10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
The first reintroductions took place in 2003, and in 2008 some of the released birds started to nest on a cliff just outside the town of Vejar de la Frontera, where I’ve been lucky enough to see them, and where most of the photographs accompanying this piece were taken (in April 2019 and February 2024). Here they were easy to overlook.
Critter News
APRIL 24, 2012
But the disease has dealt a crippling blow to the industry in the past, especially when foreign countries refused to import American beef when mad cow was first uncovered in 2003. The sale of cattle and calves was a $1.82-billion Beef cattle are raised in nearly every California county. The state also hosts 1.84
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 2, 2015
When Nadeem and Mohammed first began in 2003, few veterinarians would suture the wounds of birds, saying they were too small. When a tree filled with nestling Cattle Egrets collapsed, 60 orphans took up temporary residence in the house.
10,000 Birds
MAY 22, 2011
There had been cattle in the area and we kept coming across bizarre butterfly circles. All we can think is that they were attracted to an area where there had been cattle urine and they were getting the natural salts. It seems the most likely answer, but who knows!
10,000 Birds
JUNE 4, 2020
Published in the Canoeist, UK, July 2003. Cattle Egret 16. …or a croc was swimming right under the bottom of the kayak…. Contemplating the food chain and my position in it, I kept my big mouth shut. Cover: 20 years younger version of me. Date: January 24th, 2001 (08:30-11:00h). Habitats: riparian woodland (mostly Combretum sp.),
10,000 Birds
JULY 28, 2011
So barren in fact it is not uncommon to find this grassland species occupying the same habitat as cattle or areas with high degree of human disturbance. This was back in 2003 so it is hard to say where those numbers fall now. These Mountain Plovers , as you can see, are so cryptic in their environment.
10,000 Birds
JULY 20, 2018
Beset by poaching by cattle ranchers, habitat loss, DDT, and lead poisoning (from consuming shotgun pellets embedded in the condor’s carrion fare), populations of this enormous New World vulture fell into a serious decline in the twentieth century. A portion of all draft and bottle sales of Condor Kolsch will be donated to these programs.
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