Goat in Minnesota tests positive for HPAI
AVMA News
MARCH 26, 2024
A juvenile goat on a Minnesota farm is the first U.S. case of a U.S. case of a domestic ruminant succumbing to highly pathogenic avian influenza.
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The Parable of the Goat Mites
10,000 Birds
MARCH 8, 2013
And so, a man named Salvador Ramirez brought a small herd of goats from Santa Catalina Island where he was to San Clemente Island where he went to live. And so, when Salvador Ramirez left, there were feral goats on the island of San Clemente, the southernmost of the Channel Islands off the coast of California. And so, the U.S.
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Goat Man of Utah
10,000 Birds
JULY 21, 2012
Authorities are concerned that a man spotted wearing a goat outfit and cavorting with actual wild Mountain Goats in the mountains of Utah could be in danger when hunting season opens in September. And, no, I am not making this up.
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Diving New Zealand – Goat Island
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 16, 2013
Goat Island, off New Zealand’s Northland, was an amazing diving location without any birds. Some of these destinations are far removed from typical birding locations, but have birds you wouldn’t see otherwise. But that is actually by the by, because diving is its own reward. Hiwihiwi ( Chironemus marmoratus ).
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Board revises AVMA policies on horse tripping, opioids, public health
AVMA News
MAY 2, 2024
The policy topics ranged from horse tripping to goat and sheep disbudding and dehorning to the veterinarian’s role in the opioid epidemic. The AVMA Board of Directors (BOD) updated and adopted several policies during its April 4-5 meeting at AVMA headquarters in Schaumburg, Illinois.
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Goats Yelling Like Humans
4 The Love Of Animals
FEBRUARY 16, 2013
These goats really do sound like humans! We had an especially big laugh at the last goat of the bunch.
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Australasian Snapper, Pagrus auratus
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 12, 2011
A pair at Goat Island Marine Reserve Being both large and common means that snapper have long been fished in New Zealand. The first such reserve, Goat Island Marine Reserve, was established in 1975, and to date there are 33 reserves around New Zealand that protect 7% of New Zealand’s territorial waters.
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206 What’s in a Name: Chuck-will’s-Widow
10,000 Birds
APRIL 24, 2015
The family name means goat-milker, and indeed all nightjars are sometimes colloquially called goatsuckers, as I’ve learned not to bring up unless I want to keep the weird looks going. European folklore holds that these birds would creep up on goats at night and suck out the milk.
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Saving Birds From Invasive … Plants?
10,000 Birds
MARCH 25, 2014
You’ve no doubt heard about birds being put at risk by nonnative cats, rats, and even goats. Yes, that’s what’s happening at Midway Atoll, a chain of islands in the Pacific Ocean managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS). But plants?
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Adorable animals are sharing an important message!
4 The Love Of Animals
AUGUST 8, 2017
Recently, the Ad Council has crafted three aww-inducing Public Service Ads (PSAs) featuring puppies, baby goats, and hedgehogs! Everyone loves videos with animals being adorable and cute. Yes, hedgehogs (of course we had to share that one). Not only are … Continue reading →
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Savanna Nightjars prove that growing old is a process of becoming increasingly disillusioned
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 1, 2013
I know for a fact that science is correct in stating that they don’t suck the milk of goats. Well, because I have seen many a goat’s udder, and not once did I notice a nightjar attached to it. Then again, science is definitely wrong in stating that goatsuckers have legs. They don’t, and I know it.
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248 The Parrots of Howard Beach
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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Nyala, Southern Africa’s Stunning Antelope
10,000 Birds
APRIL 29, 2015
By this I mean applying the term antelope to cover all of the family Bovidae, which would include the sheep, goats and ox. I’m a big fan of the antelopes, a group that is most commonly associated with Africa but which also occurs in Asia and, if you stretch the term to be cladistically meaningful, Europe and North America.
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Birding Dulan County, Qinghai
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 28, 2021
Given that it is hard to mention one of my favorite bands, the Mountain Goats, in a birding blog, these photos of blue sheep are probably the best opportunity I will ever get. Blue Sheep. At least they are cute. Listen/watch their “This year” here. Tibetan Fox. Kind of cute, too.
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Iguanas Love Roti!
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 5, 2013
Shrimp and goat are also available. This happened in Trinidad and Guyana in the urban areas to make it easier and faster to eat the items, as the individuals’ hands would not get as dirty. In Trinidad and Tobago, various wrapped “roti” are served, including chicken, conch, beef, and vegetable.
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235 Birds at Rockaway Beach
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 7, 2015
I hardly paid any attention to the American Oystercatchers which is kind of surprising as I usually can’t resist their carrot bills and goat eyes. Multitasking shorebirds! What’s next? I’m kind of embarrassed that this is the best flight shot I got of one all weekend.
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"How I Learned to Dislike Henry Alford"
Animal Person
APRIL 3, 2009
The article is called " How I Learned to Love Goat Meat " (thanks, Bea), and its author Henry Alford, as you might imagine, discovers the wonders of goat flesh consumption and tells us all about his journey. He ends with: D id the goat yield the desired end?
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Birding the road from Kabul to Jalalabad
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 25, 2023
On the way back to Kabul, we stopped at a mosque … … so that my companions could pray and I could take some more photos … … not only of the impressive landscape but also of some goats (which then made me the center of attention of the locals) … … and buy drinks at the roadside store.
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Getting Your Goat
Animal Ethics
OCTOBER 15, 2008
Here is a New York Times story about goat meat.
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40 Away From it All: The North Cascades
10,000 Birds
JULY 17, 2015
I didn’t see the mountain goats that lend the town of Mazama its logo, though I did buy a water bottle as a souvenir. Now, none of these are great rarities. I didn’t spot a Spotted Owl , or catch a glimpse of a Marbled Murrelet – both North Cascades National Park breeders.
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Sunday Funnies: Buttermilk “plays” with her friends.
4 The Love Of Animals
AUGUST 19, 2012
Some seriously cute, and funny, goats for your Sunday!
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Finding Solace in Birds
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 12, 2016
No, he couldn’t take care of himself and conversation edged towards the non-sensical but I am better for that brief meeting in the small patch of rare, mature forest on Goat Island and am grateful for it.
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208 The Front Cover Bird
10,000 Birds
JUNE 27, 2013
One goat is feeding on fish hanging to dry along the sticks. I leave acacias behind and enter the village, at first raised on low concrete platforms, barely half a meter above the tidal mud flat. And the village consists of tents, a lot of tents made of jute, behind the horizontal stick fences.
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235 Can Stewart Island become Pest Free?
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 22, 2012
Getting rid of rabbits and goats was something that had been done for many years, but it was generally thought that rats and cats would be impossible to remove from all but the smallest islands. The other obvious solution was to make more predator-free islands. But while obvious this was also a much harder proposition.
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196 Maple Farm Sanctuary Needs Your Help!
Animal Person
MARCH 24, 2009
As you know, Cheri and Jim are in the early stages of setting up their sanctuary, after a long journey of conscience that began with them closing their dairy goat operation, then transitioning to a vegan way of life, and eventually, creating a loving, lifelong home for farmed animals in need.
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India's Cows Contributing to Global Warming?
Critter News
APRIL 13, 2009
By burping, belching and excreting copious amounts of methane — a greenhouse gas that traps 20 times more heat than carbon dioxide — India's livestock of roughly 485 million (including sheep and goats) contribute more to global warming than the vehicles they obstruct.
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Noxious: Montana’s Battle With Spotted Knapweed, and What Birders Can Do
10,000 Birds
JULY 25, 2014
Though sheep and goats will feed on newly-sprouted knapweed in the spring, a pasture dominated by the stuff turns woody in late summer and autumn, leaving little nutrition for grazing animals. The impact of knapweed on Montana’s economy. Agricultural Economics Report No.
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Jamaica Birding Trip 2013 Part II
10,000 Birds
MAY 10, 2013
Other than paying a visit to the beautiful Frenchman’s Cove and Blue Lagoon for some photographs of the tropical paradise-like scenery and stopping at the Blue Cafe on my back up to the Blue Mountains for some curried goat and amazing chocolate rum cake, the drive back up the Blue Mountains was relatively uneventful.
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176 Coast Guard Defends Medical Practice on Animals
Critter News
APRIL 19, 2012
The Coast Guard is defending its practice of using live animals in its combat medical training after an activist group released a video on Wednesday of a goat’s legs being removed with tree trimmers during what it said was training for agency personnel. The courses do involve “live tissue training using live animals,” Lt.
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100 On Objections to Slaughterhouses Not Sandwich Shops
Animal Person
MARCH 31, 2009
Briefly: Zoning board in Buffalo unanimously approved plans for a slaughterhouse (as in, a place where chickens, goats, lambs and calves will be killed and chopped up). The inaugural winner would be John Carbonaro, who found an article called " Slaughterhouse in Buffalo Wins Zoning Approval."
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100 Birding Mount Rainier National Park
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 22, 2011
Once he was awake and we were all fed we made our way up the top of the hill to the north of the Visitor Center via the Nature Trail and enjoyed the stunning view to be had there, to say nothing of the herd of five Mountain Goats that were pointed out to us climbing the opposite ridge.
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The Wood-Warblers Are Back In New York City!
10,000 Birds
MAY 5, 2014
This past weekend the listservs, Facebook, text services, Twitter, word-of-mouth, weather radar, the calendar, and the entrails of a sacrificial goat all indicated that migration was happening. And was it ever! Reports abounded of a huge variety of birds, from thrushes to nightjars, terns to vireos. And, of course, the wood-warblers.
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Animal Rights Zone Launches Today
Animal Person
APRIL 21, 2009
The goal is to provide blogospheric content that is easy to find, and from a variety of sources. On the left, you'll see this: Concepts. Project Treadstone. Responsible Policies. More >> Animals. More >> Category. More >> Players. New York Times. Software.
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4 The Love Of Animals
MAY 2, 2011
receives a cow, goat, sheep or other animal, along with training in its care and training in environmentally friendly agriculture. Heifer is an organization that allows people to make a donation, via Heifer.org , that can help a family in need of food, income and opportunity.
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And Man Created Dog
4 The Love Of Animals
AUGUST 2, 2010
The Birth of the Herding Dog ” – Meet Miller, an adorable Pyreneese dog who was born and raised among the goats he herds for his owner. “ “ The Start of the Domestic Dog ” – When early man began leaving food scraps beside a dwindling campfire, dogs followed their noses, and domestication began. “
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The Bee-eaters of Africa
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 14, 2012
Northern Carmine Bee-eater riding an Arabian Bustard by Markus Lilje/Rockjumper Birding Tours Northern Carmine Bee-eaters in particular are masters of this trait, and rides range from elephants, donkeys and goats to Kori and Arabian Bustards, Abyssinian Ground Hornbills and a variety of other larger birds and mammals.
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266 Get Your Goat
Animal Ethics
MAY 25, 2009
Here is a New York Times story about urban slaughterhouses.
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A Chance for Bliss
4 The Love Of Animals
JULY 5, 2011
Currently, A Chance for Bliss sanctuary is home to 96 residents including 25 horses, 22 dogs, 8 goats, 7 pot belly pigs , 4 sheep, 2 steers, 5 ducks, 5 geese, 5 cockatiels, 4 rabbits, 3 chickens, 3 cats, 1 turkey, a one-winged pigeon, Hines, and a turtle, Bart. The oldest dog, Max, is 17, while the oldest horse, Prince is 36.
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100 On Peaceable Kingdom, Part Deux
Animal Person
NOVEMBER 13, 2009
The voices of Jim Vandersluis and Cheri Ezell-Vandersluis of Maple Farm Sanctuary were especially poignant, and the anguish in their faces--in their eyes--jumps off the screen as they explain how and when it hit them that the business of raising goats for milk requires surrendering the babies to be slaughtered.
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Listen Today on WALO Radio
Animal Person
MARCH 30, 2009
The University of Puerto Rico, an "1862" LGU founded in 1900, operates a slaughter facility killing small ruminants -- typically goats and sheep, cattle being large ruminants. There's an Archive icon for possible later listening. Ruminants are four-footed, hoofed, even-toed, cud-chewing mammals with four stomachs.
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Revenge Birding (Shanghai, early June 2022)
10,000 Birds
JUNE 9, 2022
“I’m doing this for revenge” sing the Mountain Goats in their most recent song, “ Training Montage “ It is very good, though I feel it could be even better without the last 50 seconds or so. Well, there is something better, I guess – ending the post with a reference to the beginning of the post.
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Little Big Year Week 33: Yellowstone
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 3, 2018
The Rocky Mountain Goats were the same thing, saw them, got a shot, but from 800 yards away, it really isn’t much to write home about. You know, the Bison, Elk, Bears and Wolves. We did not ever see a Grizzly Bear, but we did see a Black Bear , although it was way too far away for a picture. Here are the rest of the animals that we did see.
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