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The Cattle Egret Expansion

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He blogs at The Nightjar – The tales of an Upstate New York Birder and otherwise stays busy being an eBird reviewer, taking care of his kids, and, recently, planning a trip to Europe where he hopes to see lots of new birds. I’d like to introduce you to a diminutive heron, the Cattle Egret Bubuclus ibis. coromandus.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of October 2016)

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He and his friend Seth did find one good bird at Jacob Riis Park, a continuing Cattle Egret , which is common across large chunks of the world but was only Corey’s sixth sighting in New York State, with the fifth having been the same individual bird during the week last week. How about you? How about you? Happy Halloween!

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Awesome Birding at Aripo Savannah

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The lush pastures of the Aripo Livestock Station sustained herds of happy Buffalypso , a special breed of T&T beef cattle named for their Water Buffalo heritage and Calypso-happy country. Where we entered the area, the savannah seemed more like Aripo Ranch. In fact, it was. In that regard, Aripo was amazing.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Second of July 2019)

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i got my fill of cygnets and goslings this weekend, but the best sighting was an adult Cattle Egret that apparently didn’t realize how far Upstate New York was from wherever it should be. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you?

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Sentient: a book review

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The altruistic vampire, back at the roost after a meal of horse or cattle blood, will regurgitate the blood to feed not only her own pup, but other adults and their pups too, all of this prompted by being groomed by the donee and, in particular, by being licked on the lips.

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Birding Nanhui, Shanghai, in September 2021

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Cattle Egrets have perfected that smudgy look. At least, I managed to get a The National reference into the blog eventually. A German friend of mine saw an earlier photo of mine of a Black-naped Oriole (a slightly more attractive one, though – a proper adult male). She got excited: “Birds with sunglasses!”

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Honey, I Shrunk The Dinosaurs!

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Whales emerge from within the larger group of mammals that includes cattle, deer, pigs, camels, with camels being the most deeply rooted. (So Lee Et Al, in the Science paper, and Darren in his blog post don’t give a reason for tends of millions of years of getting smaller, or why it was all happening so quickly. 1204026109).

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