"Wild life in the city" Topic

Now oslo propper has 550 000 inhabitens, and the metropol has about 1.5 million

But still you have so many animals in and around the city.

You have ofcoruse thusands of dogs and cats, the odd pet pig or Polecat.

But even in the city center you got lots of wild life, in birds you got Jackdaw, Hooded Crow, ravens, mallard ducks, canada geese and big as swans, as well as swallows, sparrows, finches and pigdes hawks ect.
For mammals you have sevral types of Squirrel, rats, mice, bats, and badgers.

If you look to to the more out laying parts you get foxes, beavers, even moose and deer just 15 minutes from the city center, you also get Martens, hares owles and other animals.
20 minutes from oslo you even get sea eagles(returning to the oslo fjord after something like 50 year absence.

Thats a lot for a big city.
I keep thinking about big birds like condors or vulture.
But then I realise that I got swans just out side my door, and they a even bigger then those birds.

There was fresh fewmet in my yard this weekend when I cut my grass. I'm likewise 15 minutes from the center of a city with a population of half a million. I like the deer, even if they eat my bedding plants. But it gets wilder than that some places:

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Norwegian foxes… brings a marvelous image to mind…

The "wildlife" isn't just animals. The North American forest is alive and well in the form of urban roadside and backyard trees. While visiting a friend over the weekend, the view from the third story apartment balcony included only two adjacent buildings in the middle of a city of 100,000 people (which is part of the several millions who live in the SF Bay Area). Dozens of trees made up the rest of the view, which only extended a hundred yards in any direction, if that.

The animal life in that area includes deer, coyote, opossum, skunk, racoon, and a great many birds, both fixed and migratory. That doesn't even begin to include the great numbers of mice, rats, and "domesticated" species of cat, dog, horse, and cattle that one can find in or close to these same cities. Even San Francisco itself has a startling variety in its limits or very nearby. Between Golden Gate Park, the foggy hills of the Peninsula, and the largely natural hills of Marin and Napa counties just over the Golden Gate Bridge, not to mention the colony of seals that has taken over one of the Piers (41, IIRC), the evidence seems to be that wildlife in general (specific species may and will suffer, yes) is only put out where mankind is *expanding*. Once we've settled in and stopped mucking about with bulldozers, the wildlife returns to the niches we either leave untouched or create anew.

Hmm, out here 60 miles from the city we get bears (one has been hanging around out neighbor;'s house recently), mountain lions, coyotes, bobcats, foxes, deer (hanging out around my pomegranite tree – get away you brats!) plus all the little rodentia and the like. Birds include Red Tailed Hawks, Falcons, Great Blue Herons,plus the little birds like Woodpeackers, Finches, and humming birds.
Reptiles include rattlesnakes and various lizards (mostly of the "cat food" variety :-(. Then there are the toads and frogs…

Here *in* the city we have the usual small rodents and mammals, plus deer, geese and blue herons. Supposedly there's a wildcat of some size in the woods near my husband's office.

But still you have so many animals in and around the city.

Most animals seem to do just fine around urban/suburban/light industrial land. AFAICT, it's farming that wipes them out.
-Kle.