10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

This can mean some interesting birding, if you can bear the Shanghai heat … Of course, the egrets and herons described in my last post are still around. Cattle Egret … though some of them seem to want to hide (which is really difficult for a white bird). Some cuckoo species.

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Tigers Cattle Breeding Bears 247

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Cattle Egret. And of course, there are all kinds of insects, spiders, dragonflies, caterpillars, etc. Little Egret: There is a shrimp farm by the seaside. Very easy work. Similar to the Chinese, birds do not seem to mind eating frogs and toads. Brown Shrike. Rodents seem to be less popular, or less available.

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Fish Rodents China Vegetarian 253

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2012

Of course we’ve all experienced the excruciating opposite of such an excursion, but when waves of new birds practically clamor for attention in quick succession, the feeling is exhilarating. Have you ever enjoyed one of those brilliant birding expeditions, the outing where every target species takes its cue with machine precision?

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Trinidad Fast Food Cattle Blackbirds 222

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 203

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

A vast congregation of Bald Eagles kept watch over a herd of cattle about to calve, up to seven in a single tree — no doubt awaiting delicious placentas. Plenty of Crows and Ravens , of course. Further up the river a pair of Common Mergansers swam swiftly out of view.

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Bald Eagle Falcons Geese Montana 220

10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2012

The population of parrotlets they studied was located on one of the many huge hatos (cattle ranches) in the Venezuelan llanos, a vast swath of flat flooded savannah in the central third of the country that drains into the Rio Orinoco. Over the course of the next several days, these pin feathers emerge and – poof!

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Eggs Venezuela Porcupines 2008 269

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 14, 2022

Bologna La Grassa may revel in the indulgence of its Parma ham, lasagne, and rich, fatty ragùs, and Venice may boast the bounty of the sea, but the rugged, hilly homeland of the ancient Etruscans is undoubtedly cattle country. Of course, a land of beefeaters needs butchers.

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2019 Butcher Livestock 2006 264

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Of course, we did, soaking in that slate blue beauty long enough to observe a successful hunt and more of its rangy, awkward flight. We had to search a little longer than Herbert may have wanted, but our first Shoebill sighting obscured any memory of effort or anxiety. The mighty Shoebill.

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Uganda Africa Penguins 2019 299

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2021

I guess the whole point about this band name is to suggest -ironically, of course – utter blandness. Cattle Egrets have perfected that smudgy look. The Oriental Dollarbird is of course named after the early US explorer Alexander Dollar (1713-1788), incidentally the same person who also gave the name to the US currency.

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LACS Birds France Japan 264

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2015

Heading south on a good surfaced road, we made slow progress through the herds of cattle, donkeys and goats that thronged the highway, until we finally reached the land of the Konso. Quality time was spent with a friendly Hamar family at their homestead of grass huts surrounding their cattle corral.

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Ethiopia Sudan Leopards Cattle 255

10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2020

Having observed the Cattle Egret in breeding plumage at the Derby Poo Ponds on June 19th we found ourselves at Windjana Gorge first thing the following morning. Sometimes everything appears normal, but of course it is far from normal. As we all well know there is something very different about 2020.

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2020 Australia Cattle Groups 264

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

Not that long ago, Costa Rica had one of the highest deforestation rates in the world, rainforests were razed to make way for hot and chiggery cattle pasture, and bot flies probably became more numerous than some bird populations. Hopefully, we can help them in time. … Extinction is forever. What a horror! What a disaster!

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Costa Rica Species Panama Falcons 268

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Nowhere else in Africa do the preconceived ideas of the continent really exist in such living detail; tall, red-robed Maasai herding their skinny cattle, endless grasslands studded with flat-topped Acacia trees and grazed by herds of zebras and wildebeest, and dramatic volcanic calderas brimming with big game and fierce predators!

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Tanzania Africa Stud Leopards 250

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Thus, the cattle we raise for meat and dairy are sometimes called Bos taurus while the extinct wild form is always called Bos primigenius. This is not entirely unknown among domestic animals, but many domesticates have no living wild version. Bringing animals that would require feed and water at that early stage would have been unwise.

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Turkey Columbus Spain Fowl 253

10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2023

And of course, the photos here show a female, as far as I can tell. Of course, this factoid should be presented with a photo of a male, not a female rosefinch. Of course, for the birds involved, this often leads to death. Apparently, this name is derived from the well-ordered patterns of the male.

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Blackbirds Birds Indonesia Bhutan 246

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 13, 2012

That Cattle Egret I found in Somerset County, August 2009? It is also, of course, more up-to-date. Of course, these are stories of over 460 species, condensed and informed by research gleaned from ornithological literature dating back to 1869. A scarce and very local summer resident in Salem County.

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New Jersey 2009 Bald Eagle New York City 241

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

And reports of birds nesting – not owls, of course, those weirdo snow fetishists, but other birds nesting – light up my life. We remember starlings not skylarks, House Sparrows not Eurasian Tree Sparrows , Cattle Egrets not… well, whatever we’ve forgotten because it didn’t do as well as the Cattle Egrets.

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Montana 2011 Bahamas Deer 170

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The HBW states that “even in their native range of Africa, they are considered pests due to their willingness to eat farmer’s crops and their prevalence on golf courses” I have to say, destroying golf courses clearly is something I hold in their favor. students comes in handy).

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Elephants Congo Birds Africa 147

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Upland Sandpipers were seen almost daily, on posts, in tall grass, in trees, and, of course, flying away from us. . In addition, of course, to birds like Baird’s Sparrow, Chestnut-collared Longspur, and Sharp-tailed Grouse (all of which were life birds for me, and all of which I failed to get decent photos).

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North Dakota Sparrows Birds Blackbirds 190

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 19, 2014

The point is, of course, that whales are not cows. Whales emerge from within the larger group of mammals that includes cattle, deer, pigs, camels, with camels being the most deeply rooted. (So So pigs are camels, as you probably already suspected.)

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Camels Whales Whaling Apes 241

10,000 Birds

JULY 26, 2014

Of course, there’s no such thing as a truly free market and even the natural world is subject to regulation. – Acclimatisation Societies of New Zealand – The Cattle Egret Expansion – Feral Cats Are An Invasive Species in North America (and elsewhere) – It’s a Myth – Isn’t It?

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Species Feral Cats Feral Miami 160

10,000 Birds

MAY 10, 2012

Little Blue and Tricolored Herons , Snowy , Great , and Cattle Egrets , a Laughing Falcon , Black Vultures, Blue-winged Teal , a Wood Stork , a nesting tree of Montezuma Oropendulas , and Ruddy Ground-Doves were just some of the species we saw on our short train ride into the refuge.

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Honduras Wildlife Monkeys Bats 189

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

The Great Miami Winter Bird Count, an event that transpired over the course of four days from February 13-16, set out to record this diversity for the first time in an organized manner as part of the overall Miami Birding Wave project. Cattle Egret: 133. A La Sagra’s Flycatcher, a Caribbean stray, continued at Charles Deering Estate.

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Miami 2015 United States Florida 192

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 24, 2012

It seems that they especially enjoy being around cattle, which helps lead to the number one cause of nest failure, trampling (the number two reason is predation). Well, that is almost too much to ask for! Often, nests are near villages, though sometimes they are found on the shores of salt lakes or on hills.

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Kazakhstan Cows 2009 Endangered Species 145

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 25, 2018

Of course there are plenty of Red-tailed Hawks ( Buteo jamaicensis ) around. Check out this image of a Great Egret ( Ardea alba ), Snowy Egret ( Egretta thula ) and Cattle Egret ( Bubulcus ibis ) together. This juvenile was photographed on the auto tour route at Colusa NWR.

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Wildlife Sacramento Bald Eagle Falcons 108

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2013

Of course, this raptor pattern baldness exists for a good reason, which is another of the distasteful aspects of vulturine biology. There’s no getting around the fact that they’re weird looking. Vultures famously feed on carrion. Dead things.

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California Condor Turkey North America Jordan 232

10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2023

May is a busy month for birds migrating through Shanghai – and of course, last May was completely missed due to the lockdown. During the breeding season, some Cattle Egrets look like teenage girls who have just discovered the existence of make-up, and consequently massively overdo it. It is probably all downhill from here.

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Birds Cattle Raised Mammals 130

10,000 Birds

MAY 2, 2016

Of course, I contacted Carlos Sanchez , alleged south Florida birder extraordinaire, to maximize the returns on what time I could spend. Of course not! There was even beer on the menu which I had to order, of course. On my recent short family vacation to Miami, I was granted a single day to get out and really bird like a madman.

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Florida Miami Birds Owls 165

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2016

Then, we became birders again, noting Common Mynas and Eastern Cattle Egrets on the terraced lawns, Yellow-footed Pigeons, European-collared and Red-collared Doves in the trees bordering the garden squares. A few seconds to stare and take a photograph before being run over by breathless tourists in search of the perfect Taj selfie.

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India Tigers Owls Birds 190

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2023

Cattle Egrets are thoroughly modern birds – they were among the first species to ditch mailed letters for faxes, then switched to email early, and now (at least in China) mostly communicate by WeChat. They are also early adopters with regard to their foraging – nowadays mostly following tractors rather than cattle.

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Birds Eggs Breeders McDonalds 130

10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2022

This is also why you very rarely find a photo of a giraffe on top of one of these posts – the other reason of course being that a giraffe photo would be relatively pointless in a birding blog. When Cattle Egrets go to the local discotheque, they tend to overdo their makeup a bit. It is sometimes necessary to find food though.

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Mountain Goats Singapore Giraffes Birds 147

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 29, 2016

They used to be but a burgeoning population in need of more living room and land for cattle and crops destroyed a fair portion of those rainforests during the 20th century. Over there on the Caribbean (that’s what we call the Atlantic Ocean in Costa Rica), the lowlands are supposed to be blanketed in lush, over-vegetated rainforests.

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Costa Rica San Jose Panama Nicaragua 169

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2019

And of course, there are Cattle Egrets ( Bubulcus ibis ) and several species of cowbirds that rarely stray too far from livestock. Of course, at Birds and Booze we advise limiting one’s ingestion of “Bobolinks” to this excellent saison. For most of history, beer has thrived in agrarian settings, too.

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Belgium Vermont Farming Europe 142

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Of course Culebra is beautiful and Flamenco Beach might be the prettiest beach I have ever visited. Cattle Egrets were easily found in any open areas, particularly around the airport and the eastern end of the island. And, of course, there were House Sparrows in town but I didn’t see a single starling the entire time!

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Puerto Rico Birds Sea Turtles Chickens 139

Animal Person

MAY 30, 2009

Elizabeth Parker , the "chair man " (my emphasis) of the Animal Agriculture Alliance at CattleNetwork, which apparently is "The Source for Cattle News." Of course, Lobo is missing the point entirely. And of course what we do is about the issues. Are we pinning people down and force-feeding them vegan burritos?

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Veal Crate HSUS Gestation Crates Vegan 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2017

We got particularly great looks at Guira Cuckoo at Pousada Piuval, a resort that is also a cattle ranch; they were active all day, even after many of the birds that gathered in the early morning dispersed, often whistling loudly from the fence posts. And, of course, Pat sees Jabiru every year in Costa Rica.

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Brazil Los Angeles Birds Tigers 189

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2022

Of course, on Chongming, the Chinese Pond Heron is very common. but on the one hand, this is not a sci-fi blog and I am not interested in science fiction (excluding of course Douglas Adams), and on the other hand, the answer from my side would be “no” anyway. Chinese Pond Herons also grow on trees.

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Birds South Korea Japan Abandon 162