10,000 Birds
MARCH 16, 2017
Actually, I am not waiting for them, but for the Eastern Imperial Eagle to come here to hunt Susliks – an eagle from one of the last two remaining nests in Serbia. Susliks are becoming rarer: they need cattle to graze and keep the grass short. On some earlier occasion I observed an Imperial Eagle hunting. It is still cold.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 21, 2022
I’ve been leading a small but faithful group on Trinidad for several years to count birds within a livestock farm that is generally restricted to the public (you can read about some of those shenanigans here ); this was the first time I was to embark on a CBC on the smaller island of Tobago.
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 3, 2013
In short, the accepted view used to be that a small breeding population of Egyptian Vultures inhabited Southern Africa, but has vanished facing the spread of towns, roads and farms. Finally, when our SUV broke down in Gujarat, India, some three years ago, my first two Egyptians were flying above the road!
10,000 Birds
JUNE 4, 2020
nubicoides ) using them as a high viewpoint to hunt dragonflies. The lady living on a farm by the Gaborone Dam said ‘I saw a croc taking an egret.’. The gentleman living on a farm by the Ngotwane Dam said ‘A croc took my dog, right there!’. Cattle Egret 16. 24°45’45.74″S, 25°51’5.93″E. Hamerkop 1.
Animal Ethics
NOVEMBER 3, 2009
But the method she advocates for reaching those goals—raising grass-eating, pasture-foraging farm animals—would appear to be notoriously difficult to reproduce on a scale large enough to harvest enough meat, at a reasonable cost, for all the people wanting to eat meat in this country, let alone the world. Contrary to Ms. Indeed, in Ms.
Animal Person
MAY 30, 2009
Bea directed me to an interview with Dr. Elizabeth Parker , the "chair man " (my emphasis) of the Animal Agriculture Alliance at CattleNetwork, which apparently is "The Source for Cattle News." The HSUS isn't even anti-hunting ! Parker uses the term "anti-modern farming activists," which is new to me.
10,000 Birds
MAY 2, 2016
Then he pointed out a Least Tern that came in to hunt for fish on the pond as if I would be assuaged with another bird that has “Least” in its name! Sadly, he couldn’t (or wouldn’t) so I had to content myself with just Burrowing Owls , Monk Parakeets , Loggerhead Shrikes , and Cattle Egrets.
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