AVMA News

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

A national shortage of an important cattle reproduction drug has prompted the Food and Drug Administration to allow a similar but unapproved product to be imported and used on a temporary basis.

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Cattle 241

10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2020

It was clearly a Cattle Egret , due to the orange feathers, but it is June! Cattle Egret should not be in breeding plumage in June in the north of Australia! Cattle Egret have been recorded in Australia since 1948. They are usually observed in flocks around cattle, but this one was alone. Cattle Egret.

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Cattle Breeding Australia Birds 251

AVMA News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

dairy cattle after its initial discovery in that species this spring. The outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI, more specifically avian influenza type A H5N1), continues among U.S.

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AVMA News

APRIL 4, 2024

A herd of dairy cattle in Ohio has been infected with highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), increasing the number of states with dairy operations affected by the virus to six.

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Cows Ohio Cattle 506

AVMA News

APRIL 2, 2024

More dairy cattle in Idaho, New Mexico, and Texas have tested positive for highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (HPAI).

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AVMA News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

The Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care International not only ensures the humane use and treatment of laboratory animals, but also applies its high standards to research programs involving cattle, poultry, and other livestock.

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Livestock Research Cattle Humane 277

AVMA News

MAY 21, 2024

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently announced in April and May that it approved several animal drugs, including those that treat congestive heart failure in dogs, and respiratory diseases in cattle and swine.

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AVMA News

JANUARY 3, 2024

The AVMA’s Committee on Antimicrobials (CoA) recently created one-pagers on antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) to help veterinarians make decisions on whether and when to pursue testing for patients, be they dogs, cats, cattle, or food fish.

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AVMA News

MAY 22, 2024

The federal government announced May 10 that it will devote $200 million to enhance its response efforts to highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI, more specifically avian influenza type A H5N1), particularly among dairy cattle.

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Cows Cattle 322

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 23, 2017

The real shock came, when at the last minute, I realized that they were not Greater Egrets , nor the smaller Snowy Egrets , but Cattle Egrets – Bubulcus ibis. With one chance to fire off a quick shot, my camera fixed with the 500MM lens, thru the trees over my head, I was rewarded with a blurry, terrible shot, of Cattle Egrets !

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Cattle Mexico Cows Game 100

AVMA News

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Ed Le Tourneau grew up watching cowboys drive cattle. He rode his first bull at 15 and was hooked. Throughout the rest of his life, the California native balanced bull riding and veterinary medicine, from veterinary school to his senior years.

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California Cattle 292

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

One of the creatures that didn’t so much cross my path as follow it was a Cattle Egret that seemed to think my car was a suitable substitute for cows. And, when a Leopard Frog moved to escape my car, the Cattle Egret was proven correct. But I wasn’t done with Cattle Egret yet! Brown Anoles are a pretty squiggly meal.

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Cattle Leopards Cows Wildlife 105

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 16, 2024

The farm in question is large – 1,000 acres – and mainly arable, though a small herd of Redpolls (not birds, but a distinctive breed of cattle native to Suffolk) are a new addition. I was driving my small open-top car on a neighbour’s farm to see what I could find.

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Cattle Farming Breeding Birds 231

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The south-facing slope was once used to grow corn and graze cattle, but now sports three ecological homes, and is beginning a process of reforestation. So my birding buddy who is a botany professor lives on his family’s seven hectares (17 acres), a mere ten minutes’ drive from my house.

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Cattle Family Birds Mexico 205

AVMA News

APRIL 4, 2023

Speakers at the AVMA Humane Endings Symposium, held January 26-29 in Chicago, shared their personal experiences with depopulation of cattle and sheep for disease control and euthanasia of pigs after a fire.

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Euthanasia Psychology Sheep Chicago 284

Critter News

MARCH 30, 2009

Here is an interesting article about cattle rustling. Known for a distinctive hump at the base of the neck, Brahman cattle are rare here and would be easily spotted at a local auction, leading investigators to think the rustlers already had a buyer — or a butcher — lined up.

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Cattle Butcher Cows Investigation 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 15, 2022

Whenever we make a trip to Derby we pull over seven kilometres before we get to town at Myalls Bore and the 120 metre long cattle trough. We have seen the cattle trough enough times to know there is not a lot of bird-life using it, because it is easier for the birds to use the water that overflows from the bore to make a wetland.

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Cattle Species Rights Birds 211

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

A Short-eared Owl , a winter visit from Europe, appeared briefly hunting low over a distant ditch and two Cattle Egrets , very recent colonizers of the UK, flew in to forage between the feet of a group of cows.

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Shelters Cattle Wildlife Hunting 224

10,000 Birds

JUNE 11, 2020

Cattle Egret. Doing what cattle egrets do: communicating with cattle, even though these tend to be somewhat dull conversation partners. Not a great shot, admittedly, but a great-looking bird. Brown-headed Barbet. Some day, I will have to write a post just about barbets. Brown Rock Chat. Power to the ordinary people and birds.

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Cattle India Sanctuary Birds 208

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

The egret family were represented by the Great Egrets , Intermediate Egrets and a lone Cattle Egret. Cattle Egret. There were also Australasian Darters and Little Pied Cormorants. There was also a Black-necked Stork. Ducks, Ibis and Egrets.

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Cattle Ducks Zebras Australia 273

10,000 Birds

JULY 1, 2024

A Purple Heron on Chongming Island Cattle Egrets , also on Chongming Island Black-winged Stilts … … and Grey-headed Lapwings are their neighbors in the flooded rice paddies of the island. Some herons: a beautiful adult Black-crowned Night Heron … … and a rather less attractive kindergarten of the same species.

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Giraffes Rabbits Birds Breeding 192

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The often overlooked Cattle Egret has legs that turn bright pink during this brief courtship period. Our trees do not turn from green to orange as in temperate regions, but the onset of courtship plumage gives rise to an equally extravagant burst of colour – albeit on a much more minute scale!

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Cattle Bears Breeding Animal 187

10,000 Birds

APRIL 30, 2023

The cattle moved away from the flooded areas and the area beside the highway is home to many species of birds. This resulted in no large flocks of Oriental Pratincoles in the area during the past few months and less Terns than in other years when there have been more locusts present.

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Cattle Ducks Species Birds 147

10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2024

The entertainment consisted of a group of 8 Grasshopper Sparrows and Cattle Egret attending to a small herd of – wait for it – cattle. We unpacked the sandwiches and the telescopes – an essential piece of equipment for all sites we visited – and munched our Mexican cheese sarnies while watching Mexican Duck.

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Ducks Emotional Cattle Owls 157

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 8, 2019

The Cattle Egret (or Eastern Cattle Egret , to be exact, but that would mess with my alphabetic order) can be seen in farmland around Shanghai. Instead of cattle, it nowadays often follows tractors ploughing the fields and thus stirring up small animals. A thoroughly modern bird.

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Germany Cattle Blackbirds Birds 130

10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2021

Attempting a photograph of the cattle beside the highway was pointless, because you only got photographs of locusts! Recently the highway has been covered in locusts and you can’t avoid them. It did not matter which way you looked there were thousands of locusts. The recent swarms of locusts.

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Cattle Breeding Family Rights 262

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

There are always stray cattle to watch out for, but we prefer to minimize the risk of hitting animals by leaving on road trips until a couple of hours after sunrise. Cockatoo Creek had stopped flowing many months ago, but the water that remained was a good water source for the cattle in the area and also the birdlife.

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Cattle Stray Australia Animal 191

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

One of the threats to the Blood Pheasant comes from overgrazing by cattle. The paper describing this then daringly suggests that these preferences might be related to food availability. So, researchers looked at the habitat use of Blood Pheasants as related to the presence of livestock.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2016

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?

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Cattle 2016 Bats New York 156

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

One guide has been taking care of cattle. ” We are currently offering the opportunity of a lifetime to see a Harpy Eagle that is nesting in the Amazon lowlands, and guides are ready to work! Birding guides have been working hard to keep trails open at the lodges. Another – raising and selling trout to survive.

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Ecuador Birds 2019 Cattle 260

10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2021

We were even more delighted as we followed some cattle tracks to discover not only more bird species than we had hoped, but also more Yellow-billed Spoonbills. That was our first Yellow-billed Spoonbill for 2021, so that was exciting in itself.

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Breeding Australia Cattle Family 242

10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2020

But all this changed with the arrival of Europeans, and their cattle. Also, as ranchers increasingly moved their free-range cattle into feedlots, they settled down and became incredibly numerous. The Brown-headed “Bison-birds” learned to be Cowbirds, and expanded their range coast-to-coast, and into almost all of Mexico.

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Blackbirds Mexico Cattle Birds 155

SalesFuel

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Rural practices may specialize in large animal services and make house calls for cattle, horses or sheep. Suburban practices may primarily serve dogs, cats, hamsters, fish, and other common household pets. Veterinarians study for four years to obtain a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 27, 2015

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. The first farm on the left, where all the cattle are? He likes it there. Sure, the looks were distant.

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Cattle Bald Eagle Florida Endangered Species 200

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

There had to be at least 100 or more, and when I got closer, I was excited to find several Cattle Egrets ( Bubulcus ibis ), a species of which a decent photograph had always eluded me. There were not only Cattle Egrets and Great Egrets ( Ardea alba ) but Snowy Egrets ( Egretta thula ) as well.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2024

Until recently the cattle that grazed here were tethered, but they are now allowed to range freely, and by doing so they have opened up the marsh considerably, creating fine habitat. The marshes were looking as good as I have ever seen them.

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Cyprus Tethering Breeding Cattle 219

10,000 Birds

JULY 14, 2019

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. July birding in the Northern Hemisphere may be slow, but you’ve got to love those adorable baby birds!

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2019 Cattle New York Birds 133