10,000 Birds

MAY 28, 2018

The mighty rhino along with the Cattle Egret. In addition, I have so many images that I need to organize, name and get onto the hard drives, that I see down day every couple just to get caught up. The best I could do to mix both the birds and the animals was in the picture at the top of this story.

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South Africa Africa Rhinos Mongoose 112

10,000 Birds

JULY 28, 2011

So barren in fact it is not uncommon to find this grassland species occupying the same habitat as cattle or areas with high degree of human disturbance. However, organizations like Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory spend much time looking for more evidence of this species’ decline. Good birding and love our prairies!

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Prairie Dogs Colorado North Dakota Soreing 163

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

For being invited to the Global Bird Watcher’s Conference, I would like to thank the organizers: Government of Gujarat and the Gujarat Tourism Corporation. The conference was organized by excellent J.N. Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis. Photos copyright © Dusanka Stokovic Simic & Dragan Simic. Acknowledgements.

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India Birds Eagles Boars 222

Animal Person

MARCH 30, 2009

Susan e-mailed after receiving RPA's news release on the organization's recent mailing to the governors of all 50 states about our land-grant universities' (LGUs') meat-industry problem. The interview is scheduled for 10-15 minutes of Monday's one-hour show. There's an Archive icon for possible later listening.

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Puerto Rico Responsible Policies Meat Industry Humane Treatment 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2016

Then, we became birders again, noting Common Mynas and Eastern Cattle Egrets on the terraced lawns, Yellow-footed Pigeons, European-collared and Red-collared Doves in the trees bordering the garden squares. A few seconds to stare and take a photograph before being run over by breathless tourists in search of the perfect Taj selfie.

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India Tigers Birds Owls 188

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2019

And of course, there are Cattle Egrets ( Bubulcus ibis ) and several species of cowbirds that rarely stray too far from livestock. For most of history, beer has thrived in agrarian settings, too. “Bubbling Bob the Bobolink”, as illustrated by Louis Agassiz Fuertes for The Burgess Bird Book for Children (1919).

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Vermont Belgium Farming Europe 118

Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

It is argued that beef cattle and hogs are protein factories in reserve. In order to produce one pound of beef, cattle eat approximately sixteen pounds of grain; and in order to produce six pounds of pork or ham, hogs eat approximately six pounds of grain. The proponent of the argument wants to stop replacing them when they die.

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Vegetarian Morals Meat Cattle 40

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."

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Veal Crate HSUS Vegan Gestation Crates 100

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 11, 2008

Finishing the cattle on grass is a far “greener” method. A carnivore is an organism that, by nature, feeds only on animal flesh. A herbivore is an organism that, by nature, feeds only on plants. An omnivore is an organism that, by nature, feeds on both animal flesh and plants. This is stupid.

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New York Times New York Meat Animal Welfare 40

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Carlos Sanchez, who designed, organized, and led our bucket-list trip, warned me, and Carlos knows Brazil. Only, once I got there, I discovered that the coffee, while good, can’t compare to the birds. Oh my gosh! 1,712 species, 12% of which are endemics. I shouldn’t have been surprised. Favorite Woodpecker: This is a toughie.

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Brazil Birds Los Angeles Tigers 148

Animal Ethics

MARCH 3, 2008

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. But such an argument is just another expression of man's ruthlessness toward lower organisms which he has in his power.

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Lamb Fowl Morals Animal 40

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2016

The 24 groups of birds are organized into nine broad categories—Waterbirds, Coastal Birds, Seabirds, Large Shorebirds, Skulkers, Birds of Forest and Edge, Aerial Insectivores, Night Birds, Open-Country Birds. The process is called “Wide-angle birding: Be the bird, see the bird.”.

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Birds Groups 2015 North America 190

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 13, 2012

That Cattle Egret I found in Somerset County, August 2009? As I was writing this review, I received an e-mail from Scott Barnes, New Jersey Audubon senior naturalist, announcing the organization’s new NJ eBird Portal. Eastern Kingbird is a common and widespread summer resident, and a common fall and fairly common spring migrant.

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New Jersey Birds 2009 Bald Eagle 190

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2015

With almost 1200 species of birds in the Capital Region, the house and roof steadily filled with Egyptian Vultures, Barn Owls, Hornbills, Black Ibis, Cattle Egrets, Steppe Eagles , a multitude of songbirds and pigeons , as well as the occasional cobra or palm squirrel.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation India Rescue Wounded 262

Animal Ethics

JULY 5, 2007

June 29, 2007 The writer, a consultant, was vice president for agriculture of the Biotechnology Industry Organization, a trade group, from 1997 to 2005. Consumers want less use of drugs and chemicals in milk production, not more, as shown by skyrocketing organic milk purchases. June 29, 2007 The writers are cattle ranchers.

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New York Times New York 2007 Cows 40

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

The column, which you can read here , is a call to arms to factory farmers to fight back against those individuals and organizations working to protect farm animals from the abuses inherent in factory farms. A column entitled "Ag Industry Threatened by Animal Rights" appeared in today's High Plains/Midwest Ag Journal [ HPMAJ ].

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Factory Factory Farm Factory Farming Gestation Crates 40

10,000 Birds

JULY 1, 2014

I had been contacted by Bill at Birds & Beans Coffee, a wonderful shade-grown distributor I’d been using for a few years, to help do a breeding bird survey on a local organic farm. Barn Swallows lined up on the wires outside his cattle barn and Grasshopper Sparrows sang unseen from uncut hayfields.

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North Carolina Farming United States North America 161

10,000 Birds

MAY 24, 2018

The tour organizer was Arpit Deomurari, whom I met on Facebook a few weeks earlier. Of the estimated 500 million cattle in India, only 4% were destined for consumption by humans as meat. And in the process, I fell in love with India. Egyptian Vulture; all photos (5) by Dusanka Stokovic Simic. And we cried: Vultures!

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India Stray Dog Cows Rats 130

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

The Great Miami Winter Bird Count, an event that transpired over the course of four days from February 13-16, set out to record this diversity for the first time in an organized manner as part of the overall Miami Birding Wave project. Cattle Egret: 133. Can we hit 200 ABA-countable species in four days next year? Brown Pelican: 53.

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Miami 2015 United States Birds 166

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

Not that long ago, Costa Rica had one of the highest deforestation rates in the world, rainforests were razed to make way for hot and chiggery cattle pasture, and bot flies probably became more numerous than some bird populations. It is depressing and angering and just wrong. But, in the wider view of things, extinction is necessary.

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Costa Rica Species Panama Birds 217

10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2012

The essential point is that the ecosystems of New Zealand were unable to cope with mammals, the organisms lacked the ability to defend themselves from the very different problems posed by mammal predation. The initial solution in New Zealand was to move species to islands where mammals hadn’t reached.

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Animal Rights Rights New Zealand Animal 262

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2014

And, it is a wonderful book to look at, each page chock full of species facts, drawings, and range maps, organized in a design style that makes finding that exact thing you want to know easy, and that makes browsing fun. The sidebars and large migration maps are not indexed (nor listed in the Table of Contents, which is purely by family).

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North America America Birds Family 177

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

If beef cattle who could not feel pain were developed, then it would be permissible to eat them. The ability to feel pain is not an obviously plausible way of morally distinguishing microorganisms from other organisms. The question can be raised: Why should these organisms be killed and others not be killed?

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Morals Vegetarian Meat Killing 40

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 31, 2022

“All the pretty people that we meet Eat organic and buy green electricity All the pretty people that we meet Are so much more successful in their careers than me” Of course, you can just skip this part of the blog and move to the part on Nabang birds. Below is either a Bianchi’s Warbler or a Marten’s Warbler.

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Bangladesh Birds China India 176

Animal Ethics

JUNE 4, 2009

Cattle might be overproduced because of government subsidies and new markets found for meat. More important, it might be a much more efficient means of changing practice to stage protests at meat-packing companies, put pressure on congressmen, and work through existing humane organizations.

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Vegetarian Morals Protest Protesting 40

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 12, 2015

Although this tradition started in the temperate zone, we also celebrate it in Costa Rica with counts that are more like organized events featuring vendors, talks, sponsors, and, best of all, an awesome birding tee-shirt. ” is the word at Luna Nueva if you enjoy delicious, organic cuisine, much of which is produced on the farm.

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Costa Rica Farming Louisiana 2014 101

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2022

(I bet that if male Greater Painted-snipes have a get-together, they b h a lot about how insensitive the females are, how they leave all the chick-rearing work to them, how they never listen, and how they seem to think mostly with their sex organs). I cannot decide which photos to show of them, so I am showing too many. but they do.

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Birds China Eggs Breeding 147