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This is the time of year that we rightfully contemplate the noble Turkey. Thus, the cattle we raise for meat and dairy are sometimes called Bos taurus while the extinct wild form is always called Bos primigenius. Photograph of a Wild Turkey at Flatrock Brook Nature Center, in Englewood, New Jersey, by Corey. And it isn’t.
It's even got Chuck Jolley from the Cattle Network riled up. Tags: PETA farm animal welfare thanksgiving turkey massacre. Overlooked this one. Another nasty farm animal abuse story. Whatever you think about PETA, I admire them for exposing this crap. Find another line of work. Find another line of work. It will be too late.
Cattle Egrets are very common outside of the most urbanized areas. Meanwhile, if you get outside of the city center and don’t see at least one Turkey Vulture or Black Vulture , well, you’re just not trying. ” (Yes, that was a shameless plug!). This Red-tailed Hawk happens to be disguised as a Red-tailed Hawk.
Maybe it’s important to note that Turkey Vultures , in particular, were well-loved by , and even inspirational to , the people that lived here before Europeans arrived. Unlike the Turkey Vulture, who smells out decaying flesh, every one of these vultures forages by sight. – ==– Turkey Vulture, Cathartes aura.
From there to the nearby Evros River Delta, at the very border with Turkey, with more easterly species such as the Spur-winged Plover. The first thing to appear was its yellow bill – a locally rare Cattle Egret ! Then about a 100 km to the Ismarida Lake and Porto Lagos lagoons for breeding and migrating waders.
Whales emerge from within the larger group of mammals that includes cattle, deer, pigs, camels, with camels being the most deeply rooted. (So Until turkey size or so. The point is, of course, that whales are not cows. So pigs are camels, as you probably already suspected.) And smaller. And smaller.
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. But shifting baseline syndrome doesn’t just apply to things that have become diminished.
Rueppell’s, White-backed and Hooded Vultures After Asia’s dramatic vulture crash (some of the species’ populations dropped by over 99% in just a few years due to Diclofenac, a veterinary drug mostly used for treating cattle that is fatal to vultures), Africa’s vultures are now facing the abyss.
The noble Blue Tit once ranged from Iran through Turkey and Europe to the Canary Islands (the Spanish Islands off North Africa – the other bird was named for the islands incidentally) and North Africa. Similarly when the Hoopoe and Cattle Egret were split, these are widespread birds with huge ranges even after the split.
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. Nothing like watching kettle after kettle of Turkey Vultures , and Broad-winged and Swainson’s Hawks pass overhead for hours.
We are entering the mixed colony of 11 species ( Grey , Squacco , Purple and Black-crowned Night Herons ; Great , Little and, recently, Cattle Egrets ; Eurasian Spoonbill (below) and Glossy Ibis ; Pygmy and Great Cormorant ). I do have experience with this species from Bodrum, Turkey; it is daring, bold and cocky, and is impossible to forget.
Cattle Egret – Bubulcus ibis; San Joaquin de Heredia, 1-Jan. Turkey Vulture – Cathartes aura; San Joaquin de Heredia, 1-Jan. Great Blue Heron – Ardea herodias; San Joaquin de Heredia, 1-Jan. Little Blue Heron – Egretta caerulea; Tirimbina, 9-Jan. Snowy Egret – Egretta thula; Tirimbina, 9-Jan.
Niman for pasturing the animals to provide all the beef, turkey, chicken and pork eaten in this country? Yet the turkey she raises is a much smaller factor in advancing global warming than the cattle on her ranch because they produce meat much more efficiently. Would no forests need to be cut down to create the pastures?
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. The number of chickens, turkeys, pigs, cattle and other animals raised and slaughtered in the United States has been growing steadily for decades.
This physical evidence of properly handled cattle would go a long way toward ensuring healthier meat while lifting the shared burden that comes with consigning millions of animals yearly to a terrifyingly cruel death. Peters Paso Robles, Calif., I think most would, enthusiastically. Jonathan Spitz Westfield, N.J.,
Cattle Egret – Bubulcus ibis; Santa Barbara de Heredia, 4-Jan. Turkey Vulture – Cathartes aura; Santa Barbara de Heredia, 3-Jan. Tricolored Heron – Egretta tricolor; San Miguel reservoir, 8-Jan. Osprey – Pandion haliaetus; San Miguel reservoir, 8-Jan.
Yet, 79 checklists were submitted by 8 beats, accounting for 366 species in 5 countries. Yet, 79 checklists were submitted by 8 beats, accounting for 366 species in 5 countries.
The year list remains sluggish at 1489 , but the life list received a boost from the eBird taxonomy reshuffle and now includes 4076 species. The year list remains sluggish at 1489 , but the life list received a boost from the eBird taxonomy reshuffle and now includes 4076 species.
Nesting is now confined to Morocco, irregularly in Boghari in Algeria and in Birecik, Turkey.” (The Sadly, they no longer breed in Algeria, while in Turkey no free-flying birds remain. (In On a visit in October 2022, I found ibises feeding with cattle in scruffy roadside paddocks adjacent to the marismas ( photographs below ).
The year list remains low, at 1425 but the life list was bolstered this month by Donna’s Antillean Nighthawk and has reached 4069. The year list remains low, at 1425 but the life list was bolstered this month by Donna’s Antillean Nighthawk and has reached 4069.
It was a gift to be reacquainted with trusty birds of winter like American Tree Sparrow , Dark-eyed Junco , Black-capped Chickadee , along with less reliable ones like Wild Turkey , a Red-necked Grebe bobbing up and down on the harsh waters of Lake Ontario, and a trio of Harlequin Ducks riding the rapids above the falls.
By 6am we had our first Australian Brush-Turkey as shown in the above photograph and the list was soon started. Laughing Kookaburras with Australian Brush-Turkey in the background at a campsite. As we travelled around the hinterland we discovered that the Cattle Egret in that area of Queensland were with the cattle!
251 Cattle Egret – Bubulcus ibis. 369 Wild Turkey – Meleagris gallopavo. 531 Turkey Vulture – Cathartes aura. 251 Cattle Egret – Bubulcus ibis. To ring the changes the list has been through the “newest first” filter. 1 Rose-throated Becard – Pachyramphus aglaiae.
Native species have also managed to make a living in the newly created urban jungle habitat, including Northern Mockingbird , Cattle Egret , Mourning Dove , and Fish Crow. In the winter, Turkey Vulture , Palm Warbler , and Ring-billed Gulls appear in large numbers. I invite readers to share with us their common parking lot birds.
Dragan has caught up from his adventures in Colombia and the life list has reached 4103. Dragan has caught up from his adventures in Colombia and the life list has reached 4103.
102 Cattle Egret – Bubulcus ibis. 111 Turkey Vulture – Cathartes aura. 102 Cattle Egret – Bubulcus ibis. 111 Turkey Vulture – Cathartes aura. The year list stands at 1514 with the life list standing still at 4009. 1 Black-bellied Whistling-Duck – Dendrocygna autumnalis.
As such, a parallel post will appear here simultaneously with the year list. As such, a parallel post will appear here simultaneously with the year list.
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