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A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words, and So Is One Great Customer Reference

Sales and Marketing Management

From farmers asking their neighbors for advice on the best cattle feed suppliers to celebrities promoting toothpaste in television commercials, another customer’s experience is a powerful endorsement. Your customers are used to you helping them, not the other way around, so requesting that they serve as a customer reference is a big ask.

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Cow Birds

10,000 Birds

It didn’t take much imagination to name Cowbirds or Cattle Egrets or Cattle Tyrants , but there’s more fantasy, even more wit, involved in the naming of other bovine birds. Bucorvus , the name of the two ground hornbills, refers to their black plumage and to their bovine mandibles: literally, they are “cow crows.&#

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Sentient: a book review

10,000 Birds

The subtitle of Jackie Higgins’ book Sentient: How Animals Illuminate the Wonder of Our Human Senses , aptly sets forth her thesis – though the “wonder” it refers to could equally well be used to describe animal (not just human) senses, as she shows in fascinating detail.

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Birding Nanhui, Shanghai, in September 2021

10,000 Birds

Cattle Egrets have perfected that smudgy look. It certainly does not refer to the status of Nanhui. At least, I managed to get a The National reference into the blog eventually. A German friend of mine saw an earlier photo of mine of a Black-naped Oriole (a slightly more attractive one, though – a proper adult male).

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The Domestic Turkey and the First Thanksgiving

10,000 Birds

Thus, the cattle we raise for meat and dairy are sometimes called Bos taurus while the extinct wild form is always called Bos primigenius. During the very late 15th century and early 16th century, there are about five or so references to one Spanish explorer or another finding a “Turkey” and maybe or maybe not bringing it back to Europe.

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Photo Essay: Green-rumped Parrotlets from Egg to Adult

10,000 Birds

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.

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The Birds of New Jersey: Status and Distribution – A Review by a Sometime Jersey Birder

10,000 Birds

That Cattle Egret I found in Somerset County, August 2009? It’s a great reference book, but, I confess, a book I seldom use. Eastern Kingbird is a common and widespread summer resident, and a common fall and fairly common spring migrant. A scarce and very local summer resident in Salem County. No wonder people were excited by it.)