10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Despite the fact that efforts are made to ensure they are not imprinted on humans, they are naturally confiding, even friendly. On a visit in October 2022, I found ibises feeding with cattle in scruffy roadside paddocks adjacent to the marismas ( photographs below ). Here they were easy to overlook.

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Critter News

APRIL 24, 2012

The reemergence of mad cow disease, discovered in a California dairy cow, could have major implications for the state’s meat industry, even though officials have said that the human food supply is unaffected. The sale of cattle and calves was a $1.82-billion Beef cattle are raised in nearly every California county.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2015

When Nadeem and Mohammed first began in 2003, few veterinarians would suture the wounds of birds, saying they were too small. When a tree filled with nestling Cattle Egrets collapsed, 60 orphans took up temporary residence in the house.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 22, 2011

It really makes you realise how sensitive the human body is to humidity variations. There had been cattle in the area and we kept coming across bizarre butterfly circles. All we can think is that they were attracted to an area where there had been cattle urine and they were getting the natural salts.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 28, 2011

So barren in fact it is not uncommon to find this grassland species occupying the same habitat as cattle or areas with high degree of human disturbance. This was back in 2003 so it is hard to say where those numbers fall now. These Mountain Plovers , as you can see, are so cryptic in their environment.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2016

Others, by their own admission, are Luddites and believe that the pinnacle of human technological achievement was reached on the day that man first bound a notebook in moleskin. Cattle Egret – Bubulcus ibis. Cattle Tyrant – Machetornis rixosa. Cutler Wetlands. 01 Jan 2016. Reddish Egret – Egretta rufescens.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2016

Others, by their own admission, are Luddites and believe that the pinnacle of human technological achievement was reached on the day that man first bound a notebook in moleskin. Cattle Egret – Bubulcus ibis. Cattle Tyrant – Machetornis rixosa. Cutler Wetlands. 01 Jan 2016. Reddish Egret – Egretta rufescens.

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