10,000 Birds

AUGUST 17, 2017

There should be thousands of birds at this time of the year, Dimitris Michalakis from the Karla Lake management authority told me. I pass the first of several dead cows. In the northern section, the water was deep, interspersed by reed-islets, but the only birds were a few Little Egrets and Black-headed Gulls.

Greece 205

Greece Killing Pelicans Eagles 205

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 27, 2014

CR being the highest category in the Red List , if I want to see some of those birds, I better hurry! Locals being vegetarians, why are there no birds? That can be traced back in time to 1875, when Alfred Brehm wrote that he had found Sociable Lapwings only alongside the domestic cattle. At first, we observe from afar.

India 252

India Sudan Ukraine Camels 252

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Cattle fields surrounded the small town, the cows forming dark silhouettes against the rapidly graying skies. We felt in high spirits after a gorgeous afternoon in the grassland, tallying up over 20 species of birds, including three lifers for me. Add another species to the daily list!

Kansas 116

Kansas Pelicans ALA Cows 116

10,000 Birds

JULY 27, 2011

One of the things I do to earn a living is bird surveys, some for the federal government, some for private companies that want to assess an area for construction (like a wind turbine). There’s something very relaxing and calming sitting in one spot for four hours at a time and only focusing on birds, no email, no paperwork just birds.

Birds 162

Birds Cattle Blackbirds North America 162

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 19, 2014

There is a fantastic paper just out in Science : “Sustained miniaturization and anatomoical innovation in the dinosaurian anceestors of birds” by Michael Lee, Andrea Cau, Darren Naishe and Gareth Dyke. Whales are cows. The point is, of course, that whales are not cows. Even though whales are cows. But birds are dinosaurs.

Camels 209

Camels Whales Whaling Apes 209

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 29, 2016

They used to be but a burgeoning population in need of more living room and land for cattle and crops destroyed a fair portion of those rainforests during the 20th century. But, if you want to go further afield, fear not, there is some wonderful lowland forest birding up near Nicaragua and down south by Panama as well.

Costa Rica 166

Costa Rica San Jose Panama Birds 166

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 24, 2012

It seems that they especially enjoy being around cattle, which helps lead to the number one cause of nest failure, trampling (the number two reason is predation). It was nice just to be in the presence of such cool little birds but I wish I had gotten better shots of such a rare and awesome species.

Kazakhstan 131

Kazakhstan Cows 2009 Endangered Species 131

10,000 Birds

MARCH 23, 2016

This property is also a site with vernal pools and uses cattle grazing for vegetation control. Since cows can destroy nest site entrances, eight inch square concrete blocks were used as foyers at the tunnel entrances. The inspection tubes are attached to the lids and reach to the soil surface, then the entire trench is backfilled.

Owls 102

Owls California 2010 Colorado 102

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 23, 2017

Lots of the migrant birds are starting to return to Mexico. Some in great numbers, some, just a single bird or two. None of these birds are rarities, and would never be considered a species to get all twitter-pated about. None of these birds are rarities, and would never be considered a species to get all twitter-pated about.

Cattle 100

Cattle Mexico Cows Game 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

And reports of birds nesting – not owls, of course, those weirdo snow fetishists, but other birds nesting – light up my life. Most exotics, at least in the bird world, stick close to their point of arrival and barely hang on – or don’t – over the generations. In 1998 W. And of Wyoming.

Montana 143

Montana 2011 New York Bahamas 143

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

Found throughout South America in ever-dwindling numbers these extremely beautiful birds – threatened by habitat destruction and collection for the wild bird trade – are often difficult to see and hard to find. These threats are further exacerbated by the naturally low reproductive rates of these cavity-nesting birds.

Peru 255

Peru Parrots 2011 South America 255

10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2011

But it wasn’t all that diabolical when you consider that it was the Queens Zoo that served as the setting and I also left this clue: “a knowledge of what birds can be seen in my fine borough will be of great assistance to you.&# Those who are really familiar with Queens should know what birds are in the zoo named for our borough.

Bald Eagle 113

Bald Eagle Zoos 2011 Parrots 113

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

However, after rain the Pacific Gulls can be observed among the dairy cows in paddocks close to the coast. The presence of the dairy cows helps you to comprehend the size of these large gulls. Other birds found among the dairy cows in this situation are Common Starling , Australian Raven and Cattle Egrets.

Cows 163

Cows Cattle Australia Birds 163

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Niman’s suggestion that the findings do not apply to smaller farms, the United Nations and the University of Chicago reports demonstrate the inefficiency of beef “production” because a cow must be fed to convert grass or grain calories into protein before a human can consume even “humane” or grass-fed beef. Indeed, in Ms.

New York Times 40

New York Times New York Meat San Antonio 40

10,000 Birds

MAY 24, 2018

What was the weirdest place you ever birded? Cows are considered sacred by majority of Hindus so cow meat is generally not consumed. This results in the cow’s corpse being left to be fed on by vultures. Of the estimated 500 million cattle in India, only 4% were destined for consumption by humans as meat.

India 149

India Stray Dog Cows Rats 149

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 26, 2020

I soon encountered many of the local birds that I have become very familiar with over recent weeks. When I returned to the small dam where there had been so many Australian Wood Ducks earlier in the day I discovered that the eleven cows had been joined by two Cattle Egrets. Two Cattle Egrets with four cows!

Buffalo 171

Buffalo Fish Koalas Cattle 171