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Kansas Related Topics 
AVMA News
MARCH 26, 2024
State and federal officials continue to investigate after highly pathogenic avian influenza is identified in clinical samples obtained from dairy cattle in Texas and Kansas
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AVMA News
APRIL 2, 2024
Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced April 1 and 2 that these mark the first known cases of HPAI in cattle in Idaho and New Mexico, and add to the two detections in Texas and two in Kansas that were announced on March 25.
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AVMA News
JULY 29, 2024
The Association of Avian Veterinarians (AAV) held its annual meeting from June 28-July 1 in Kansas City, Missouri. The association presented awards and seated new officials.
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AVMA News
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
Tera Rooney Barnhardt talks about her experiences as a private practice owner in southwest Kansas, specializing in the care of beef, dairy, and calf clients.
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AVMA News
MAY 29, 2023
Despite the many honorary degrees Temple Grandin, PhD, has received for her advocacy on behalf of animals and autistic people, she received her first honorary veterinary degree this May.
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AVMA News
JUNE 5, 2023
Dignitaries gathered this May in Manhattan, Kansas, for a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NABF), a cutting-edge animal disease research facility replacing the Plum Island Animal Disease Center in New York.
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AVMA News
JUNE 12, 2025
The Association of American Feed Control Officials has partnered with the Kansas State University Olathe Innovation Campus to launch a new animal food ingredient review process called the Scientific Review of Ingredient Submissions program.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 11, 2018
The sun was setting fast as my mom and I left Council Grove, Kansas, after a delicious steak dinner and a three hour expedition across the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve. We loved the undulating green of the Kansas Flint Hills, and the positive endorphins of the hike pumped through our veins. There was a lake here?
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Critter News
DECEMBER 25, 2009
We recently posted about the University of Kansas which, in response to USDA-cited lab violations, is spending about $1 million on lab renovations (although now I'm hearing it's more like $700,000.) Tags: animal research Kansas PETA. Sorry for the cynicism, but.HAH! Good luck with that argument! The NIH doesn't take back grant money.
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Critter News
DECEMBER 22, 2009
Kansas University Medical Center was nailed by USDA inspectors for violations including improper treatment for sick animals, aging facilities and failing to provide appropriate enrichment opportunities for animals who appear to be under psychological stress.
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Critter News
MARCH 14, 2009
It's a two-week old kitten from Kansas. In February she had to put one down because of illness. The other is also quite ill and will probably not last out the year. Friday she showed me the new kitten she will be purchasing. The breeder will only ship her when she is old enough to be separated from her mother.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 12, 2012
Toucans tell you that you aren’t in Kansas anymore. There’s something about a toucan, isn’t there? They affirm that the tropics are true, not just myths manufactured to make those of us with winter jealous. Thanks to a childhood steeped in sugary cereal, I’ve always had a soft spot for Toucan Sam and his ilk.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 22, 2013
Kansas Jayhawks. Liberty Flames (represented by their American Bald Eagle, Sparky). Temple Owls. Iowa State Cyclones (represented by Cy the Cardinal). Louisville Cardinals. LIU-Brooklyn Blackbirds. Creighton Bluejays. Marquette Golden Eagles.
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10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 14, 2021
The Collective added six new states in the past three years, but none have eclipsed the century mark: Wisconsin ( 74 ), Utah (55), Hawaii (38), Oklahoma (18), Rhode Island (9), and Connecticut (5).
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10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 28, 2019
In addition to spotting exciting new species in Florida, including the rare Snail Kite, travel across the country brought me into contact with birds in Oregon, California, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Alabama, and more. 2018 proved to be one of my best birding years ever.
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 15, 2011
Everything is coming to a head in Kansas. Noted Biologists, farmers and ranchers are also interviewed as we take a look at how our society operates in a world we too often think that we are independent of. Do urban/suburban people really get the big picture?
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
But an excerpt from “Train to Kansas City”, a song also covered by the Shop Assistants. Or if you like Kansas City but dislike trains, you can listen to “ Kansas City ” by Okkervil River. Probably not containing Blood Pheasant blood, though. This song mentions R.E.M.,
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10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 22, 2021
I realize I’m not in Kansas (well, California) anymore. Four moments (and species) stand out in my own personal birding renaissance: I put an improvised birdbath in my yard to see if I can get the House Sparrows to stop munching on my lettuce plants, and a stunning Black-vented Oriole arrives to bathe.
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Critter News
APRIL 22, 2010
An animal rights activist has offered $30,000 to anyone who facilitates the freeing of primates, or the end of vivisection, at the University of Kansas, a place cited for numerous animal welfare violations. Tags: University of Kansas animal research vivisection primates. He does not condone violent or illegal acts.
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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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10,000 Birds
JULY 5, 2024
But suffice it to say that when a Black-vented Oriole turned up for a drink, I realized I wasn’t in Kansas anymore. (Or, Black-vented Oriole : trigger bird #1 It’s an unnecessarily long story as to why I first put a birdbath in my backyard. Or, more exactly, I wasn’t in California, and then Baja California, any more.)
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 26, 2013
First, we were on a schedule that, while not tight, did involve being in Kansas City before nightfall. Lest you think that modern technology robbed all the challenge from my hunt, though, I would point out that there were a couple of confounding factors.
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10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 23, 2019
I don’t think I have added any new species, but I did add Alaska, Kansas, and Oklahoma to the group state list. Texas and Florida round out the Top 5. 10,000 Birds also has an eBird profile and since I as a beat writer in 2016, I have been a part of that group. Ten years seems like a good time to look forward as well.
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Critter News
DECEMBER 28, 2009
This week's stories: PETA demands that the National Institutes of Health take back grant money awarded to the University of Kansas; The Canadian Association of Zoos and Aquariums prepares to investigate the Calgary Zoo next year; Convicted dog fighter Michael Vick receives an award in courage from the Philadelphia Eagles; Canada tries to find a public (..)
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 15, 2021
In the year 2000, the world held their breath as ornithologists from the Smithsonian and the University of Kansas led an expedition into the southern Rupununi region. Only a handful of small, fragmented populations were believed to exist in Venezuela and possibly parts of Colombia.
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4 The Love Of Animals
APRIL 2, 2013
Gulf Coast over Georgetown and LaSalle over Kansas St, proving that mayhem is everywhere making it difficult for even the most knowledgeable basketball analysts to predict what will happen. Among the upsets the dolphins correctly predicted were Wichita St. over Gonzaga, Fla.
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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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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 8, 2018
I would add new sightings to my current year list, which has stood at 250 since the Bell’s Vireo I spotted in Kansas on September 7th. I would tick off migrating songbirds, from tanagers to vireos and everything in between. But it was not to be.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 23, 2020
But before we get into new predictions, let’s take a look at what I predicted would be my next ten birds way back in 2015 when Barack Obama was still president, the Kansas City Royals were working their way to a World Series victory, and I was still on the young side of forty. Below are my predictions exactly as I made them.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 10, 2018
On eBird profile pages, size matters: tiny Delaware is barely noticeable whereas Nebraska, Kansas, and Missouri are conspicuous. Other states, such as North Dakota and Arkansas, were also gray, but those seemed less troublesome, since I have never visited either state. But that’s better than other parts of the country, such as the U.S.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 5, 2017
It only takes a few looks at some of the jays in Mexico to know that Kansas is definitely on the far side of some distant rainbow, and if we go birding in the Amazon, Borneo, or New Guinea, you might wonder if you are still on the same bird planet.
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 13, 2018
Even some states that technically have checklists barely qualify: the great state of Illinois has just a single checklist with two species (from an airport).
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APRIL 20, 2012
Tom Harvy, the holder of the Kansas Zoo, stated that Isabella managed to perform all her maternal duties: she did not notice the difference between species, feeding, cleaning and licking the cubs permanently.
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 15, 2019
There is, however, an eBird hotspot for the Geographical Center of the Continental United States , so be sure to submit a checklist next time you’re in that part of Smith County, Kansas.
113 Sales and Marketing Management
SEPTEMBER 1, 2017
His theory: Why go to Manhattan for great steak when you can go to where the steak is — Omaha, Kansas City or San Antonio — and have a totally new experience around your team dinner? Peter Lombard is founder of Insouciance Abroad, a company that, among other things, plans corporate offsites that have lasting impact.
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FEBRUARY 26, 2019
If you live in Kansas City or Cleveland or Dallas, people are willing to talk to you. I manufactured leisure furniture and then I manufactured imprinted sportswear, and I sold those into Fortune 500 companies. Anybody who doesn’t sell in New York City has no [expletive] idea what a sale is.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 22, 2012
As bad as birders think photographers are and photographers think birders are neither is as bad as the jerk who took a pot shot at a Snowy Owl in Cheyenne Bottoms Wildlife Area, near Great Bend, Kansas. The bird was brought in to a veterinarian but it was too late and the owl died.
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MARCH 15, 2012
A Kansas Snowy Owl that was seen by hundreds of birders was struck and killed by a car. At death, it weighed 876 grams, about half what a healthy owl should weight.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 24, 2014
A hero of the Rip Van Winkle Rod & Gun Club is – no doubt – Bob Aronsohn, who lives in Kansas and in December 2013 celebrated killing his 150,000th crow.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 15, 2021
The author, Steve Hilty, received his PhD in Zoology from the University of Arizona and is currently a Research Associate in Ornithology at the Biodiversity Institute & Natural History Museum of the University of Kansas.
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 30, 2018
Quivira NWR (Kansas). Lee Metcalf NWR (Montana). Malheur NWR (Oregon). Minnesota Valley NWR (Minnesota). Ottawa NWR (Ohio). Parker River NWR (Massachusetts). Pea Island NWR (North Carolina). Santa Ana NWR (Texas). Marks NWR (Florida). A Google map (which is also the image at the top of this post) with all 25 locations is here.
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 15, 2022
As a popular game bird, the Ring-necked Pheasant seems to have such high importance in the US that there are several papers just discussing the species in individual US states. Examples: California. Connecticut. New Jersey. North Dakota. Rhode Island. South Dakota. Washington. Wisconsin. I particularly like this photo of a female at Nanhui.
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 6, 2020
The Peterson Field Guide to Birds of Eastern and Central North America, Seventh Edition covers resident and migratory birds from the Atlantic coast west to a line that runs roughly along the 100th meridian (western border of Nunavit and Manitoba, down through the Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, most of Oklahoma, and the eastern part of Texas).
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Sales and Marketing Management
JUNE 14, 2020
I had this experience when I was 12 years old, at a basketball camp led by Coach Gene Keady, a legend in Kansas for having earned Junior College Coach of the Year three times while at Hutchinson Junior College. Today, everyone is a leader, and it culminates in how we make others feel.
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