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RE: A couple random shots of some NA Rats

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Posted by: tbrock at Sun Oct 10 20:28:34 2010   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by tbrock ]  
   

>>" I watched a meahllmorum (southern emoryi) clean out the enclosed gutters of a patio a while back. It put away all of the baby birds of two swallow nests!"
>>That is so cool, Toby.
>>.
>>Whenever I talk with the general public about these animals, I play up rodent control, and play down bird eating......
>>However, stomach content studies of Rat Snakes, usually have a good percentage of avian prey...
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>>Regards, Bill McGighan

I do the same, Bill - but the owner of the patio was not upset about the snake eating the baby birds. The birds make a mess of the patio - and the adult birds will be back again next season to make more any way. I have found the great majority of that subspecies on the ground, and have found them killing rodents more often than birds.
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-Toby Brock
Southwestern Center for Herpetological Research

   

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