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USDA creates milk testing strategy to combat H5N1 in dairy cattle

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Department of Agriculture announced a new federal order, as well as accompanying guidance, on December 6 as part of its new National Milk Testing Strategy. This builds on efforts by federal and state entities since the outbreak of H5N1 in dairy cattle in March.

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Whooping Crane at Joe Overstreet Road

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Continuing to release more birds into an environment that could not sustain them was a losing strategy. 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.

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Food

10,000 Birds

Cattle Egret. A clever strategy to specialize on something that everybody thinks is disgusting. Little Grebe: With 4 chicks waiting for the fish, maybe better to eat it yourself … Some birds seem to prefer crustaceans. Black-capped Kingfisher. Little Egret: There is a shrimp farm by the seaside. Very easy work. Brown Shrike.

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Herons and Egrets of Nanhui, Shanghai

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It is interesting to see the different evolutionary strategies of closely related bird species – the various snow-white egrets with their “I don`t give a damn who can see me” attitude contrasting with the ridiculously well-camouflaged yellow bitterns. If you see 50 cattle egrets following a plough on a rice paddy, less so.

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The Fate of the Florida Anis

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In addition to having a communal nesting strategy, anis also spend a significant amount of time allopreening, huddling together, and sunning themselves together on exposed branches. Diet is composed mostly of large insects. Petersburg area and Cape Canaveral. During this time, southern Florida was in a state of ecological chaos.

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Week To Week Birding

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It’s a good strategy for Bobolinks to have. Cattle wandered this pasture along with me (one cow even attempted to taste my carbon fiber tripod). I can watch where I step on my way to my survey spot, the cattle aren’t so cautious, Bobolinks need to be ready to move when the unaware bovine wanders near near the nest.

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Hoping for Grasspipers in Costa Rica

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It’s more like hoping for them because the abundance of open land on cattle farms and little birding coverage brews up a fine needle in a haystack situation. Another strategy is keeping an eye on recent eBird reports and that’s how we saw our first and probably best grasspiper of the year.