Wildlife Archives - Give A Shit About Nature

Windows kill a staggering number of birds every year. Feeders, if neglected, can spread disease through visiting flocks. Outdoor cats [...]

For garden birds visiting a feeder, an occasional piece of bread probably won’t cause lasting harm, but it’s also doing n [...]

From the jump, I’ll tell you this: touching a toad won’t give you warts. That particular myth has been around long enough [...]

If you want hummingbirds in your yard, the instinct is to look up a list of plants, buy whatever’s available at the garden cent [...]

If you’ve ever discovered your trash scattered across the driveway after confidently installing a “raccoon-proof” l [...]

If you’ve spotted a bobcat in your yard or on a trail recently, you’re not alone. Bobcats are the most common wild cat in [...]

An oyster reef is exactly what it sounds like: a living structure built from oysters, layer upon layer, shell upon shell, growing tog [...]

Somewhere between pop culture and a bad encounter on a back porch, bats became the animal people are most instinctively afraid of — [...]

Opossums have the unfortunate combination of looking like something nightmares invented and behaving, when cornered, in the most alar [...]

Most people who use rat poison are thinking about one thing: getting rid of rats. That’s fair enough. Rats are a real problem, [...]