Wildlife Officials Plan Assault On Rat Island ; Plan Could Rid Site of Rodents, Let Seabirds, Songbirds Return
The Record, Bergen County, NJ › January 17, 2008
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska More than 200 years ago, rats jumped ship for Rat Island.
The muscular Norway rat climbed ashore on the rugged, uninhabited island in far southwestern Alaska in 1780 after a rodent-infested Japanese ship ran aground. It was the first time rats had made it to Alaska.See the full content of this document
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Wildlife Officials Plan Assault On Rat Island ; Plan Could Rid Site of Rodents, Let Seabirds, Songbirds Return
Since then, Rat Island, as the piece of rock was dubbed by a sea captain in the 1800s, has gone eerily silent. The sounds of birds are missing.
That is because the rats feed on eggs, chicks and adult seabirds, wh...See the full content of this document
