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 408

AVMA News

MAY 22, 2024

Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced April 26 it will issue a final rule that mandates electronic identification (EID) tags for interstate movement of certain cattle and bison to prevent disease outbreaks.

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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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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 275

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

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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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

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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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 317

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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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 336

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 329

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

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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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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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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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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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 239

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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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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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2013

That was not all, a few days later, by one village rubbish dump, not far from Ahmedabad, we had more than 100 Egyptian Vultures (above); plus 20 more at the dead cattle dumping site at the outskirts of the city. Finally, when our SUV broke down in Gujarat, India, some three years ago, my first two Egyptians were flying above the road!

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2015

With almost 1200 species of birds in the Capital Region, the house and roof steadily filled with Egyptian Vultures, Barn Owls, Hornbills, Black Ibis, Cattle Egrets, Steppe Eagles , a multitude of songbirds and pigeons , as well as the occasional cobra or palm squirrel.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 27, 2014

Actually, despite the fact that central Asian steppes cover huge areas, Sociable Lapwings breed only around nomadic cattle herders’ settlements, which signifies that this species has evolved alongside wild ungulates, such as Blackbuck and Saiga antelopes, which kept the grass short.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 28, 2012

Little Blue Heron Red-shouldered Hawk American Bittern Sandhill Crane Great Blue Heron White Ibis Cattle Egret … 10,000 Birds is a Scrub Jay-level sponsor of the 15th Annual Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival.

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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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10,000 Birds

MAY 14, 2013

The most famous of these is Cattle Egret , but Masked Duck looked like it might make things interesting for a while and Antillean Nighthawk has more or less staked out a little niche for itself in extreme southern Florida. But as soon as I stepped out of the car, I could not one, but two Cattle Tyrants preening in the trees.

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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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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 264

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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10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2014

Then, as they grow, they must avoid being grazed – young cottonwoods are very popular with both cattle and wild browsers – or burnt – for they do not have the robust fire-endurance that many of Montana’s upland tree species do.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2015

In the north of the reserve, by the Tadoba Lake, a herd of Chital Deer is grazing, with a familiar sight of Cattle Egrets around them. Next to them are White-breasted and Common Kingfishers , while Cattle Egrets are spread among both deer and pigs. Grey-headed Fish Eagle Copyright © Nitin Bhardwaj. One Chital is curiously watching us.

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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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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

MARCH 19, 2020

Cattle Egrets using public transport. Alone time. Taking a bath …. And drying on a giraffe with your friends. What a life. Kingfishers – the poor man`s Pittas? African Pygmy Kingfisher. Brown-hooded Kingfisher. ” The Red-billed Quelea is regarded as the most numerous undomesticated bird on earth.

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South Africa Giraffes Africa Birds 245

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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