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.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 27, 2015
As of 2008 only 31 of the 289 cranes released into central Florida were still alive. One of the remaining birds is known to frequent Joe Overstreet Road, a dirt road that runs a few miles through sod farms and cattle pastures between Canoe Creek Road and Lake Kissimmee in Keenansville,about an hour south of Orlando. He likes it there.
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Critter News
APRIL 24, 2012
The sale of cattle and calves was a $1.82-billion billion industry in California 2008 and fifth among the state’s top 20 commodities. Beef cattle are raised in nearly every California county. Nationally, California ranks behind Texas, Kansas and Nebraska in total cattle numbers. The state also hosts 1.84
10,000 Birds
MARCH 22, 2011
It didn’t take much imagination to name Cowbirds or Cattle Egrets or Cattle Tyrants , but there’s more fantasy, even more wit, involved in the naming of other bovine birds. Where Are You Birding This First Weekend of July 2008? They’re all named for livestock. at Princeton University in 1990.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 15, 2018
Yours truly counting birds in the Pastures of Great Bustard from the Russian made UAZ 4×4 in February 2008. In breeding season grazing cattle may walk through the nest, breaking the eggs, while wild and domestic pigs may eat both eggs and chicks. What treats do they face?
Critter News
DECEMBER 6, 2008
4, 2008 by the Environmental Protection Agency to charge a fee for air-polluting cows and hogs. It would require farms or ranches with more than 25 dairy cows, 50 beef cattle or 200 hogs to pay an annual fee of about $175 for each dairy cow, $87.50 per head of beef cattle and $20 for each hog.
10,000 Birds
JULY 17, 2012
Back in October 2008, in his first field job out of school, he helped a Cornell PhD student, Karl, with his dissertation on vocal communication in Green-rumped Parrotlets Forpus passerinus. Naturally, we wanted to hear more about parrotlets, so Nick graciously shared the beautiful photo-essay below.
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