AVMA News

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Two of three indoor cats sharing homes with dairy farm employees succumbed to highly pathogenic avian influenza infection, indicating the virus may be transmitted via fomites from contaminated environments.

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Cats Farming 427

AVMA News

JUNE 12, 2024

More than 80 projects aimed at preventing the introduction and spread of livestock diseases are receiving millions of dollars, set aside by the 2018 Farm Bill, from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service in federal fiscal year 2024.

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AVMA News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Participants completed in-person assessments of the welfare of animals in a variety of scenarios, including laboratory rats, farmed bison, cage-free laying hens, and tortoises in a zoo. The 23rd annual AVMA Animal Welfare Assessment Contest, or AWJAC, took place November 17-19 at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls.

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Animal Welfare Welfare Cage Free Tortoises 410

Animal Equality

APRIL 10, 2025

She’s just one pig among many—trapped in a holding pen on a Kansas farm. When she sees her friend collapsed on the floor, she moves closer. Nudges her leg gently. She nudges again, harder this time. Still nothing. She sniffs along her friend’s legs, then up toward her torso. As if searching for signs of life.

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Pigs Farming Kansas Factory Farm 52

AnimalEquality.net

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Update September 2024 – The European Commission released a farming report after eight months of discussions on agriculture. It recommended revising EU animal protection laws and phasing out cages, but it didn’t set any requirements.

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For Animals Animal Protection Animal Laws 106

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 16, 2024

I was driving my small open-top car on a neighbour’s farm to see what I could find. The farm in question is large – 1,000 acres – and mainly arable, though a small herd of Redpolls (not birds, but a distinctive breed of cattle native to Suffolk) are a new addition.

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Cattle Farming Breeding Birds 246

10,000 Birds

MAY 26, 2012

Familiar birds across the European countryside are suffering precipitous declines. In order to boost food production across Europe, the wholesale ripping up of hedgerows, draining of wetlands and ploughing over of meadows has robbed farmland birds of their homes and food.

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Farming Turtles Suffering Europe 182

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 18, 2020

Black-bellied Whistling-Duck – Dendrocygna autumnalis; Lakeside Catfish farms, 11-Jan. Northern Shoveler – Spatula clypeata; Lakeside Catfish farms, 11-Jan. Least Grebe – Tachybaptus dominicus; Lakeside Catfish farms, 11-Jan. Plain-breasted Ground-Dove – Columbina minuta; Lakeside Catfish farms, 11-Jan.

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Costa Rica 2020 Morals Farming 264

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2014

Further north, we slow down by the ruins of an old farm… and yes, a Little Owl greets us with its ‘smiling’ face. We are going to the Sakule fish farm in the namesake village north of Belgrade – the very best wetland birdscape in the area. Common Cranes. … Being a birder – what does it mean to me? More of a hunt?

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Serbia Farming India Europe 260

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2017

I’m not sure the cidermakers of Wyndridge Farm Cidery of Dallastown, Pennsylvania had any of this in mind when they chose a Cedar Waxwing to adorn the label of their Wyndridge Crafty Cranberry Hard Apple Cider. Wyndridge Farm Cidery: Crafty Cranberry Hard Apple Cider. Happy drinking and good birding!

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Farming Pennsylvania Rabbits Fox 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 10, 2011

Carrington, North Dakota is farm and ranch country. The wide-open spaces of the prairie and the land it takes to make farming or ranching pay means that folks can get kind of isolated—especially in winter. It might make them stop to help a stuck birding van along a farm road.

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North Dakota West Virginia Farming Alaska 250

10,000 Birds

JULY 29, 2021

The very best wetland birding around Belgrade, Serbia, is not to be found in the locally famous and tourist-promoted Obedska or Carska Bara Ramsar areas, but at Beljarica Backwaters and the fish farm triangle of Centa, Baranda and Sakule villages, in the Tamis River floodplain. If there were rains recently, this section of 0.3

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Farming Fish Birds Boars 264

10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2022

In the end, I opted for the Tamis River floodplain, north of Belgrade, and its fish farms, some non-operational, some selling daily angling licenses. Driving with open windows (to hear the birds) becomes unbearable and I am heading out of this fish farm.

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Mules Breeders Farming Fish 264

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2021

He is a deputy Marsh Warden for the Celery Farm Natural Area in Allendale, N.J. Jim Wright’s latest book is The Real James Bond , the biography of the ornithologist whose name Ian Fleming stole for his secret agent 007. He writes “The Bird Watcher” column for the USA today newspapers in N.J.

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Parrots Dominica Philadelphia illegal 350

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Mason Farm is one of the best places for birding in the region, and arguably in the state. Just about every species of bird that had ever been found in the Triangle of North Carolina had been seen at some time or another at Mason Farm. And if that local patch is productive (and why else would it be your local patch if it’s not?),

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North Carolina Salamander Farming Tennessee 222

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Wetland Halfway between bustling Belgrade and sleepy Zrenjanin, River Tamis floodzone contains abundant oxbow lakes (turned into fish farms) and salt marshes filled with birds. Fish farms in Baranda and neighbouring Sakule villages, about 40 km / half an hour north of Belgrade, offer likely the best wetland birding near the city.

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Serbia Woodpeckers Owls Eagles 264

10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2011

In a completely unrelated case, a South Dakota man, Randy Albers, pled guilty to charges related to poisoning Canada Geese on his farm and was sentenced to a year of probation. Thee is still no information on the more recent killings of the majestic birds. He must also pay a $5,000 fine and $1,650 in restitution.

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South Dakota Indiana Killing Geese 241

10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2021

eBird) had it that the best place to find Clay-colored Sparrow is a particular conifer plantation on a particular farm road in the rural western portion of the county. I’ve continued my inconsistent effort to pick off the species I need for my Monroe County list. Rumor (i.e.

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Sparrows Farming Birds Experiments 264

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

But there are locations where water can be found, such as on Irakaya Farm , an oasis of green in the otherwise dry and inhospitable desert. Irakaya Farm is one of the best locations for birding in Qatar. Qatar is a small desert state in the Middle East and it’s hot, with summer temperatures above 50 degrees Celsius.

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Qatar Farming Sanctuary Raised 261

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2023

Pied Avocet by Boris Okanovic Next we find ourselves at the famous fish farm in the village of Sakule. Ecka Fish Farm by Mileta Cekovic Soon we reached the Ecka Fish Farm, a part of the wider Carska Bara Important Bird Area (yet, not a part of the protected Carska Bara Reserve). Protest indeed!

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Protesting Protesters Protest Germany 244

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Apparently, this winter warrior has hunted the same farm field from the same vantage point for a couple of weeks now. I thought for sure that Wild Turkeys on the wing would be the highlight of my birding weekend, but that we before I came upon a Barred Owl in broad daylight perched on a power line in Alma, NY.

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Lovebirds Turkey 2015 2013 264

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 27, 2015

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? Yes, dear fisherman, yes! He likes it there.

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Cattle Bald Eagle Florida Endangered Species 251

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

This can take the form of a classic raptor “scream” , but is more often a distinctive series of whistles that echo from a coffee farm down the street, from the tall trees way down at the end of the street, or even from the top of a tree just behind our place.

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Costa Rica Mice Arizona Squirrels 346

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

It was on the side of the road in a field at Blue Chip Farm, a large horse farm near the town of Wallkill. On Sunday, the same day that I enjoyed a bunch of winter birds in Sullivan County and Ulster County, I also had a chance encounter with a diminutive goose. No, finding a Cackling Goose takes a bit more work than that!

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Geese Horse Farm Canada Farming 185

10,000 Birds

MAY 29, 2014

Sharing our thoughts at Facebook and looking for a place to go now, without a prior plan and early start, the four of us ended up at the nearby Veliko Blato fish farm, swallowed by the city’s recent spread. Soon, an immature White-tailed (Sea) Eagle was above us, with a smallish carp in its talons (click on the photo to enlarge it).

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Stray Cat Serbia Eagles Stray 238

AnimalEquality.net

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

On September 5, 2024, the UK’s High Court granted Animal Equality permission to challenge the approval of the country’s first on-land salmon mega-farm. The farm–which aims to produce 5,000 tons of fish each year–would become one of the largest of its kind in the world.

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Farming Fish Animal Factory Farm 67

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2011

Flooding related to Tropical Storm Lee severely damaged the two farms used for raising Ring-necked Pheasants in Pennsylvania earlier this year, limiting the number of birds that will be released for slaughter by hunters (and slaughter is exactly what shooting farm-raised birds is). Never fear, hunters !

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Slaughter Slaughtered Hunters Pennsylvania 185

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. The original surveyor had fallen through. I was local and potentially up to the task. Expansive pasturelands, some better managed than others.

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North Carolina Farming United States North America 207

AnimalEquality.net

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In addition to eroding consumer trust, this delay will leave millions of farmed animals in cramped conditions for years… Source Despite publicly claiming to support animal welfare, the company has delayed its goals and failed to report meaningful progress on its existing promises.

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Animal Welfare Welfare Suffering Animal 70

10,000 Birds

MAY 21, 2011

This was followed by a couple of trucks and motorcycles that drove past the cabañas from the town to their small farms to milk the cows. And that is what we saw, this small town with only 500 people survive from farming and cutting wood; they do make some amazing wood craft.

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Ecuador Farming Abandon Abandonment 231

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Our elevation (1080 to 1150 feet) places us in what is called seasonal rainforest, but we are contiguous to the higher elevation Children’s Eternal Rainforest and connected reserves, comprising almost 250,000 acres of protected habitat from our farm to the top of the cloud forest.

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Costa Rica San Jose Liberia Farming 203

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

There were, however, compensations, such as finding breeding Yellow Wagtails on a nearby farm where I’d never seen them before. According to the website “ The Big Farmland Bird Count is an annual event that encourages farmers and land managers to record the bird species and numbers on their farms.

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Ireland Turtles Geese Farming 246

10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2014

A few turns around a farm field and the bird was found just hanging with some Brewer’s Blackbirds. .” I’d heard about this bird, its photo as been on Facebook and a simple Google search will bring up photos of it.

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Bald Eagle Eagles Oregon Blackbirds 251

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

By the end of February, the American Woodcocks at Mason Farm near Chapel Hill have been calling on territory for the better part of two months. My new eBird nemesis for my home county got this bird on me, an affront I could never let stand, so it was off to Mason Farm at dusk the next weekend to close that gap with extreme prejudice.

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Farming Game Experience Experiments 197

AnimalEquality.net

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Animal Equality in Mexico is shaping the future for farmed animals with legislative reform. Advocates are working on two levels—reshaping the food system and plant-based options nationally, while strengthening farm rules locally. With rich emotional lives and unbreakable family bonds, farmed animals deserve to be protected.

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Mexico Farm Animal Farmed Animals Animal 52

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2018

The mapping exercise works particularly well with birds confined to a specific habitat (Baranda fish farm S49396968 and Pecena slatina S49396887 ). Penduline T**s were impressively common, with more than 23 individuals recorded during the week, 14 of them in a single group in Centa fish farm (Vojvodina) S49396841.

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Serbia Switzerland Farming Montenegro 195

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

There’s a lot of water here, and the birds tend to be spread out over acres of farm ponds and reservoirs. By now the ice has mostly melted off the lakes, scattering the ducks back among their various farm ponds and side arms. It’s hard to get a full accounting, and even harder to find anything locally rare. A shame, too.

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North Carolina Ducks Farming Fish 243