They kill 31 million small mammals and 68 million birds a year, including threatened species such as the Florida scrub jay and the Lower Keys
marsh rabbit.
The first thing Poncho did was chase a
marsh rabbit. During that first year, he also chased deer.
Native rabbits are widely distributed across Georgia and are represented by the more abundant eastern cottontail (Sylvilagus floridanus) and the less abundant swamp rabbit (Sylvilagus aquaticus) and
marsh rabbit (Sylvilagus palustris).
The first time I ever ate "
marsh rabbit" was at the home of my fiancee, whose family trapped them along the Blackstone watershed.
The unique plants and animals range from delicate flowers to huge whales, from Caribbean corals to ancient cactus plants, and from the gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) to the lower keys
marsh rabbit (Sylvilagus palustris hefneri).
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), for one, says it recognizes that native species such as beach mice, the Lower Keys
marsh rabbit, terns and other ground-nesting birds, as well as hatchling sea turtles, wouldn't be endangered if only people had managed the Earth more responsibly.
My mother told me that from the Depression through World War II, muskrat was sold as "
marsh rabbit" at the old Worcester Market at Main and Chandler streets.
Farther `down the island chain, the federal government has forced builders to stop projects in the path of the endangered Lower Keys
marsh rabbit. But the feds are virtually powerless when it comes to protecting the rabbits from residents' free-ranging house cats, dogs and those ubiquitous suburban freeloaders, raccoons, which are among the rabbits' other threats, according to the U.S.
Sylvilagus palustris - a wood rabbit of marshy coastal areas from North Carolina to Florida