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What Flies Over Costa Rica in the Night?

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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.

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Cow Birds

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It didn’t take much imagination to name Cowbirds or Cattle Egrets or Cattle Tyrants , but there’s more fantasy, even more wit, involved in the naming of other bovine birds. They’re all named for livestock. The genus Bucephala includes three familiar ducks with big heads. at Princeton University in 1990.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Such hormones may increase the risk of breast, colon and gastrointestinal cancers, according to a University of Illinois study. June 29, 2007 The writers are cattle ranchers. Consumers want less use of drugs and chemicals in milk production, not more, as shown by skyrocketing organic milk purchases. To the Editor: Dr. Henry I.

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Collaborative List – November 2018

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He pointed out that Illinois had been sadly neglected up to this point, so Redgannet made a special visit to Chicago to redress this oversight. Cattle Egret – Bubulcus ibis. Cattle Tyrant – Machetornis rixosa. A big thank you goes out to Tristan, who demonstrated that at least one person reads this drivel.

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