Michael Avery

In this photo released from the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Michael Avery, a wildlife biologist with the United States Department of Agriculture, holds an invasive monk parakeet at the USDA’s Florida Field Station in Gainesville – Tuesday, July 1, 2008. Avery, who holds a courtesy faculty position with IFAS, is testing contraceptives to curb the parakeet population in South Florida, where their nests have caused outages and fires for electric utilities for years.

(Tyler Jones, University of Florida/IFAS)
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