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Whatever your views on outdoor cats, it’s unavoidable that indoor cats are safer to birds – a study from 2013 found that domestic cats kill billions of birds and mammals each year.
McCulloch says people can keep cats indoors, turn off lights at night, and put decal stickers or paint patterns on windows to help keep birds safe. Markings should be close together – about two ...
Bird flu is back in the news once again for a distressing reason that has pet owners across the US on high alert. A virulent strain of the highly-pathogenic H5N1 avian flu has infected hundreds of ...
Migrants tend to travel away from polar and temperate zones in the winter because of low temperatures and shortage of food in their breeding areas. [1] [2] During spring migration, birds return to their breeding sites to exploit the temporary superabundance of food, allowing them to raise more young. [3]
In the winter, when many of these birds are migrating, farmers are now flooding their fields in order to provide temporary wetlands for birds to rest and feed before continuing their journey. [146] Rice is a major crop produced along this flyway, and flooded rice paddies have shown to be important areas for at least 169 different bird species ...
Many northern birds migrate to winter within the breeding range in central and western Mexico, though some remain further north. The common poorwill is the only bird known to go into torpor for extended periods (weeks to months). [ 2 ]
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In the U.S. state of Colorado 519 species of birds have been documented as of September 2022 according to the Colorado Bird Records Committee (CBRC) of Colorado Field Ornithologists. [ 1 ] This list is presented in the taxonomic sequence of the Check-list of North and Middle American Birds , 7th edition through the 63rd Supplement, published by ...