Sentences with phrase «threaten wild bird»

Cats, the organizations argue, not only threaten wild bird and mammal populations, but also transmit diseases and parasites to humans, citing a variety of studies.

After more than three decades on the brink of extinction, the California condor (Gymnogyps californianus)-- the largest and most threatened wild bird species in the United States — is making a modest recovery, thanks to intensive captive breeding and medical intervention.

Not exact matches

Chinese conservation measures to protect the charismatic giant panda in the wild have also benefitted other threatened species, including birds, mammals and amphibians, according to new Duke University - led study.

Many wild populations of animals and plants are profoundly threatened by exotic diseases — chytrid fungus in frogs, sylvatic plague in black - footed ferrets, Rapid Ohi'a Death in the keystone ohi'a trees of Hawaii, avian malaria in the forest birds of Hawaii.

When O'Brien develops her own life - threatening illness, the biologist who saved the life of a helpless baby bird is herself rescued from death by the insistent love and courage of this wild animal.

The bird does not breed well in captivity, so an ongoing (and illegal) trade in smuggled birds for the pet trade continues to threaten the wild population — a fact that would - be owners should consider.

It is, and we must address it, just as we must address the threat posed by all invasive species that stifle threatened local native species - both introduced ones like cats, rats, foxes, rabbits, pigs, mynah birds (I've given up hoping cattle and sheep farming will ever be addressed, and I've had the Man From Snowy River quoted at me often enough by misty eyed horse lovers to know the wild brumbies must continue to run free and destroy the mountain country for everything else before dying a horrible, slow death from starvation in the cold, Winter snow) and native ones like noisy miners and eastern rosellas.