10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2012

You do need to be careful of cattle wandering across the highway, as the grass always looks greener on the other side! It had quite possibly not come across a human being in this remote part of Australia and these birds are generally only seen at night-if at all. The rain has been great for the land and everywhere is turning green.

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Investigation Cattle Australia Humane 222

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Human-created habitats like road edges, pastures, and railroad right-of-ways suit them to a tee, so it hardly seems fair to call them the locusts when we are the ones who have expanded explosively and stripped the land bare. Cattle Egrets might well get them when they leap out of the way of our domestic replacement bison.

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Montana Cooking Texas Cattle 224

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2012

Unfortunately this place, like all other biodiverse places in the world, is being destroyed and threaten by us, the needy greedy humans. The contrast between biodiversity and human destruction is in plain sight everywhere you go! It is an eye opener which every birder must see before it its gone.

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Brazil Otters Reptiles Cattle 145

10,000 Birds

MAY 22, 2011

It really makes you realise how sensitive the human body is to humidity variations. There had been cattle in the area and we kept coming across bizarre butterfly circles. All we can think is that they were attracted to an area where there had been cattle urine and they were getting the natural salts.

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Cattle 2003 Birds Geese 160

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Being a bit older myself now, I have to point out that young human males usually do not look that good, at least to me. Cattle Egrets have perfected that smudgy look. The Blue-and-white Flycatcher is one of the few birds in which the young male looks both distinctive and rather nice. A juvenile male. The real thing: an adult male.

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Critter News

APRIL 13, 2009

Humane treatment runs counter to the entire industry when the point is to make money by processing these animals as fast as possible. Unlike domestic animals, there are minimal organizations or lobbyists to defend these animals, therefore leaving public opinion to be shaped only by the insincere comments of the cattle industry.

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Animal Welfare Act Animal Welfare Farmed Animals Farm Animal 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 19, 2014

So, for example, humans are apes. Fortunately for we humans, placing primates properly phylogenetically in relation to the other mammals requires an act or two of faith at the deeper ends of the family tree, but it is probably true that primates and rodents share a common stock to the exclusion of others, so maybe we are all mice.

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Camels Whales Whaling Apes 258

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. Early research suggested that “Fragmented distributions and population bottlenecks due to human activities appear to have increased genetic differentiation among populations” (Leberg 1991).

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Critter News

APRIL 24, 2012

The reemergence of mad cow disease, discovered in a California dairy cow, could have major implications for the state’s meat industry, even though officials have said that the human food supply is unaffected. The sale of cattle and calves was a $1.82-billion Beef cattle are raised in nearly every California county.

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Cows California Meat Industry Nebraska 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 28, 2011

So barren in fact it is not uncommon to find this grassland species occupying the same habitat as cattle or areas with high degree of human disturbance. Now, the Ferrgunious Hawk roams the sky in this open habitat while the Mountain Plover (probably better named Prairie Plover, but what the heck) sticks to barren open grasslands.

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Prairie Dogs Colorado North Dakota Soreing 198

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 10, 2020

Several likely winter in the southern Amazon (where the forest and all of its incredible biodiversity is being steadily decimated and replaced with massive cattle farms) but according to migration data, even more may depend on the forests of the Gran Chaco in Paraguay and northern Argentina as well as related dry forest habitats in Bolivia.

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Costa Rica South America Colombia Paraguay 279

Critter News

JANUARY 19, 2009

They castrate piglets in Europe for sanitary purposes (to avoid taint in the meat), but the methods are not terribly humane. This year, the European Commission will issue a research contract, worth up to €1 million for a study into alternatives to the castration of pigs and dehorning of cattle.

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Animal Welfare Pigs Europe Welfare 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Unlike Barred Owls they were accompanied by no great controversy , and unlike Cattle Egrets or Eurasian Collared Doves they didn’t come as an abrupt continent-hopping surprise. There’s a certain suburbanization of the natural as well as the human world.

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Montana Oregon New York Times Deer 140

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2021

One of this species’ many peculiarities is that it has a digestive system unique amongst birds: Hoatzins use bacterial fermentation in the front part of the gut to break down the vegetable material they consume, much as cattle and other ruminants do.

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Dolphins Colombia Otters Monkeys 264

Critter News

AUGUST 17, 2008

In a unanimous decision, New Jersey’s Supreme Court rejected a broad challenge by animal protection advocates to the state’s rules on the care of farmed animals) but struck down regulations that regard husbandry practices as being “humane” merely because they are routine.

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Farmed Animals Farm Animal Farming Farm Bureau 100

Animal Person

MARCH 30, 2009

The University of Puerto Rico, an "1862" LGU founded in 1900, operates a slaughter facility killing small ruminants -- typically goats and sheep, cattle being large ruminants. We humans, herbivores like ruminants, are fine with one stomach -- we don't eat the really tough stuff like grass. Let me know if you hear the show!

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Puerto Rico Responsible Policies Meat Industry Humane Treatment 100

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

In this film, we see farmers interacting with the animals they will eventually transform into food (chickens, pigs and cattle). Although the farmers can easily answer that their animals are treated more humanely whilst alive, their discomfort about being asked questions regarding the slaughter process is visually and audibly obvious.

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Farming Humane Factory Farming Factory Farm 40

10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2022

An Ashy Drongo apparently spends approximately 71% of its time scanning (what non-scientists would probably call looking around), 9% eating (less than a typical Chinese human but much more than me), calling 7%, flying 7%, and 6% preening. When Cattle Egrets go to the local discotheque, they tend to overdo their makeup a bit.

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Mountain Goats Singapore Giraffes Birds 147

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2017

In general, the best spots aren’t going to be wide open fields because those are recent, human-made habitats much more suited for cattle than forest birds. So, to make a long story short, it’s getting even harder to see raptors in Costa Rica and thus that much more pertinent to know about the best places for seeing them.

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Costa Rica West Virginia Eagles Monkeys 112

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2022

” I can see how this line of thinking leads to all kinds of sci-fi types of thought (“would I mate with an alien if I was the last human on earth”, etc.), It concludes that human activity influences the breeding activity of the lapwing. This Cattle Egret has just read a paper stating that it would be 3.6

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Birds South Korea Japan Abandonment 162

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 21, 2023

I understand there are still people out there who deny human-induced climate change. Perhaps those people have never had to personally experience increasingly erratic climate patterns. I, however, am still a California boy, in spite of not living in that state for four decades now, and I still keep track of the weather there.

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Ducks Mexico California Fish 130

Animal Person

MAY 30, 2009

Bea directed me to an interview with Dr. Elizabeth Parker , the "chair man " (my emphasis) of the Animal Agriculture Alliance at CattleNetwork, which apparently is "The Source for Cattle News." The Humane Society of the United States is the big bully on this strange playground.

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Veal Crate HSUS Gestation Crates Vegan 100

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 16, 2008

Besides depleting the ocean’s supply of fish for those animals normally feeding on them, the factory farming of cattle, pigs and chickens uses excessive water and pollutes our land. It is certainly true that the world’s marine stocks—large fish even more than small ones—are being depleted by human demand at a catastrophic rate.

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New York Times Factory Farming Factory Farm New York 40

Animal Ethics

MARCH 6, 2014

BRUCE FRIEDRICH Senior Policy Director Farm Sanctuary Washington, March 4, 2014 To the Editor: The humane laws for hens in California that provide them more space in which to live should be countrywide. Chickens deserve to live humanely. That’s the least farmers can do.

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New York Times New York Battery Cages Farm Sanctuary 40

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Niman’s suggestion that the findings do not apply to smaller farms, the United Nations and the University of Chicago reports demonstrate the inefficiency of beef “production” because a cow must be fed to convert grass or grain calories into protein before a human can consume even “humane” or grass-fed beef. Indeed, in Ms.

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New York Times New York San Antonio Meat 40

Animal Ethics

MAY 24, 2009

It seems, generally speaking, that the foods which are the costliest in suffering are also the costliest in price, whereas the wholesome and harmless diet to which Nature points us is at once the cheapest and most humane.

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Meat Vegetarian Morals Cattle 40

Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

18): As a microbiologist, I know that study after study has highlighted the human health threat from using antibiotics as feed additives for hogs, chickens and cattle, creating super-bugs—bacteria that no longer can be treated with antibiotics. To the Editor: Re “ Antibiotic Runoff ” (editorial, Sept.

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New York Times New York Livestock Chickens 40

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 28, 2010

This last implies of course an improvement in ethics, as opposed to morality, as I have defined it, unless we already understand 'Do as you would be done by' as applicable to whales, cattle, chickens, and so on, as it is to human beings. I am myself not so heroic. I eat eggs though they may come from battery hens.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

September 7, 2006, a bill banning the slaughter of horses for human consumption( H.R. According to the HPMAJ column, "Loos told cattle producers the livestock industry must show the public that there are moral and ethical justifications for taking the life of an animal to feed a person. 503 ) was approved in the U.S.

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Factory Gestation Crates Veal Crate Factory Farming 40

Animal Ethics

MARCH 8, 2009

Suppose someone enjoys drinking the blood of cattle and hogs. Or suppose that by genetic engineering we could develop a milk-producing animal that became sick when it had the milk removed by members of other species, e.g., human beings. If, on the other hand, the legs are produced in factory conditions, there is a moral objection.

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Vegetarian Morals Suffering Vegan 40

Animal Ethics

JULY 5, 2007

Europe and Canada outlawed using hormones on dairy cows because of such human and animal health concerns. June 29, 2007 The writers are cattle ranchers. In cows, the hormones have been shown to increase lameness, udder infections and bone cancer. Increasing rBST milk would just move food production in the wrong direction.

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New York Times New York 2007 Cows 40

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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Wildlife Rehabilitation India Rescue Wounded 263

10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2012

This species prefers wetlands and its numbers have been decimated due to a combination of habitat destruction caused by human population growth and illegal removal of birds and eggs from the wild for the pet and zoo trade. This plain used to be little affected by humans, being grazed by just a few cattle, goats and camels.

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Endangered Species Species Morocco South Africa 238

10,000 Birds

JUNE 24, 2021

Of course, Tiaozini also has Cattle Egret … … and the usually somewhat depressed looking Black-crowned Night Heron. I guess looking elegant during sex is difficult for most humans, too. Much better than some fiddly spoon-billed sandpipers. Also available as a set of two.

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Uganda Birds Breeding Rats 264

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2022

Oh, and maybe humans need to be a bit less destructive to your habitat, too. Apparently, the choice is for the nests to be flooded (those near streams) or to be trampled by cattle (those near the agricultural ponds). While grazing cattle and buffalo may look idyllic to us, the Oriental Pratincole has a very different view.

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Cattle Portugal Buffalo Alaska 147

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2022

They did flush eventually, but not because of humans. Smith Oaks is a migratory bird sanctuary owned and maintained by Houston Audubon, and the Rookery is a year-round bonus, full of Spoonbills, Great Egrets, Snowy Egrets, Cattle Egrets, Neotropical Cormorants, Anhingas, Tricolored Herons and Black-crowned Night-Herons.

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Houston Texas Sanctuary Sparrows 264

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