10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 20, 2012
This is the time of year that we rightfully contemplate the noble Turkey. Thus, the cattle we raise for meat and dairy are sometimes called Bos taurus while the extinct wild form is always called Bos primigenius. Photograph of a Wild Turkey at Flatrock Brook Nature Center, in Englewood, New Jersey, by Corey. And it isn’t.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
Nesting is now confined to Morocco, irregularly in Boghari in Algeria and in Birecik, Turkey.” (The Sadly, they no longer breed in Algeria, while in Turkey no free-flying birds remain. (In On a visit in October 2022, I found ibises feeding with cattle in scruffy roadside paddocks adjacent to the marismas ( photographs below ).
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Critter News
NOVEMBER 29, 2008
It's even got Chuck Jolley from the Cattle Network riled up. Tags: PETA farm animal welfare thanksgiving turkey massacre. Overlooked this one. Another nasty farm animal abuse story. Whatever you think about PETA, I admire them for exposing this crap. Find another line of work. Find another line of work. It will be too late.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 17, 2021
Cattle Egrets are very common outside of the most urbanized areas. Meanwhile, if you get outside of the city center and don’t see at least one Turkey Vulture or Black Vulture , well, you’re just not trying. ” (Yes, that was a shameless plug!). This Red-tailed Hawk happens to be disguised as a Red-tailed Hawk.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 4, 2020
Cattle Egret ( Bubulcus ibis ). Turkey Vulture ( Cathartes aura ). Black-headed Gull ( Chroicocephalus ridibundus ). Ring-billed Gull ( Larus delawarensis ). Herring Gull ( Larus argentatus ). Larinae sp. ). Gray Heron ( Ardea cinerea ). Black Vulture ( Coragyps atratus ). Eurasian Sparrowhawk ( Accipiter nisus ).
10,000 Birds
MAY 7, 2020
From there to the nearby Evros River Delta, at the very border with Turkey, with more easterly species such as the Spur-winged Plover. The first thing to appear was its yellow bill – a locally rare Cattle Egret ! Then about a 100 km to the Ismarida Lake and Porto Lagos lagoons for breeding and migrating waders.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 14, 2018
Unlike Barred Owls they were accompanied by no great controversy , and unlike Cattle Egrets or Eurasian Collared Doves they didn’t come as an abrupt continent-hopping surprise. But shifting baseline syndrome doesn’t just apply to things that have become diminished.
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