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Cow Birds

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home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds , Terminology / Cow Birds Cow Birds By Rick • March 22, 2011 • 1 comment Tweet Share So what do Buffleheads and Bitterns and Hornbills have in common? They’re all named for livestock.

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Whooping Crane at Joe Overstreet Road

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Though Whooping Cranes have recovered greatly since their nadir of 23 total Whooping Cranes in 1941 as of 2011 there were only about 600. The first farm on the left, where all the cattle are? He’s usually way back from the road, but he feeds from the cattle trough so he sticks around. That number has continued to shrink.

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The 2011 Cyprus Bird Race

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Highlights there was a Garganey , 75+ Cattle Egret , 10 Purple Heron , 5+ Penduline Tit , 2 Night Heron , a Great Reed Warbler , and a Water Rail. With Melis and Lefkios joining us, we set off for our Big Day. Our first destination was at Aradippou, by the Partenitis Dam, which enabled us to reach 22 by 06:43.

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The Amazing Exploding Dove Meets Montana

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We remember starlings not skylarks, House Sparrows not Eurasian Tree Sparrows , Cattle Egrets not… well, whatever we’ve forgotten because it didn’t do as well as the Cattle Egrets. Nicole Mar 11th, 2011 at 10:49 pm I’ve always like the Collared doves. Jochen Mar 15th, 2011 at 4:29 am Ack!!

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Answer to the Diabolical Avian ID Quiz: From A to Z in Queens

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Or These Blasts From The Past For Medicinal Use Only Wake up and smell the frangipani Cattle Egret at Floyd Bennett Field, Brooklyn There’s Oil in Them Thar Birds! 4 Responses to “Answer to the Diabolical Avian ID Quiz: From A to Z in Queens&# Kathleen Mar 20th, 2011 at 3:58 pm Diabolical indeed, thanks for the fun quiz!

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Licking Clay: the Macaws of Tambopata, Peru

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The primary reasons for the decline of macaws and parrots are many but habitat loss due to logging; clear cutting for crops and cattle ranching; and capture for the pet trade rank among the most threatening. Mar 7th, 2011 at 1:09 pm [.] Coreys 2011 Year List - 228 Copyright © 2011 10,000 Birds. in south-eastern Peru.

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The Birds of New Jersey: Status and Distribution – A Review by a Sometime Jersey Birder

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That Cattle Egret I found in Somerset County, August 2009? Princeton University Press, 2011. Eastern Kingbird is a common and widespread summer resident, and a common fall and fairly common spring migrant. Used in conjunction with the species distribution maps, this is a helpful feature in evaluating field observations. by William J.