Birds and rodents, video

This video is about wildlife in the Netherlands. Birds like song thrush and reed bunting; and small rodents.

Gerrie van der Meulen made the video.

Giving credence to the saying, ‘While the cat’s away, the mice will play,’ a new study indicates that pumas and medium-sized carnivores lie low when they sense the presence of humans, which frees up the landscape for rodents to forage more brazenly: here.

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