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The return of the Old Man

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They were my target species, and I remember being delighted in not only seeing them well, but finding feeding flocks that were remarkably unconcerned about being watched. 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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Whooping Crane at Joe Overstreet Road

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Like my two previous visits I spent one day that I didn’t have to lead any field trips doing a run through central Florida looking for some of the specialty species of the region. On my previous trips I was successful on each and every species except for the crane. The first farm on the left, where all the cattle are?

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Cow Birds

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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. Where Are You Birding This First Weekend of July 2008? The genus Bucephala includes three familiar ducks with big heads.

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Photo Essay: Green-rumped Parrotlets from Egg to Adult

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Back in October 2008, in his first field job out of school, he helped a Cornell PhD student, Karl, with his dissertation on vocal communication in Green-rumped Parrotlets Forpus passerinus. Getting intimate with a species over the course of the breeding cycle is one of the more rewarding aspects of birding, and field research too.

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Environmental Groups Call For End To USDA Wildlife Killing

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Animals killed also include threatened and endangered species, a number which has steadily increased since 2005. In 2008, the Environmental Protection Agency charged Wildlife Services for its illegal placement of a sodium cyanide M-44 (a highly lethal booby trap) on public land, which harmed a U.S.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

A total of 33,000 wild horses are degrading the environment, but around 3 million to 4 million cattle are not? Animals in nature don’t need to be controlled by a species that has such difficulty in controlling itself. July 23, 2008 And no, the mustangs do not need birth control. Let them go, and let them be.

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Licking Clay: the Macaws of Tambopata, Peru

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Lucky for us, world-traveler Tim Ryan of From the Faraway, Nearby was good enough to provide a profusely-illustrated account of his visit to Tambopata as a volunteer in 2008. Hundreds of riotously colored birds representing 14 species of macaws and parrots flock and frolic together in less than fifty meters of forest canopy.

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