Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ames!haven!adm!cmcl2!rocky8!cucard!ccnysci!christ From: christ@ccnysci.UUCP (Chris Thompson) Newsgroups: rec.birds Subject: Re: OUTDOOR Bird Plunder Summary: missing info Message-ID: <3783@ccnysci.UUCP> Date: 7 Dec 89 04:06:42 GMT References: <853@wrgate.WR.TEK.COM> <1263@uwm.edu> <929@wrgate.WR.TEK.COM> <3781@ccnysci.UUCP> Organization: City College of New York Lines: 25 In article <3781@ccnysci.UUCP>, christ@ccnysci.UUCP (Chris Thompson) writes: :> Refuge. If you look in the publication, "Annual Piping Plover and Colonial :> Waterbird Survey" published by the Seatuck Organization (part of the Cornell :> Univ. Laboratory of Ornithology) you will see that predation by :> cats, rats, and :> seagulls is one of the worst things terns and plovers have to deal with. :> I know that the Bahama Parrot, an endangered subspecies of :> the Amazon Parrot whose :> only range is on 2 islands in the Bahamas, had virtually zero nesting success :> in the last 2 years. Cause: cats. (Bahama parrots are also unique in that :> they are the only ground-nesting parrot- they nest in limestone cavities). Sorry for the editor screw-up. Also- references cam be emailed on request. The above is how the original posting should have read. Also, I apologize if I waxed a little too vitriolic in the original. Cats who kill my birds (oops-my 'study subjects') are a VERY sore point with me. Same with dogs, gulls, rats, snakes, what have you. Chris -- Chris Thompson [What does not kill us, pisses us off!!]