10,000 Birds
APRIL 25, 2024
In between now and then, I will spend a week and a half in California, in the land where birding may mean walking on paved paths, or even on a wooden boardwalk built through the middle of a salt marsh. But once I get back home to Mexico, I will be climbing hills on livestock trails once again.
Critter News
JANUARY 24, 2012
Clearly a win for the damn livestock industry. A state law mandating "humane treatment" of downed livestock headed for the slaughterhouse was unanimously overturned Monday by the Supreme Court. California's (law) endeavors to regulate the same thing, at the same time, in the same place -- except by imposing different requirements.
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 15, 2013
Unfortunately, contemporary people from the high Andes are beginning to see condors as the enemy; a predator that will kill and eat livestock. It is also true that condors will spot cows and other livestock giving birth and guard the animal to be there and take advantage of the placenta and other leftovers.
10,000 Birds
JULY 5, 2016
Like their relatives, the California condors, Andean condors have bald heads.” It was placed on the Endangered Species List in 1973 , its populations dropping mostly due to hunting pressure from farmers who believe they kill livestock. Unfortunately, the range of the Andean Condor has decreased.
Critter News
AUGUST 15, 2010
This concession was to avoid a November ballot vote a la California's Proposition 2. The rising consumer preference for more “natural” and local products and concerns about pollution and antibiotic use in giant livestock operations are also driving change.
10,000 Birds
MAY 31, 2017
At this end of the waters edge, quite a bit of livestock had had been in and out, leaving large footprints in the mud. The California Quail used a similar hoof print for their needs as well. These prints then all have filled with water, and provide drinking spots, none that I would use, but the birds don’t seem to mind.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 27, 2015
Let me introduce my guest blogger, Lisa Owens Viani, co-founder of the California-based group RATS ( Raptors Are The Solution ), which educates people about the dangers of rat poisons. Does the product above strike you as black humor, only not funny? I’ll leave today’s blog in her capable hands.
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