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Browsing the archives for the American Bird Conservancy tag
30 Jan 12
23 Jan 12
Opponents of trap-neuter-return are long on rhetoric, but short on alternatives—at least ones they’ll discuss openly.
We just want the cats gone.
Yeah, well, I want a pony.
I don’t actually say that, of course. Not usually, anyhow—in part, because the two wishes are hardly comparable. If I really wanted a pony, I’d simply go buy one (a [...]
9 Jan 12
“I don’t want to be sort of a poodle dog when I’m out there, and a friendly sort of presence in people’s lives,” explained New York Times reporter David Carr in an October 2011 interview with Fresh Air host Terry Gross, “and then come back and do something that’s really mean or aggressive.”
“And if [...]
30 Dec 11
Referring to a particularly poor piece of journalism, a friend of mine suggested—recalling the irreverent moniker her late husband had given their own local paper—the newspaper in which it had appeared was perhaps best used for lining birdcages.
Twenty months into this blog, I’ve encountered my share of yellow journalism infecting both small-town weeklies and, with [...]
5 Dec 11
I’ve been a big fan of FixNation since contacting them, nearly a year ago, to clear up bogus allegations made in the Toronto Star by documentary filmmaker Maureen Palmer, who’d visited the clinic while filming Cat Crazed. The response I received was prompt and professional. And, it turns out, the beginning of an ongoing conversation.
Last [...]
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Posted in The Cat Debate
Tagged American Bird Conservancy, California Environmental Quality Act, Endangered Habitats League, feral cats, FixNation, Los Angeles Audubon Society, Moderncat Studio, Palos Verdes/South Bay Audubon Society, PetSmart Charities, Santa Monica Bay Audubon Society, TNR, Trap-Neuter-Return, Urban Wildlands Group
Tagged American Bird Conservancy, California Environmental Quality Act, Endangered Habitats League, feral cats, FixNation, Los Angeles Audubon Society, Moderncat Studio, Palos Verdes/South Bay Audubon Society, PetSmart Charities, Santa Monica Bay Audubon Society, TNR, Trap-Neuter-Return, Urban Wildlands Group
24 Nov 11
It’s always good to see the Humane Society of the United States supporting and promoting TNR. After all, it wasn’t all that long ago when HSUS was on the other side of the issue. In 1997, when the American Bird Conservancy launched its Cats Indoors! campaign, the organization was “singled out as its ‘principal partner [...]
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Posted in In the News, The Cat Debate, Threats to Wildlife
Tagged Alley Cat Allies, American Bird Conservancy, Becky Robinson, Hawaii, Humane Society of the United States, New Jersey Feral Cat & Wildlife Coalition, Nico Dauphiné, The Wildlife Society, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Wayne Pacelle
Tagged Alley Cat Allies, American Bird Conservancy, Becky Robinson, Hawaii, Humane Society of the United States, New Jersey Feral Cat & Wildlife Coalition, Nico Dauphiné, The Wildlife Society, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Wayne Pacelle
11 Nov 11
The American Bird Conservancy takes its plea for anti-TNR policies and feeding bans to the mayors of the country’s 50 largest cities. Just when cities are struggling to pay for essential services, animal control expenses would skyrocket.
Desperate times, it’s said, call for desperate measures.
Hence, the American Bird Conservancy’s latest stunt: calling “on the mayors of [...]
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Posted in In the News, Policy Issues
Tagged American Bird Conservancy, Darin Schroeder, feral cats, mayors, Trap-Neuter-Return
Tagged American Bird Conservancy, Darin Schroeder, feral cats, mayors, Trap-Neuter-Return
31 Oct 11
The H. Carl Moultrie Courthouse, where the Superior Court of the District of Columbia is located. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons and AgnosticPreachersKid.
After more than five months of delays, Nico Dauphine was, this afternoon in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, found guilty of attempted animal cruelty. (Sentencing hearing is scheduled for November [...]
24 Sep 11
Once again, the American Bird Conservancy is using scare tactics to gain support for their long-standing witch-hunt against free-roaming cats, this time suggesting a connection between TNR and rabies exposure. Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention demonstrate no such connection.
Maybe the folks at the American Bird Conservancy were simply feeling left out, [...]
29 Aug 11
For more than 20 years now, Gill’s classic text has been required reading for ornithology students. While the book’s attention to conservation issues has expanded over its three editions, its treatment of the impact of cats on bird populations reflects an unsettling shift away from science.
The hoards of students descending upon college campuses this fall [...]
13 Jul 11
By now, many—perhaps most—readers have already seen the segment of Monday night’s episode of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart in which correspondent Aasif Mandvi satirized the cat-bird debate (described all too accurately, I’m afraid, by Mandvi as an “intractable war”).
Interviewed for the piece were American Bird Conservancy president George Fenwick and Alley Cat Allies [...]
6 Jun 11
Coming up this Wednesday: “Impacts of Free Roaming Cats on Native Wildlife,” a Webinar sponsored by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Registration, from what I can tell, appears to be open to the public—though I’m still awaiting a confirmation e-mail (which will include, I hope, some clarification re: time zone for this “2:00–3:00 pm” [...]
14 Apr 11
In her recent attempt to “respond to recent comments and misinformation voiced by concerned citizens,” Anne Morkill, Refuge Manager for the Florida Keys National Wildlife Refuges, misrepresented both the rationale for, and implications of, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s indefensible Predator Management Plan. My response to Morkill’s opinion piece was published in [...]
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Posted in In the News, Policy Issues, Vox Felina
Tagged American Bird Conservancy, Anne Morkill, Florida Keys National Wildlife Refuges Complex Integrated Predator Management Plan, Jonathan Franzen, Key Largo Woodrat, Lower Keys marsh rabbit, Mesopredator Release, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Tagged American Bird Conservancy, Anne Morkill, Florida Keys National Wildlife Refuges Complex Integrated Predator Management Plan, Jonathan Franzen, Key Largo Woodrat, Lower Keys marsh rabbit, Mesopredator Release, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
8 Apr 11
“SF Weekly is San Francisco’s smartest publication. That’s because we take journalism seriously, but not so seriously that we let ourselves be guided by an agenda.”
At least that’s what the paper’s Website says.
Now, as somebody who reads SF Weekly only rarely, I want to be careful not to generalize. But if last week’s feature story [...]
26 Mar 11
Oh what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!
—Sir Walter Scott
Wind turbine near Walnut, Iowa. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons and Bill Whittaker.
Two stories from New York Times writer Elisabeth Rosenthal caught my eye this past Monday. The first, “Tweety Was Right: Cats Are a Bird’s No. 1 Enemy”—the latest recounting of [...]
1 Mar 11
After a while, I suppose, such things will no longer surprise me.
A couple weeks ago, the American Bird Conservancy released a statement in support of the Florida Keys National Wildlife Refuges Complex Integrated Predator Management Plan/Draft Environmental Assessment proposed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS):
“American Bird Conservancy, the nation’s leading bird conservation organization, [...]
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Posted in In the News, Policy Issues, Threats to Wildlife
Tagged American Bird Conservancy, Feral Cats and Their Management, Florida Keys National Wildlife Refuges Complex Integrated Predator Management Plan, Key Largo Woodrat, Lower Keys marsh rabbit, Nico Dauphiné, Steve Holmer, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Wisconsin Study
Tagged American Bird Conservancy, Feral Cats and Their Management, Florida Keys National Wildlife Refuges Complex Integrated Predator Management Plan, Key Largo Woodrat, Lower Keys marsh rabbit, Nico Dauphiné, Steve Holmer, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Wisconsin Study
10 Feb 11
Using Google to translate the page’s contents, it seems this bird—despite “mock[ing] the cat and with loud cries of diving at him from the branches of acacia”—was yet another one that got away.
In the third edition of his massive book Ornithology—“the classic text for the undergraduate ornithology course,” according to the description on Amazon.com—Frank Gill [...]
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Posted in Cats and Birds, Threats to Wildlife
Tagged American Bird Conservancy, Carolina Raptor Center, Cat Crazed, Cats Indoors!, Critical Assessment of Claims Regarding Management of Feral Cats by Trap-Neuter-Return, Frank B. Gill, Kays and DeWan, Nico Dauphiné, Philip J. Baker, Travis Longcore
Tagged American Bird Conservancy, Carolina Raptor Center, Cat Crazed, Cats Indoors!, Critical Assessment of Claims Regarding Management of Feral Cats by Trap-Neuter-Return, Frank B. Gill, Kays and DeWan, Nico Dauphiné, Philip J. Baker, Travis Longcore
25 Jan 11
Among the many news stories, research studies, and government reports brought to my attention last week was an article in Monday’s Toronto Star (thanks, once again, to the good folks at Alley Cat Rescue, who routinely put Google Alerts to shame!). What I find compelling about the article is not its central story (another community [...]
22 Dec 10
Smithsonian magazine is, according to its website, “created for modern, well-rounded individuals with diverse interests” and “chronicles the arts, history, sciences and popular culture of the times.” Jess Righthand’s recent article, “The World’s Worst Invasive Mammals,” seems—despite its inclusion in the online edition’s “Science & Nature” section—better suited for the pop culture category.
Indeed, the story [...]
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Posted in In the News, Public Health Threats, Rabies, The Cat Debate, Toxoplasma
Tagged additive predation, American Bird Conservancy, compensatory predation, David Jessup, Feral Cats and Their Management, Jess Righthand, Merritt Clifton, Nico Dauphiné, One Billion Birds, Peter Marra, Smithsonian Magazine, The American Bird Conservancy Guide to Bird Conservation, Toxoplasma gondii, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Tagged additive predation, American Bird Conservancy, compensatory predation, David Jessup, Feral Cats and Their Management, Jess Righthand, Merritt Clifton, Nico Dauphiné, One Billion Birds, Peter Marra, Smithsonian Magazine, The American Bird Conservancy Guide to Bird Conservation, Toxoplasma gondii, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
13 Dec 10
For years now, the American Bird Conservancy (ABC) has been promoting erroneous and misleading information in their tireless effort to vilify free-roaming cats. No organization has been more effective at working the anti-TNR pseudoscience into a message neatly packaged for the mainstream media, and eventual consumption by the general public. Speaking to the Wall Street [...]
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Posted in Cats and Birds, In the News
Tagged American Bird Conservancy, Animal People, Ascension Island, Christopher Lepczyk, Cole Hawkins, Coleman & Temple, Daniel Lebbin, Feral Cats and Their Management, George Fenwick, Macquarie Island, Marion Island, Merritt Clifton, Michael Parr, Nico Dauphiné, Stephens Island wren, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Wisconsin Study
Tagged American Bird Conservancy, Animal People, Ascension Island, Christopher Lepczyk, Cole Hawkins, Coleman & Temple, Daniel Lebbin, Feral Cats and Their Management, George Fenwick, Macquarie Island, Marion Island, Merritt Clifton, Michael Parr, Nico Dauphiné, Stephens Island wren, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Wisconsin Study
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