10,000 Birds
MARCH 22, 2011
They’re all named for livestock. It didn’t take much imagination to name Cowbirds or Cattle Egrets or Cattle Tyrants , but there’s more fantasy, even more wit, involved in the naming of other bovine birds. The genus Bucephala includes three familiar ducks with big heads.
Critter News
FEBRUARY 23, 2009
Animals killed also include threatened and endangered species, a number which has steadily increased since 2005. The USDA National Agricultural Statistics Services shows that most livestock losses come from weather, disease, illness, and birthing problems, and not predation.
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