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The Cattle Egret Expansion

10,000 Birds

When you think of invasives, you think of the birds that have been helped by human beings to get where they are, such as House Sparrow or European Starling. While equally at home among cattle and elephants in areas where neither are available it has adopted airports, where they feed on insects that get stirred up by passing planes.

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Little Big Year – Week 35: Route 66, Tucumcari and The Albuquerque area

10,000 Birds

The birds were right next to an old abandoned farm house, and seemed quite happy to have their photo taken, up to a point, but then like the wind, they were gone, out thru the flat desert areas of New Mexico! Next week we are at Bosque de Apache NWR, as well as a couple of days at Elephant Butte Lake, in the town of Truth or Consequences, NM.