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The Domestic Turkey and the First Thanksgiving

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Thus, the cattle we raise for meat and dairy are sometimes called Bos taurus while the extinct wild form is always called Bos primigenius. This is not entirely unknown among domestic animals, but many domesticates have no living wild version. Bringing animals that would require feed and water at that early stage would have been unwise.

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Jochen’s 2014 Year List

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In a funny twist of fate, it seems that 2014 will be much the same as 2012 and 2013 have been, with family trips to somewhere in France and business trips to Indonesia and Kazakhstan. Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis : Camargue, Provence, France, 2 Jan. Feral Pigeon Columba livia f. Outlook and goals for 2014.

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Duncan’s 2014 List

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For the moment I’ll stick with the split babbler families although I may relump the laughingthrushes, ground and tree babblers per Molye et al (2012). Cattle Egret ( Bubulcus ibis ); Lahad Datu, Borneo, 1 January. A mess of egrets in Kota Kinabalu (Great, Intermediate, Little and Cattle). LARIDAE (GULLS AND TERNS).

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