Sentences with phrase «non-native black rats»

Once an island with no natural predators for nesting birds, invasive non-native black rats were inadvertently introduced to the island from ships visiting the islands in the 1940's.

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Such impacts would also likely affect the Key Largo cotton mouse [28 — 29], Key Largo woodrat [30 — 31], and silver rice rat [32 — 33], all of which USFWS identifies as species of particular concern, and which are threatened — either through predation or competition — by non-native rats such as the black rat.
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