My first article for TheConversationUK #plastics @ebdonana.bsky.social theconversation.com/how-birds-ar...

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3. Cats have worse and shorter lifes if they roam outdoors The domestic cat is one of the most frequently roadkilled mammal worlwide, and by far the first carnivore species in that list (photo commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ca...)

2. Outdoor cats exchange diseases with other animals and with people. There you have Toxocara, bird flu or feline leukemia And then there is Toxoplasma gondii,a truly huge, though overlooked public health issue (and an important conservation one too) theconversation.com/toxoplasma-t...

Today is (another) #Worldcatday A good day to remember to keep cats indoors, for 3 main reasons 1. Cats kill a lot of animals. Really, a lot of them There is plenty of scientific information on that. I am just posting works of great 19th c Swedish painter Bruno Lijefors, an amazing nature observer

Thanks for featuring our work! Across 6 Italian cities (220 point counts; breeding + winter), we find that established parakeets tend to expand the functional trait space of urban bird communities, consistent with filling underused niche space.