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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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On Betraying Your Family

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Yesterday, in the comments of An Affront to the Idea of Family , Brian wrote: I understand your concern for those cows that were beat by that man and the unfortunate death of all the cows that died in the snow storm. I love my cows and I don't anyone touch them in that manner. who I consider part of my family.".

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Birding Jonuta Road, in Tabasco, Mexico

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Then we detoured into the center of Villahermosa, to see the Northern Potoo that spends each day in the garden of one of Rolando’s family members. I told Rolando I didn’t feel I was really in Tabasco, because I had yet to see a cow standing in water. Then we saw a cow, standing in water.

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Trauma bonding in Animals

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I read about the leopard and a cow being an adoptive family because of trauma bond (Media here ). I just knew about this and it's the most endearing thing ever!! I love how living things are connected and emotional. ah, life does have pretty things :) submitted by /u/No-Quail1037 [link] [comments]

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Oostvaardersplassen

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The rooms are floating in a pond and the pond provides a home for a Eurasian Beaver family. Disappointingly, a very interesting area was closed off for the cows to rest (what about a nice stable?) Yes, that’s where I was going – the Oostvaardersplassen – and the hotel has a little bridge straight into the National Park.

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The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair With Nature

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In some ways his story is familiar to a lot of birders: the outdoors was both recreation and refuge for him, his family imbued him with a love of learning and an appreciation for the earth. The love of nature is evident in his chapters about his parents and siblings; his family is ever-present in his musings on trees and springs and cows.

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Masked Lapwings breeding

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We have recently come across several Masked Lapwing Vanellus miles families around Broome. Masked Lapwing chick hiding in a cow footprint! They generally lay four eggs, but we have only seen a maximum of three surviving chicks after a few days. A good indication that they have eggs or young is the extreme noise that they make.

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