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, [...]
Browsing the archives for the American Bird Conservancy tag
1 Mar 11
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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
1 Dec 10
“Have you seen this already? This is awful.”
That’s what somebody posted on the Vox Felina Facebook page late last night—along with a link to an MSNBC news story. The headline was an attention-getter, no doubt about it: “Report: Kill feral cats to control their colonies.”
But beyond that, MSNBC had practically no details. A little digging [...]
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Posted in In the News, Research Protocol, Threats to Wildlife
Tagged American Bird Conservancy, Christopher Lepczyk, Cole Carlson Hawkins, Coleman & Temple, Crooks and Soule, Feral Cats and Their Management, Linda Winter, Merritt Clifton, Mike Fitzgerald, Pamela Jo Hatley, Paul Leyhausen, Stephen Vantassel, The Wildlife Society, Toxoplasma gondii, Toxoplasmosis
Tagged American Bird Conservancy, Christopher Lepczyk, Cole Carlson Hawkins, Coleman & Temple, Crooks and Soule, Feral Cats and Their Management, Linda Winter, Merritt Clifton, Mike Fitzgerald, Pamela Jo Hatley, Paul Leyhausen, Stephen Vantassel, The Wildlife Society, Toxoplasma gondii, Toxoplasmosis
29 Nov 10
The second in the Framed series is from the recently released book, The American Bird Conservancy Guide to Bird Conservation.
The book’s authors actually have very little to say about TNR, assuming, I suppose, that the accompanying photos say it all. The caption for this one reads (somewhat incongruously, if you ask me): “Managed feral cat [...]
17 Nov 10
That the ancient Egyptians worshiped cats as gods is, today, common knowledge. Just as their regal little bodies were preserved through mummification, their likenesses were preserved in tomb paintings.
But the cat’s image has not always been portrayed with such reverence. “To the medieval mind,” writes naturalist and biologist Roger Tabor, “there was a sinister side [...]
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Posted in Cats and Birds, Framed, Vox Felina
Tagged American Bird Conservancy, AmmoLand, cat eating prey, Roger Tabor
Tagged American Bird Conservancy, AmmoLand, cat eating prey, Roger Tabor
22 Oct 10
Another study demonstrates that the majority of pet cats spend their time indoors.
In my previous post on the subject, I somehow overlooked Linda Lord’s paper, “Attitudes toward and perceptions of free-roaming cats among individuals living in Ohio.” [1] In it, Lord, Assistant Professor in Ohio State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine, presents the results of [...]
26 Sep 10
Results from the American Pet Products Association’s 2009–2010 National Pet Owners Survey suggest that cats in this country are spending more time indoors than ever before. Although the proportion of owners keeping their cats inside at night has remained relatively steady since 1998 (at approximately 66%), their has been a 14% increase in daytime confinement [...]
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Posted in Cats and Birds, In the News
Tagged American Bird Conservancy, American Pet Products Association, birds killed by cats, Cats Indoors!, Christopher Lepczyk, Coleman & Temple, compensatory predation, free-roaming cats, Gary Patronek, Linda Winter, Nico Dauphiné, One Billion Birds, Wisconsin Study
Tagged American Bird Conservancy, American Pet Products Association, birds killed by cats, Cats Indoors!, Christopher Lepczyk, Coleman & Temple, compensatory predation, free-roaming cats, Gary Patronek, Linda Winter, Nico Dauphiné, One Billion Birds, Wisconsin Study
8 Sep 10
Relative to other studies of the domestic cat’s predatory habits, Carol Fiore’s 2000 thesis work is cited only occasionally in the literature. [1, 2] Indeed, it might easily go unnoticed were it not for its inclusion in the American Bird Conservancy’s brochure Domestic Cat Predation on Birds and Other Wildlife, and the fact that Fiore [...]
1 Sep 10
The American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) recently made available online (via downloadable PDFs) several of its articles related to free-roaming cats/TNR. Although abstracts have been online for some time, access to the full text for these papers has generally required either a subscription to the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association or access to [...]
3 Aug 10
Listening to NPR’s On the Media this weekend, I was struck by a story (first broadcast in 2006) about how certain “sticky” numbers—however dubious—find their way into the media landscape and beyond, as On the Media co-host Brooke Gladstone noted:
“Four years ago, we delved into the mysterious number, said to be 50,000, of child predators [...]
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Posted in Cats and Birds, In the News, Population Estimates, Research Protocol
Tagged American Bird Conservancy, Audubon Society, birds killed by cats, Churcher & Lawton, Coleman & Temple, Critical Assessment of Claims Regarding Management of Feral Cats by Trap-Neuter-Return, Ellen Perry Berkeley, English village study, Mike Fitzgerald, Nico Dauphiné, One Billion Birds, stray pet advocacy, Wisconsin Study
Tagged American Bird Conservancy, Audubon Society, birds killed by cats, Churcher & Lawton, Coleman & Temple, Critical Assessment of Claims Regarding Management of Feral Cats by Trap-Neuter-Return, Ellen Perry Berkeley, English village study, Mike Fitzgerald, Nico Dauphiné, One Billion Birds, stray pet advocacy, Wisconsin Study
18 Jun 10
According to an AP story posted on MSNBC, city officials in Barre, VT, are considering a leash law for cats—effectively prohibiting them from roaming. Such stories tend to vary only in their specifics; quotes from embattled citizens, and feline references that are more dismissive than clever (e.g., in Barre, the debate “sparked a hissing match”) [...]
24 May 10
In April, Conservation Biology published a comment authored by Christopher A. Lepczyk, Nico Dauphiné, David M. Bird, Sheila Conant, Robert J. Cooper, David C. Duffy, Pamela Jo Hatley, Peter P. Marra, Elizabeth Stone, and Stanley A. Temple. In it, the authors “applaud the recent essay by Longcore et [...]
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Posted in Cats and Birds, Research Protocol, The Cat Debate, Threats to Wildlife
Tagged American Bird Conservancy, Cats Indoors!, Christopher A. Lepczyk, Churcher & Lawton, Coleman & Temple, Conser, David A. Jessup, Laurie D. Goldstein, Linda Winter, Nico Dauphiné, One Billion Birds, Stanley A. Temple, Travis Longcore, Wisconsin Study
Tagged American Bird Conservancy, Cats Indoors!, Christopher A. Lepczyk, Churcher & Lawton, Coleman & Temple, Conser, David A. Jessup, Laurie D. Goldstein, Linda Winter, Nico Dauphiné, One Billion Birds, Stanley A. Temple, Travis Longcore, Wisconsin Study
5 May 10
The second in a series of posts that breaks down my critique of the essay “Critical Assessment of Claims Regarding Management of Feral Cats by Trap-Neuter-Return” (Conservation Biology, Volume 23, No. 4, 887–894) by Travis Longcore, Catherine Rich, and Lauren M. Sullivan.
Like so many others interested in blaming cats for declining bird [...]
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Posted in Cats and Birds
Tagged American Bird Conservancy, Coleman & Temple, Critical Assessment of Claims Regarding Management of Feral Cats by Trap-Neuter-Return, Ellen Perry Berkeley, James Tantillo, Mike Fitzgerald, stray pet advocacy, Travis Longcore, Urban Wildlands Group, Wisconsin Study
Tagged American Bird Conservancy, Coleman & Temple, Critical Assessment of Claims Regarding Management of Feral Cats by Trap-Neuter-Return, Ellen Perry Berkeley, James Tantillo, Mike Fitzgerald, stray pet advocacy, Travis Longcore, Urban Wildlands Group, Wisconsin Study
30 Apr 10
The American Bird Conservancy (ABC) is among the most visible organizations to oppose TNR—and put PR ahead of the relevant science (which ABC has been doing for years now).
ABC was one (along with the L.A. Audubon Society and Urban Wildlands Group) of several petitioners in the case that eventually led to an injunction against publicly [...]
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