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Whooping Crane at Joe Overstreet Road

10,000 Birds

One of the remaining birds is known to frequent Joe Overstreet Road, a dirt road that runs a few miles through sod farms and cattle pastures between Canoe Creek Road and Lake Kissimmee in Keenansville,about an hour south of Orlando. The first farm on the left, where all the cattle are? He likes it there. Sure, the looks were distant.

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Welsh Report Shows Increased Animal Research at Cardiff University

Critter News

By comparison, Bangor University used 1,464 mice and 664 fish, Aberystwyth used 289 cattle, 153 mice and 102 sheep and Swansea used 1,208 fish.

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Finding an Asian Openbill in Singapore-second ever record!

10,000 Birds

We were met by several Cattle Egret in beautiful breeding plumage feeding on the grass right next to the train station. You could see the size comparison of it among the egrets and other storks. If the train did not go all of the way then we took a connecting bus or walked. It had become quite a celebrity!

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Gardner Williams (1895-1972) on Wronging Animals

Animal Ethics

The interests in nourishment and in gustatory pleasure lead man to kill and eat cattle, fish, and fowl. This cuts down on the long-range satisfactions of the cattle, the fish, and the fowl. An accurate quantitative comparison of the value he gains with that which the lamb loses is really impossible.

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Better Birding: A Book Review (& a New Year’s goal)

10,000 Birds

These are extremely detailed, covering distribution, behavior, and plumage by age and gender (when relevant) and comparisons with other species in and external to the group.

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“Condors over Cologne” – Rogue Ales & Spirits: Condor Kolsch

10,000 Birds

Beset by poaching by cattle ranchers, habitat loss, DDT, and lead poisoning (from consuming shotgun pellets embedded in the condor’s carrion fare), populations of this enormous New World vulture fell into a serious decline in the twentieth century.

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National Geographic Complete Birds of North America, 2nd Edition: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Doing these comparisons can get a little confusing.). In other words, if you look up Cattle Egret, you will find a reference to its species account and its inclusion in the box on Identification of White Egrets. Over 70 range maps were updated. However, a species reference in a sidebar is indexed.