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Cow Birds

10,000 Birds

They’re all named for livestock. 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. Following a detour to Harvard Law School, he took the Ph.D. at Princeton University in 1990.

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Environmental Groups Call For End To USDA Wildlife Killing

Critter News

The USDA National Agricultural Statistics Services shows that most livestock losses come from weather, disease, illness, and birthing problems, and not predation. To accomplish this goal, they direct control methods at only the specific animal or local wildlife populations in the area where damage has occurred.

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