10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2011

home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds , Terminology / Cow Birds Cow Birds By Rick • March 22, 2011 • 1 comment Tweet Share So what do Buffleheads and Bitterns and Hornbills have in common? They’re all named for livestock.

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AVMA News

MAY 22, 2024

The federal government announced May 10 that it will devote $200 million to enhance its response efforts to highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI, more specifically avian influenza type A H5N1), particularly among dairy cattle.

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AVMA News

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Mexico border are being encouraged to look for signs of possible New World screwworm infestation in their patients after the flesh-eating larvae was discovered in a cow in southern Mexico. veterinarians along the U.S.-Mexico

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Critter News

MARCH 5, 2009

A new soft drink made from cow's urine may be launched in India by a hard line Hindu group known for their opposition of Western food imports. The manufacturers say small quantities of the liquid produced by Hinduism's revered holy cows is being mixed with products such as aloe vera and gooseberry to fight diseases.

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4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 7, 2011

She, and the cow, are both amazing! We have all heard the saying “when life hands you lemons, make lemonade&# , well when Regina Mayer wasn’t able to have a horse, she found the next best thing! Enjoy the video.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 6, 2008

4, 2008 by the Environmental Protection Agency to charge a fee for air-polluting cows and hogs. It would require farms or ranches with more than 25 dairy cows, 50 beef cattle or 200 hogs to pay an annual fee of about $175 for each dairy cow, $87.50 Remember cows "emit" methane.) {There was} a proposal Thursday, Dec.

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Critter News

MAY 8, 2009

A cow that escaped from a slaughter house in NY City has been allowed to go to an animal sanctuary. Tags: meat animal rescue Slaughterhouse cows meatpacking.

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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. Department of Agriculturetests about 40,000 cows a year in its effort to catch the disease. The state also hosts 1.84

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Critter News

APRIL 13, 2009

Cows With Gas! Tags: global warming India methane cows. It's been a while since we've posted about Mr. Barky's favorite subject. This time, in India!

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Animal Person

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

Check out my guest post at Change.org today called " Thinking Critically About Happy Cows." Thanks to Stephanie for inviting me to post!

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Critter News

MARCH 29, 2012

California dairy farmers have an ad campaign that cows are just darn happy on their factory farms. PETA is not convinced. This article about the situation appears in the Merced Sun-Star which is from my home county of Merced!

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Cows California Campaign Factory Farm 100

Critter News

MAY 14, 2009

Molly the cow escaped from a Queens slaughterhouse has been sent to a sanctuary in Long Island. And, now she has a new boyfriend names Wexley(story complete with hot cow smooching picture). Tags: cows.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

The class-action lawsuit accuses companies of slaughtering thousands of cows just to decrease supply. Animal rights group Compassion Over Killing was the first to uncover the alleged systematic slaughter of healthy dairy cows in California.

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Animal Person

MAY 14, 2009

In other words, it's so tragic that elephants are in mortal danger that you should kill cows to help protect the imperiled elephants? All the proceeds will benefit the Golden Triangle Asian Elephant Foundation (GTAEF) conservation, which has rescued 11 baby and young-adult elephants since its inception in 2006. There are only 50 available.

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Elephants Cows Killing 2006 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

The Orange Chat was clearly feeding on insects and taking advantage of the cow pats in the area. The Orange Chat was moving through the dry mud and the grass as we sat and watched. The colour on this bird species is incredible and not easily hidden in the environment. Orange Chat and Black-fronted Dotterel.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 10, 2012

Teaser: Bill Catlette and Richard Hadden emerged on the employee engagement scene in 1998 as the “cow guys” after the publication of their book, “Contented Cows Give Better Milk: The Plain Truth About Employee Relations and Your Bottom Line.”

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10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2011

Naturalists examining old nests have identified raccoon, opossum, dog, fox squirrel, red squirrel, rabbit, horse, cow, cat, mouse, woodchuck, and even human hair in titmouse nests.

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Raccoons Woodchucks Opossums Squirrels 251

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 19, 2014

Whales are cows. The point is, of course, that whales are not cows. But if you were a biologist in training and you told your advisor you had a grant to study cows, and then took off on a boat to study whales, you would cause more confusion than necessary. Even though whales are cows. Cows do not. Nor do camels.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

I can hear the mooing of cows, interrupted by gunshots, while two scared flocks of ducks fly above the delta. The cows, let free to walk to the nearest wet meadows, are coming in my direction. Around me is a wet meadow used by the cows whose path I dared to cross. High ’tsi-tsi-tsi’ and one turquoise Common Kingfisher flies by.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Cows and water buffaloes grazing the dried up lakebed under the imposing shadow of Mt. Scattered Pied Avocets , Spotted Redshanks in good numbers, cows and water buffaloes grazing, two Black Storks , bare mudbar and… a perched eagle! I opt for the bird richest section of the lake, visible from the eastern dyke.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2014

In summary: unless you’re a cow or a human, cow’s milk is always a bad idea. – will develop serious and often fatal stomach problems if fed cow’s milk. Feeding tiny bits of blueberry will help keep the nestlings hydrated until you can them to a rehabber – which should be as fast as humanly possible.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2012

It seems that these people, who purport to claim to care so much about animals, are completely ignorant of the existence of any animal life beyond horses, cows, pigs, chickens and turkeys. What I don’t understand is why animal rights organizations almost completely ignore wildlife.

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Animal Rights Movement Animal Rights Wildlife Rights 235

10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2013

From the next curve in the road, I can see the cows grazing deep in the valley: “If I was a tiger, I would check my prey from here.” Nitin was talking to rangers and explains: “A few days ago, one of the 70 or so tigers in the reserve has indeed taken a cow.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2012

One family we came across recently had two chicks and one minute we had nice views from the vehicle… Masked Lapwing chick We then could not see it, but had not seen it run off…very odd… very clever… We discovered it had got into a cow footprint and was cleverly disguised! Masked Lapwing chick hiding in a cow footprint!

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 20, 2012

The grazing is not well-suited to the modern beef cow, particularly not during the sere of summer, and massive acrages are required for a financially viable business. Most of all, there is isolation — Ferret Camp, 20 miles from the next nearest human habitation, represents the farthest from civilization I have ever been.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

They would realize that wild owls fly silently through the night and grab unwary rodents, not unsuspecting packages of processed cow meat. In a perfect world, people would know better. And they would realize that any species whose young tried to nurse with a pointed beak would be a short-lived species.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2014

The Ash-throated Flycatchers ( Myiarchus cinerascens ) pictured below start their nest base with dry cow or horse dung. The cup is made up of dry grasses, rootlets, and weed stems, then lined with finer grasses, hair and fur. The nestling has darker down and whiter gape flanges than the nuthatch nestlings.

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Critter News

JANUARY 24, 2012

Clearly a win for the damn livestock industry. It was a question of federal vs. state authority. And it was a unanimous decision. Read the full story at CNN. A state law mandating "humane treatment" of downed livestock headed for the slaughterhouse was unanimously overturned Monday by the Supreme Court.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 27, 2013

But the wilds of Nevada revealed rattlesnakes, lizards (OK, the lizards didn’t seem that dangerous), and more than one mama cow who stared us down when our vehicles got too close to a calf. Back home, the most I’d worry about would be a bee sting, or catching Lyme disease from a tick. Not yet, knock on wood.)

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Coyotes Nevada Rattlesnake Mules 191

10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2020

The local levee warden sometimes shepherds his cows here, and the eagle would stand right above him, giving him no second glance. At first I stopped to admire it, then came a bit closer, but still giving it space so it would feel safe. I am a stranger in his realm.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 21, 2013

On our last morning, we drove out to the Carson Lake Wetlands , following long and dusty trails through cow pastures and marshy terrain. The specials for our dinner at The Slanted Porch in Fallon included dishes prepared from cows and lambs raised by local 4-H Club kids.). The best, in my opinion, was saved for last.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

When you ask yourself, as the rain pelts you face and runs into your eyes and you shuffle your feet to get a better vantage point on this bramble only to track into a particularly large, particularly runny pile of muddy cow dung, why is it that I put myself through this for what amounts to a tick on a list.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

But the babies bark like dogs and moo like cows.”. “The young ones are incredibly curious and playful,” says Monte Merrick, the co-Director of Bird Ally X in Arcata, California, which is almost to the border of Oregon. The adults don’t say much – minor grunts, mostly bill clacking. He’s talking about Brown Pelicans. “We

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 27, 2014

These birds even lay their eggs on piles of cow or horse dung, most likely to elevate them from the cold ground and possibly provide some heating through the process of rotting plant material. That can be traced back in time to 1875, when Alfred Brehm wrote that he had found Sociable Lapwings only alongside the domestic cattle.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 29, 2012

Moreover, like any good creature of wonder and magic, it ran out into the path in front of me as I puffed down a cow path, stopped dead to give me a look, and then darted out of my life forever when I reached for my camera. I don’t know how the lizard felt, but the encounter warmed my blood.

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Reptiles Spain Monkeys Cows 188

Critter News

MARCH 30, 2009

Crashing through a gate in the dead of night, thieves using trucks and trailers recently robbed a farmer here of 53 Brahman crossbreed cows valued at some $50,000. Tags: cows.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 5, 2020

The cows and their entourage of Cattle Egrets sloshed through the pastures, each time they moved we lurched forward hoping to see a disturbed Grey-breasted Crake hop into view – but alas, no such luck even though we were hearing the little skulkers consistently. Farmers keep their livestock in this wetland also.

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