10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Some African Skimmers pass by some African Buffalo. At any rate there are three species, the Black Skimmer (which isn’t that much blacker than the others) which is found in the Americas, the Indian Skimmer, which is the most vulnerable member of the family, and the African Skimmer, which is widespread but nowhere common in Africa.

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Uganda Madagascar Buffalo Africa 234

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2012

He had mistakenly walked into a nice clump of buffalo bean whilst chasing a Singing Cisticola. Buffalo bean will make grown men cry and literally drives you insane for hours. Just make sure to carry extra fuel and watch out for buffalo bean! I’ll never forget the sight.

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Zimbabwe Buffalo Mozambique South Africa 236

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Cows and water buffaloes grazing the dried up lakebed under the imposing shadow of Mt. Scattered Pied Avocets , Spotted Redshanks in good numbers, cows and water buffaloes grazing, two Black Storks , bare mudbar and… a perched eagle! I opt for the bird richest section of the lake, visible from the eastern dyke.

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Greece Boars Woodpeckers Eagles 259

10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2019

Asian water buffaloes were brought to Greece by Ottoman Turks centuries ago and by now, they have developed into a separate race, the Greek buffalo, which is protected as an old domestic breed. Out of some 4000 buffaloes still being kept in Greece, about 3000 are at this lake. Then, there was a herd of buffaloes.

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Greece Pelicans Buffalo Fish 203

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 10, 2013

This is beyond a parent bird trying to lure a predator away from the nest, or a group of buffalos driving off a pack of lions from a calf. This is clearly the most altruistic behaviour I have ever seen, and I fail to explain it.

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Falcons Buffalo Lions Groups 248

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

As someone who lives close enough to Buffalo to feel both tremendous fear and relief regarding the 7 feet of snow that engulfed that part of Western NY, I can assure you: November weather is WILD. No snow here!

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Buffalo 2014 New York Birds 176

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Kerkini’s most famous mammal is the domesticated Water Buffalo – large herds are kept around the lake. Herds of domesticated Water Buffalo can be seen around the lake A week’s winter birding should produce a tally of anything from 120 to 130 species, depending on how hard you work, luck and the weather.

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Greece Pelicans Buffalo Geese 246

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2022

Here, nervous Cattle Egrets trying to quit smoking pace restlessly on buffalos. The closest we got to habitat similar to Dongfang was on the last day of the trip, close to Haikou airport, at Dongzhai. This is an area of narrow, slightly elevated roads passing muddy fields and the occasional fishpond.

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Micronesia Branding Buffalo Rabbits 235

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2024

And then he did something incredible: the man made notes in his guidebook… On a first trip to Kruger with Elephant , Lion , Cape Buffalo , Kudu , Steenbok , vultures and so much else going on this ended up being nothing more than an oddity, a “ huh, look at that ” moment. Sofar, nothing new.

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South Africa 2002 Angola Africa 245

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

You are certain to see Greater One-horned Rhinoceros , Water Buffalo and Hog Deer , and with a bit of luck Smooth-coated Otters. Travel onto the world famous Kaziranga National Park and you will have very good chances of more endangered species such as Pallas’s Fish Eagle , vultures, Swamp Francolin , and both species of Adjutant Storks.

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India Wildlife Tigers Rhinoceros 243

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 26, 2016

In addition to the Grizzly Bears , I was able to photograph Woodland Buffalo , squirrels, deer, Red Fox , and even a herd of Yaks. While I was actually photographing a herd of buffalo, this Merlin buzzed my head several times. The number one bird on my list was the iconic Horned Puffin.

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Grizzly Bear Alaska Bears Puffins 154

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Bufflehead comes from the now archaic word buffle , meaning ‘buffalo.’ ’ Bufflehead is the condensed version of ‘Buffalo Head’, the name these ducks were originally given. I suppose the densely feathered, black and white head of the drake does slightly resemble a buffalo’s head.

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Buffalo Jordan Ducks 2006 119

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2012

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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Trinidad Cattle Fast Food Blackbirds 209

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2022

What I do remember is Irv Weinstein, Buffalo’s favorite news guy. If a reporter would have rambled on about fishing or bird migration or the biggest, oldest trees in the area, I would have been all ears but no, I don’t recall any reporting on such esteemed subjects as those.

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Costa Rica Buffalo Sparrows Rights 246

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2015

Bigger than the African Buffalo or the American Bison, it is the largest land animal after the Elephant, Rhino, the Hippopotamus and the Giraffe. On our way back, our guide notices a shadow in the bamboo and tells the driver to reverse.

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Tigers Boars India Chickens 255

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2012

He interpreted the bones, also at Klasies but other sites in South Africa as well, to indicate that human ancestors hunted only Eland until they became fully modern very recently, then they started hunting the much more dangerous and harder to hunt Buffalo. Any buffalo bones from prior to that transition were obviously scavenged.

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Humane Lions Buffalo Hunting 165

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

in psychology from the University of Buffalo. Oriental Scops Owls are quite possibly my favorite bird at Nanhui. Bird-shaped cuteness. Of course, this would probably get me a telling off from Mark J. Estren, a Ph.D. Interestingly, striving for cuteness has also changed the appearance of Mickey Mouse.

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Birds Tail Banding Buffalo Psychology 264

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2016

also the crime rate lower than in developed countries, stable politics, reasonable prices and landscapes as green as can be.

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Africa Uganda Gorillas Rwanda 173

Animal Person

MARCH 31, 2009

The inaugural winner would be John Carbonaro, who found an article called " Slaughterhouse in Buffalo Wins Zoning Approval." 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).

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Buffalo Lamb Goats Protest 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 16, 2011

………… Lament for a Lost Way of Life We used to follow the buffalo across the endless plains Laying eggs in grassland nests and listening to the cranes. Though I leave you behind, child of mine, Never to hear you cry and whine, You I still love and I’ll be up above Watching you give nestlings the shove.

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Eggs Buffalo Sparrows Humane 171

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

Although it was nothing like going from New York to California or even Buffalo, New York to North Carolina, a change of location, however slight, can bring new birds especially in Costa Rica. As is usual for a birder moving to a new place, I couldn’t wait to see what the new yard would bring.

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Costa Rica Barn Owls Stray Dog Blackbirds 202

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

MEGA: Buffalo Brown Booby – Steve Brenner, Nemesis Bird. Happy Brown Booby Day: June 11, 2012 – Cathy Miller, Pluff Mud Perspectives. A Grounded Brown Booby – Clare M, 10,000 Birds. Brown Booby in Cape May – Corey Finger, 10,000 Birds. Blue-footed Booby , Sula nebouxii.

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Birds Buffalo Pelicans 2012 239

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Access is restricted, and the livestock referred to are highly temperamental water buffalo. Visitors to T&T may be familiar with the area – the famed Aripo Livestock Station. Birding here is interesting as it is a mix of wet pastures along the foothills of Trinidad’s Northern Range.

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Trinidad Livestock 2015 Buffalo 220

10,000 Birds

JULY 13, 2023

We sat outdoors, shaded by old plane trees and cooled by a short shower falling in the bright sunlight.

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Greece Pelicans Stray Dog Tortoises 246

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 16, 2019

and the Buffalo native Fred Szatkowki. Rising himself is a retired mathematics professor at the University of Buffalo, and most of his essays are centered on the avifauna of the “Niagara Frontier.”

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Buffalo 2018 Sanctuary Eagles 100

AnimalEquality.net

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

In Deonar, several buffaloes attempted to… Source Between October and December 2023, investigators documented abuse at six facilities in Maharashtra and Kerala. Here’s what they found: In many instances, animals were milked one last time before being killed.

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Investigation illegal Slaughtered Slaughter 90

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 18, 2013

When I was a preschooler, I wasn’t allowed to watch much television, but I did get a double-dose of public programming — the PBS station out of Buffalo and the CBC beaming across the border from Ontario both showed a lot of material that met with my mother’s approval and my own.

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Woodchucks Buffalo Massachusetts Fox 191

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 18, 2013

It is responsible for some of the happiest moments of my childhood, the trips to the Buffalo Museum of Science that kindled my passion for nature; and yet, the quest for specimens ushered some of my favorite species of birds out of the world. Taxidermy is a bizarre art. It is driven by love for animals, but relies on their deaths to exist.

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Elephants Gorillas Buffalo Mammals 165

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

The task of wrestling this topic down into something that the human mind can manage, without losing sight of the big picture because it’s snowing in Buffalo, is likely to be the task of a lifetime for many science communicators. Few issues of our day are as huge, in scope or in implication, as climate change.

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Netherlands Buffalo Science Penguins 162

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2011

A typical day spent in the crater will produce sightings of numerous giant African Elephant bulls, real great tuskers (interestingly the steep slopes of the crater walls discourage family herds of elephant as well as Giraffe), 1,000’s of very approachable Blue Wildebeest, Plains Zebra, Cape Buffalo and gazelle, East Africa’s most easily seen Black (..)

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Tanzania Africa Stud Leopards 249

10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2013

They can be boiled or roasted like potatoes, and they can also be pounded into a flour.

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Idaho Mules Wolves Buffalo 168

Critter News

OCTOBER 16, 2009

Twain wrote a searing account of an English earl’s behavior on a buffalo hunt (in “Man’s Place in the Animal World”) and wrote an impassioned anti-bullfighting novella (A Horse’s Tale). Interesting. The book also contains writings by Twain against vivisection.

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Animal Cruelty Cruelty Vivisection Animal 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2016

It’s the only park I have ever been to that not only have I seen all five of the Big Five (Lion, Leopard, African Buffalo, White Rhino and African Elephant) in, but seen them all on the same day. Madikwe may have been farmland once upon a time but these days it has been fully restored as an astonishing game reserve.

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South Africa Leopards Giraffes Africa 186

4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 6, 2013

The fabric is hand selected and each bag is hand made in Buffalo, New York! It’s really quiet awesome, you will wonder how you ever walked your dog without it. The Do-G-Bag comes in a variety of colors. You can even email them if you want a certain color or different size strap. The post The Do-G-Bag, your new best friend!

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Buffalo New York Dogs Animal 100

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. More >> Places.

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Animal Rights Project Treadstone Rights Responsible Policies 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 28, 2018

In the first full day, we have seen dozens each of giraffes, zebra, warthogs, elephants, 12 rhinos, 30 hippos, 3 Cape Buffalo, crocodiles, jackals, monkeys, baboons, literally a thousand impala, and at least 10 different antelope type animals.

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South Africa Africa Rhinos Mongoose 142

4 The Love Of Animals

DECEMBER 6, 2010

An entire lion pride battles a large buffalo to down the beast. Big Cat Odyssey chronicles their meticulous work over three decades of filming, photographing and documenting the behavior of big cat species in Botswana. Yes, you read that right, this has been 30 years in the making, and you don’t want to miss it!

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Cats Leopards Lions Botswana 100