility (although species elsewhere like the Mohave ground squirrel and the Franklin’s ground squirrel are at risk in the face of massive habitat loss.) Mammals ground squirrels rodents'

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Chipmunks Squirrels Rodents Montana 180

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 13, 2011

The nesting program isn’t to benefit the birds but to try to contain a serious rodent problem. Green Bay, Wisconsin, will put up nesting platforms and boxes in an attempt to lure birds of prey. How cool is that?

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Rats Wisconsin Rodents Birds 164

10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2012

Our standard Sciuridae is the Eastern Gray Squirrel ( Sciuridae carolinensis ) and while most of these rambunctious rodents are indeed gray, they sometimes come in other flavors. As a native New Yorker, I’ve seen my share of squirrels. The Bronx was beset by hordes of Black Squirrels , melanistic members of this common species.

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Squirrels Rodents Mammals Bears 196

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 20, 2015

” We don’t call any rodents “flightless rodents” though almost all of them are. Not all birds fly, but all birds have flight related anatomy and at least descend from those that did. Indeed, we call the very rare non-fliers “flightless.”

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Rodents Primates Bats Science 186

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 24, 2015

If no signs of rats are found by 2017, the island will be determined rodent-free for the first time since humans set foot on it more than two centuries ago. A final round of baiting just launched in what’s being called the world’s largest rat-eradication project.

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Georgia Rats Rodents 2017 181

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

I’ve seen red-shoulders go for snakes, rodents, bugs, birds, frogs and once a garden hose (although I’m sure it thought it found a huge snake). Here’s one of the most common hawks in urban areas (and one of the prettiest) and it needs further study! What kinds of things have you seen a red-shouldered hawk go for?

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Chickens Rodents Meat North America 220

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

At least I didn’t have to travel far for great birds; my whole family thrilled to the sight of an adult Sharp-shinned Hawk chowing down on an unspecified rodent in our yard. Some weeks, Monday feels more like a respite than a burden.

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2020 New York City Rodents New York 167

10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2011

Anger is sometimes justified and the Burrowing Owl ‘s anger should be respected and, if you are a tasty bug or rodent, feared. You would be too if your population was declining and developers were constantly trying to destroy your burrows to build another subdivision. Let’s keep them there.

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Rodents Birds Owls Game 232

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

They would realize that wild owls fly silently through the night and grab unwary rodents, not unsuspecting packages of processed cow meat. We receive nestling owls who have been fed nothing but hamburger, whose bones are so brittle from lack of calcium that they break when they try to stand. In a perfect world, people would know better.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Wildlife Feral Cats Hamburgers 257

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Stroll through the park, which turns out to be at least twice the size I expected it to be, tiny Goldcrests and numerous Long-eared Owls … These owls spend winter roosting in parks where there is no pesticide spraying, supposedly because of larger population of rodents in towns and villages.

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Serbia Owls Rodents India 237

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 15, 2011

Baby owls swallowing large rodents were called to mind as the gull wrestled with its lunch. The first klaxon sounded as the gull ejected the starfish for the first time (the judge was standing in for Simon Cowell who is resting after an unpleasant case of over-exposure). Do birds not have a gag reflex?

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Rodents Owls America Birds 200

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

Common throughout India with a range that covers much of South-east Asia, it can often be seen around habitation where it catches small rodents, insects and invertebrates. Its Latin name, Athene Brama, obliquely acknowledges it’s importance in Hindu culture with a hat-tip to Brahma.

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Owls Rodents Transported India 179

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2014

A bit alarming, given the events of the last few weeks in Missoula, but after years of close encounters with chipmunks and ground squirrels I have finally gotten to have a pretty good idea of a rodent when I hear one.

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Woodchucks Chipmunks Rodents Seals 230

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2014

But there are abundant lizards here, along with small rodents and no shortage of bird-feeders to plunder. It’s not easy to reconcile the vision of this quintessential desert bird in McMansion land. It’s bizarre cross-toed feet look strange on a lawn of cropped fescue instead of desert pebbles.

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Missouri Mississippi Agenda Rodents 201

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2021

Keep birding and you might see a White-tailed Kite hovering as it hunts rodents and one of the few Bat Falcons in the Valley might dash into view. Lesser numbers of other common birds also occur; birds like the Gray-crowned Yellowthroat , Inca Doves , saltators, Groove-billed Anis , and other species.

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Costa Rica Sparrows Rodents Rats 251

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Rodents seem to be less popular, or less available. Black-capped Kingfisher. Little Egret: There is a shrimp farm by the seaside. Very easy work. Similar to the Chinese, birds do not seem to mind eating frogs and toads. Cattle Egret. Brown Shrike. Black-winged Kite: Yes, it is a tail.

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Fish Rodents China Vegetarian 192

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Strictly speaking, Mammals of Madagascar is not a field guide, because some larger groups (rodents, bats) cannot be identified down to a species level following the concise descriptions and a single illustration. Still, there should be no problem with larger species that allow for longer observation time (e.g.

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Madagascar Mammals Lemurs Seychelles 239

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2011

For instance, I can lay my hands on data for primates and rodents (because I’ve collected those data for research) but I don’t have comparable data for bovids (just selected data) and zero data for birds (in spreadsheets on my computer). If we were to remove the hooved animals and non-Mustelidae carnivores (i.e.,

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Mammals Rodents Reptiles Birds 174

4 The Love Of Animals

DECEMBER 8, 2011

As the weather starts getting colder, there may be a problem with rodents coming into our homes to look for a warm place to nest. It can be ingested through direct consumption of the pellets, or indirectly from chewing on or eating a contaminated rodent. Have an exterminator professionally rid your home of rodents.

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Rats Dogs Rodents Vet 100

4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 29, 2009

As the name suggests, they rescue rabbits, but they also rescue other small animals like ferrets, and other small rodents. Tags: rescue spotlight ferret rabbit rescue rodent. Rabbit Meadows is a rescue group out of Seattle. They also have a huge vision and mission for their sanctuary!

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Rabbits Rescue Rabbit Rescue Ferrets 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2021

Another Roller en route (they responded well to recently posted bird boxes), and we found ourselves in the Tamis river floodplain, where a White-tailed Eagle with a large rodent prey (either a Muskrat or a young Coypu , a.k.a. Nutria) flew by us (this time, it was Q. who dipped it). Several Barred Warblers were singing here.

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Serbia Romania Eagles Falcons 234

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

This relatively new technique has been used to study relationships among and within several groups of mammals, including lagamorphs (rabbits and hares), rodents, and cetaceans (whales and dolphins), but I couldn’t find many references to its application in avian systematics yet.

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Parrots Falcons Indonesia Rodents 189

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2012

It is quite a sight to experience hundreds of Abdim’s Stork dropping out of the skies from seemingly thin air, to gorge on burnt or fleeing insects and rodents. Once the drier winter months approach they move northwards into East and West Africa where they are particularly attracted by bushfires.

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Africa Tanzania South Africa Uganda 237

4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 26, 2011

Yes, we realize that not everyone shares our love of rodents, but you have to admit this mouse is just plain adorable!

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Rodents 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2014

They might have a negative impact on local flora, invertebrates and small rodents, either directly or indirectly through competition for food. We think they might have an impact on ground-nesting birds, but there is no data supporting this. But again, there’s no data to back it up.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Notably, this is a vey small number compared to the number of rodents killed by the same cats. A recent meta study ( The impact of free-ranging domestic cats on wildlife of the United States ) that applied strict inclusion criteria and some fancy statistics estimates that 2.4

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Killing Cats Fish Feral Cats 274

Critter News

MARCH 25, 2009

Forestry officials are leaving pills by the gerbils' burrows to try to cut back the rodents' exploding numbers. Weird, but I give them credit for doing the humane thing. And I don't give the Chinese much credit in this blog. The gerbils, officials say, are threatening the fragile desert ecosystem in the vast Xinjiang region.

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Rodents China Humane Tagged 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 16, 2011

Among mammals, bipedalism is found in several rodents, a number of marsupials, and one primate. Bipedalism is somewhat rare these days in the animal world. Facultative (occasional, used when needed) bipedalism occurs in one group of carnivores.

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Birds Marsupials Primates Whales 269

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

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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Geese Boars Hunting Serbia 173

10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2011

Because Short-eared Owls are most active at dawn and dusk when they hunt fields and marshes for the rodents that sustain them it is difficult to get images of them in daylight.

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Owls New York City Rodents New York 145

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2021

Giant anteaters, giant otters, giant armadillos, giant river turtles, giant termites and giant waterlilies that can sustain the weight of a human baby! Giant waterlilies at Karanambu Ranch.

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Guyana Otters South America Colombia 278

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Strictly speaking, Mammals of South Asia is not a field guide, because some larger groups (rodents, bats) cannot be identified down to a species level following the concise descriptions and a single illustration. Still, there should be no problem with larger species that allow for longer observation time (e.g.

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Mammals Asia Sri Lanka Bhutan 175

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

But not Lisa Kelly, who riffed on it and invented “ramousky,” which is a pinkie (just-born) mouse stuffed inside an adult mouse stuffed inside a rat, and evidently big fun for vultures (all rodents are deceased before the stuffing occurs). More slang?” asked Erin, who is primarily a turtle rehabber. Here’s one: ‘the turtle’s head exploded.’

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Turtles Turkey Rodents 211