10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2023

Cattle Egrets are thoroughly modern birds – they were among the first species to ditch mailed letters for faxes, then switched to email early, and now (at least in China) mostly communicate by WeChat. They are also early adopters with regard to their foraging – nowadays mostly following tractors rather than cattle.

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Birds Eggs Breeders Breeding 130

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2021

I guess the whole point about this band name is to suggest -ironically, of course – utter blandness. Cattle Egrets have perfected that smudgy look. The Oriental Dollarbird is of course named after the early US explorer Alexander Dollar (1713-1788), incidentally the same person who also gave the name to the US currency.

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Birds LACS France Japan 253

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

On a visit in October 2022, I found ibises feeding with cattle in scruffy roadside paddocks adjacent to the marismas ( photographs below ). They can also be seen elsewhere in the area but particularly on the pastures along the A-2231 coastal road towards Zahara, and on local golf courses. Here they were easy to overlook.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 27, 2015

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. So, of course, I reached Lake Kissimmee without a Whooping Crane sighting. He likes it there.

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Cattle Florida Bald Eagle Endangered Species 216

10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2023

And of course, the photos here show a female, as far as I can tell. Of course, this factoid should be presented with a photo of a male, not a female rosefinch. Of course, for the birds involved, this often leads to death. Apparently, this name is derived from the well-ordered patterns of the male.

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Birds Blackbirds Indonesia Bhutan 224

10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2020

Having observed the Cattle Egret in breeding plumage at the Derby Poo Ponds on June 19th we found ourselves at Windjana Gorge first thing the following morning. Sometimes everything appears normal, but of course it is far from normal. As we all well know there is something very different about 2020.

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2020 Australia Cattle Groups 264

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Of course, we did, soaking in that slate blue beauty long enough to observe a successful hunt and more of its rangy, awkward flight. We had to search a little longer than Herbert may have wanted, but our first Shoebill sighting obscured any memory of effort or anxiety. The mighty Shoebill.

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Uganda Africa Birds Penguins 287

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 25, 2018

Of course there are plenty of Red-tailed Hawks ( Buteo jamaicensis ) around. Check out this image of a Great Egret ( Ardea alba ), Snowy Egret ( Egretta thula ) and Cattle Egret ( Bubulcus ibis ) together. This juvenile was photographed on the auto tour route at Colusa NWR.

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Wildlife Sacramento Bald Eagle Falcons 102

10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2013

The farmers, who specialize in silage (grains grown for cattle feed), wait a little longer to harvest their crops, giving young birds the time to fledge and move on. Of course, the best solution would be for the birds to avoid nesting in farmland at all.

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Blackbirds California Cattle Farming 197

10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2022

This is also why you very rarely find a photo of a giraffe on top of one of these posts – the other reason of course being that a giraffe photo would be relatively pointless in a birding blog. When Cattle Egrets go to the local discotheque, they tend to overdo their makeup a bit. It is sometimes necessary to find food though.

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Singapore Birds Mountain Goats Giraffes 147

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2012

Of course we’ve all experienced the excruciating opposite of such an excursion, but when waves of new birds practically clamor for attention in quick succession, the feeling is exhilarating. Have you ever enjoyed one of those brilliant birding expeditions, the outing where every target species takes its cue with machine precision?

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Trinidad Birds Fast Food Cattle 189

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2015

Heading south on a good surfaced road, we made slow progress through the herds of cattle, donkeys and goats that thronged the highway, until we finally reached the land of the Konso. Quality time was spent with a friendly Hamar family at their homestead of grass huts surrounding their cattle corral.

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Ethiopia Sudan Leopards Birds 252

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2019

And of course, there are Cattle Egrets ( Bubulcus ibis ) and several species of cowbirds that rarely stray too far from livestock. Of course, at Birds and Booze we advise limiting one’s ingestion of “Bobolinks” to this excellent saison. For most of history, beer has thrived in agrarian settings, too.

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Vermont Belgium Farming Europe 123

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 23, 2017

The real shock came, when at the last minute, I realized that they were not Greater Egrets , nor the smaller Snowy Egrets , but Cattle Egrets – Bubulcus ibis. With one chance to fire off a quick shot, my camera fixed with the 500MM lens, thru the trees over my head, I was rewarded with a blurry, terrible shot, of Cattle Egrets !

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Cattle Mexico Cows Game 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2012

The population of parrotlets they studied was located on one of the many huge hatos (cattle ranches) in the Venezuelan llanos, a vast swath of flat flooded savannah in the central third of the country that drains into the Rio Orinoco. Over the course of the next several days, these pin feathers emerge and – poof!

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Eggs Venezuela Porcupines 2008 269

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2022

Of course, on Chongming, the Chinese Pond Heron is very common. but on the one hand, this is not a sci-fi blog and I am not interested in science fiction (excluding of course Douglas Adams), and on the other hand, the answer from my side would be “no” anyway. Chinese Pond Herons also grow on trees.

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Birds South Korea Japan Abandon 162

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Upland Sandpipers were seen almost daily, on posts, in tall grass, in trees, and, of course, flying away from us. . In addition, of course, to birds like Baird’s Sparrow, Chestnut-collared Longspur, and Sharp-tailed Grouse (all of which were life birds for me, and all of which I failed to get decent photos).

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North Dakota Birds Sparrows Blackbirds 156

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Of course the water will have been evaporating daily, but it was more than appreciated by the local bird-life. Cattle have been in the area and so there will be small remaining pools from their hoof prints if rain does not come to the area soon just like last time. Spinifex Pigeons cautiously working their way down to the water.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

The higher ground under the fence offered refuge to Black-winged Stilt , Red-kneed Dotterels , Common Greenshank , Marsh Sandpipers , Sharp-tailed Sandpipers , Red-capped Plovers and of course more ducks! They were busy feeding around the cattle water trough that the cattle can’t get to unless they want wet hooves!

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Barn Owls Cattle Ducks Reptiles 209

10,000 Birds

JULY 26, 2014

Of course, there’s no such thing as a truly free market and even the natural world is subject to regulation. – Acclimatisation Societies of New Zealand – The Cattle Egret Expansion – Feral Cats Are An Invasive Species in North America (and elsewhere) – It’s a Myth – Isn’t It?

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Species Feral Cats Feral Miami 160

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

A local cattle station out of town received 652mm in the same 24 hour period, so we got off lightly! The erosion is severe in many areas and of course we now have some health warnings! Of course all of the muddy water is already full of tadpoles and therefore the birds are moving in. Erosion under the bike path and bridge.

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Parrots Cattle Breeding Ducks 248

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 24, 2012

It seems that they especially enjoy being around cattle, which helps lead to the number one cause of nest failure, trampling (the number two reason is predation). Well, that is almost too much to ask for! Often, nests are near villages, though sometimes they are found on the shores of salt lakes or on hills.

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Kazakhstan Cows 2009 Endangered Species 131

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 29, 2016

They used to be but a burgeoning population in need of more living room and land for cattle and crops destroyed a fair portion of those rainforests during the 20th century. Over there on the Caribbean (that’s what we call the Atlantic Ocean in Costa Rica), the lowlands are supposed to be blanketed in lush, over-vegetated rainforests.

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Costa Rica San Jose Panama Birds 166

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 28, 2010

This last implies of course an improvement in ethics, as opposed to morality, as I have defined it, unless we already understand 'Do as you would be done by' as applicable to whales, cattle, chickens, and so on, as it is to human beings. I am myself not so heroic. I eat eggs though they may come from battery hens.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

And reports of birds nesting – not owls, of course, those weirdo snow fetishists, but other birds nesting – light up my life. 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.

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Montana 2011 New York Bahamas 143

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2016

Then, we became birders again, noting Common Mynas and Eastern Cattle Egrets on the terraced lawns, Yellow-footed Pigeons, European-collared and Red-collared Doves in the trees bordering the garden squares. A few seconds to stare and take a photograph before being run over by breathless tourists in search of the perfect Taj selfie.

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India Tigers Birds Owls 189

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Thus, the cattle we raise for meat and dairy are sometimes called Bos taurus while the extinct wild form is always called Bos primigenius. This is not entirely unknown among domestic animals, but many domesticates have no living wild version. Bringing animals that would require feed and water at that early stage would have been unwise.

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Turkey Columbus Spain Fowl 219

10,000 Birds

MAY 10, 2012

Little Blue and Tricolored Herons , Snowy , Great , and Cattle Egrets , a Laughing Falcon , Black Vultures, Blue-winged Teal , a Wood Stork , a nesting tree of Montezuma Oropendulas , and Ruddy Ground-Doves were just some of the species we saw on our short train ride into the refuge.

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Honduras Wildlife Monkeys Transported 165

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

The egret family were represented by the Great Egrets , Intermediate Egrets and a lone Cattle Egret. Cattle Egret. We have observed the arrival of the Dollarbirds , Channel-billed Cuckoos, a male Pacific Koel, which is a rare visitor to Broome nowadays and of course all of the migratory shorebirds. Ducks, Ibis and Egrets.

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Cattle Ducks Zebras Australia 289

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 19, 2014

The point is, of course, that whales are not cows. Whales emerge from within the larger group of mammals that includes cattle, deer, pigs, camels, with camels being the most deeply rooted. (So So pigs are camels, as you probably already suspected.)

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Camels Whales Whaling Apes 209

Animal Person

MAY 30, 2009

Elizabeth Parker , the "chair man " (my emphasis) of the Animal Agriculture Alliance at CattleNetwork, which apparently is "The Source for Cattle News." Of course, Lobo is missing the point entirely. And of course what we do is about the issues. Are we pinning people down and force-feeding them vegan burritos?

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Veal Crate HSUS Vegan Gestation Crates 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 13, 2012

That Cattle Egret I found in Somerset County, August 2009? It is also, of course, more up-to-date. Of course, these are stories of over 460 species, condensed and informed by research gleaned from ornithological literature dating back to 1869. A scarce and very local summer resident in Salem County.

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New Jersey Birds 2009 Bald Eagle 207

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2017

We got particularly great looks at Guira Cuckoo at Pousada Piuval, a resort that is also a cattle ranch; they were active all day, even after many of the birds that gathered in the early morning dispersed, often whistling loudly from the fence posts. And, of course, Pat sees Jabiru every year in Costa Rica.

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Brazil Birds Los Angeles Tigers 171

Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

One might of course defend the consumption of animal products, while opposing the eating of meat, on the ground that killing a steer, say, produces more suffering than separating a cow from her calf. Of course one could be a vegetarian on both grounds, and object to anything either kind of vegetarian objects to. Philip E.

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Vegetarian Meat Morals Cows 40

10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2020

7 beats contributed their sightings from 7 countries (Hong Kong, UK, China, USA, Serbia, Australia and, of course, Costa Rica). Cattle Egret (Bubulcus ibis). I know that we are all looking forward to a time when we might return to the old normal, but until then, please stay safe and keep your distance. Gray Heron (Ardea cinerea).

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2020 Sparrows Niger Woodpeckers 156

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The HBW states that “even in their native range of Africa, they are considered pests due to their willingness to eat farmer’s crops and their prevalence on golf courses” I have to say, destroying golf courses clearly is something I hold in their favor. students comes in handy).

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Elephants Birds Congo Africa 147

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2013

Of course, this raptor pattern baldness exists for a good reason, which is another of the distasteful aspects of vulturine biology. There’s no getting around the fact that they’re weird looking. Vultures famously feed on carrion. Dead things.

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California Condor Turkey North America Jordan 200