10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2023

Cattle Egrets are thoroughly modern birds – they were among the first species to ditch mailed letters for faxes, then switched to email early, and now (at least in China) mostly communicate by WeChat. They are also early adopters with regard to their foraging – nowadays mostly following tractors rather than cattle.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2022

This Cattle Egret has just read a paper stating that it would be 3.6 On the other hand, there have been reports of Black-crowned Night Heron chicks being adopted by Common Terns ( source ). Now comes my question: Which of the two categories described do you think this paper belongs to? No wonder it looks a bit pissed off.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Thus, the cattle we raise for meat and dairy are sometimes called Bos taurus while the extinct wild form is always called Bos primigenius. Long before that time Mexican domesticated Turkeys had been adopted by Native Americans in the American Southwest as well. Which would be weird.

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