10,000 Birds

APRIL 12, 2013

Brown-crested Flycatcher ( Myiarchus tyrannulus ) is a widespread bird species of scrub and wooded habitats with a range extending from southern Texas and the southwestern United States, through Central America, and down south all the way to northern Argentina. What is their pattern of occurrence in the sunshine state?

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Critter News

JULY 19, 2009

“Through a combination of technical and financial support, the partnership will work toward making Iraq a top beef and lamb producer within the Arab world,” said Dr. Ma’ad Mohammed, Inma project coordinator for the Norman Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture of the Texas A&M System, a key program participant.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 19, 2015

While the Collared Plover is a super rare vagrant in Texas, it’s far easier to see this resident shorebird in Costa Rica than a Warbling Vireo. . Sparrows seem to have an aversion to humid tropical regions, at least as far south as Costa Rica, and the same can be said for Least Flycatcher , some ducks, and Warbling Vireo.

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Costa Rica Birds Panama Sparrows 161

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 9, 2017

In being an organic farm that also protects mature lowland rainforest, this is one heck of a birdy place (and the food’s not bad either- actually it’s unique and wonderful)! Not to mention, identifying more than 160 species in one day this year will probably also keep me there in 2018.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2016

Get on the plane anywhere from North Carolina to Texas or Florida and we are talking three to four hours. I don’t live in the forest either (unfortunately) but near a green patchwork of farm fields, second growth, and a riparian zone flush with trees.

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Costa Rica Falcons Birds North Carolina 121

Critter News

APRIL 24, 2012

Nationally, California ranks behind Texas, Kansas and Nebraska in total cattle numbers. The sale of cattle and calves was a $1.82-billion billion industry in California 2008 and fifth among the state’s top 20 commodities. Beef cattle are raised in nearly every California county.

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Cows California Meat Industry Nebraska 100

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

However, I agree with Mr. Foer that factory farming has to go. Rather than eating dogs, we all ought to eat exclusively small-farmed, free-range meat. Arguments like "Let Them Eat Dog" caricatures the antifactory farm position, which is a shame because it's an important argument to hear.

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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. To learn more about Arizona's precedent-setting victory for farm animals, see here. 503 ) was approved in the U.S.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2012

Soon after, Williams retired and moved out of state, and Eric was arrested by the Texas Rangers for a combination of credit card fraud (something about a fake field school for high schoolers in Orange Walk Town) and child abandonment. ” And they got up and left, and I never did get that monograph back from Eric.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

The four main grasspipers that move through Costa Rica are the same ones usually referred to as such by folks looking for them on turf farms from southern Ontario to Texas. A rare turf farm in Costa Rica, one of the places where grasspipers have been seen in the past.

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Costa Rica Farming Texas Cattle 146

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Howard, a Brooklynite who owned a goat farm in the area in the 1890s, the neighborhood was essentially founded by Howard’s creation of the Howard Estates Development Company, which dredged and filled enough land on which to build a neighborhood. Named for William J.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2018

After our brief trip thru the great state of Texas, we were headed back into New Mexico, a state I was quite excited to explore. The birds were right next to an old abandoned farm house, and seemed quite happy to have their photo taken, up to a point, but then like the wind, they were gone, out thru the flat desert areas of New Mexico!

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Albuquerque New Mexico Mexico Sparrows 120

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Nearly 70 percent of all the antibiotics produced are fed to farmed animals to prevent (not treat) disease. McWilliams is Associate Professor of History at Texas State University at San Marcos and a recent fellow in the agrarian studies program at Yale University. About the Washington Post columnist: James E.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 12, 2015

” is the word at Luna Nueva if you enjoy delicious, organic cuisine, much of which is produced on the farm. The Texas A and M Soltis Center : I was very pleased that we could once again bird this excellent site. The Arenal forests are very good for this species. Great food : “Yum!”

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Costa Rica Farming Louisiana 2014 101

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 23, 2006

Jonathan Hubbell, a philosophy major at the University of Texas at Arlington, is the newest member of the Animal Ethics blog, and once again, I would like to welcome him aboard. It goes something like this: Yes, I agree that factory farming is morally unjustifiable and ought to be abolished. are raised in cruel, inhumane factory farms.

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