10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Many have been shot since the project started, despite a great deal of publicity raising awareness of the birds. 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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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 27, 2015

From 1993 to 2004, biologists released 289 captive-raised whooping cranes into central Florida. As of 2008 only 31 of the 289 cranes released into central Florida were still alive. The first farm on the left, where all the cattle are? And, yes, the setting, a cattle pasture, could have been more pleasant.

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Critter News

APRIL 24, 2012

The sale of cattle and calves was a $1.82-billion billion industry in California 2008 and fifth among the state’s top 20 commodities. Beef cattle are raised in nearly every California county. Nationally, California ranks behind Texas, Kansas and Nebraska in total cattle numbers. The state also hosts 1.84

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10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2022

Smith Oaks is a migratory bird sanctuary owned and maintained by Houston Audubon, and the Rookery is a year-round bonus, full of Spoonbills, Great Egrets, Snowy Egrets, Cattle Egrets, Neotropical Cormorants, Anhingas, Tricolored Herons and Black-crowned Night-Herons.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 11, 2008

4): There is a solution to at least some of the beef industry’s sustainability woes, and that is to raise cows in a pasture-based system. Finishing the cattle on grass is a far “greener” method. 5, 2008 The writers are the authors of “ Beef: The Untold Story of How Milk, Meat, and Muscle Shaped the World.” Andrew Rimas Evan D.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 16, 2008

But there is a net loss in all meat production, not just of farmed fish or feeding fish to land animals being raised for food. Feeding grain to chickens, pigs and cows is even more inefficient, with 70 percent of grain grown in the United States going to animals raised for food. Danielle Kichler Washington, Nov. Lawrence S.

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