10,000 Birds
JULY 22, 2014
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. I’d like to introduce you to a diminutive heron, the Cattle Egret Bubuclus ibis. Cattle Egret has been introduced by humans to Hawaii and the Seychelles.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 22, 2022
The subtitle of Jackie Higgins’ book Sentient: How Animals Illuminate the Wonder of Our Human Senses , aptly sets forth her thesis – though the “wonder” it refers to could equally well be used to describe animal (not just human) senses, as she shows in fascinating detail.
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 10, 2020
Several likely winter in the southern Amazon (where the forest and all of its incredible biodiversity is being steadily decimated and replaced with massive cattle farms) but according to migration data, even more may depend on the forests of the Gran Chaco in Paraguay and northern Argentina as well as related dry forest habitats in Bolivia.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 30, 2011
The Carolina grasshopper Dissosteira carolina ranges from sea to shining sea, into Canada and nearly to the tip of Texas. Cattle Egrets might well get them when they leap out of the way of our domestic replacement bison. They can carry parasites to humans. Surely they couldn’t be the same species, across a continent.
Animal Ethics
JULY 5, 2007
No wonder rBGH has been banned in Europe, Canada, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. Europe and Canada outlawed using hormones on dairy cows because of such human and animal health concerns. June 29, 2007 The writers are cattle ranchers. Increasing rBST milk would just move food production in the wrong direction.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 4, 2016
Others, by their own admission, are Luddites and believe that the pinnacle of human technological achievement was reached on the day that man first bound a notebook in moleskin. Canada Warbler – Cardellina canadensis. Cattle Tyrant – Machetornis rixosa. Canada Goose – Branta canadensis. 13 May 2016.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 1, 2016
Others, by their own admission, are Luddites and believe that the pinnacle of human technological achievement was reached on the day that man first bound a notebook in moleskin. Canada Goose – Branta canadensis. Cattle Egret – Bubulcus ibis. Cattle Tyrant – Machetornis rixosa. 15 Jan 2016. 03 Jan 2016.
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