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Whooping Crane at Joe Overstreet Road

10,000 Birds

As of 2008 only 31 of the 289 cranes released into central Florida were still alive. 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. He likes it there.

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Cow Birds

10,000 Birds

It didn’t take much imagination to name Cowbirds or Cattle Egrets or Cattle Tyrants , but there’s more fantasy, even more wit, involved in the naming of other bovine birds. Where Are You Birding This First Weekend of July 2008? They’re all named for livestock. at Princeton University in 1990.

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Photo Essay: Green-rumped Parrotlets from Egg to Adult

10,000 Birds

Back in October 2008, in his first field job out of school, he helped a Cornell PhD student, Karl, with his dissertation on vocal communication in Green-rumped Parrotlets Forpus passerinus. Naturally, we wanted to hear more about parrotlets, so Nick graciously shared the beautiful photo-essay below.

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Mad Cow Disease Appears in California

Critter News

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. Nationally, California ranks behind Texas, Kansas and Nebraska in total cattle numbers. The state also hosts 1.84

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Agriculture Fears Possible "Cow Tax"

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4, 2008 by the Environmental Protection Agency to charge a fee for air-polluting cows and hogs. It would require farms or ranches with more than 25 dairy cows, 50 beef cattle or 200 hogs to pay an annual fee of about $175 for each dairy cow, $87.50 per head of beef cattle and $20 for each hog.

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The Great Bustard Search is On (1)

10,000 Birds

Yours truly counting birds in the Pastures of Great Bustard from the Russian made UAZ 4×4 in February 2008. In breeding season grazing cattle may walk through the nest, breaking the eggs, while wild and domestic pigs may eat both eggs and chicks. What treats do they face?

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Stray thoughts on customer experience trends

Sales and Marketing Management

In this case, they’re like the cattle that couldn’t be brought back into the herd before the gates closed on the corral. The most recent version of this approach was published in Harvard Business Review in the 2008 article “ Putting the Service Profit Chain to Work ” by James L. Heskett, Thomas O. Jones, Gary W. Loveman, W.