Critter News

OCTOBER 31, 2010

This looks like its for farming of livestock, not medical research, but that's bad too. 28 his intentions to build such a facility in the state during the Livestock Biotech Summit at the Sioux Falls Convention Center. Tags: livestock agriculture. Research on animals is research on animals. From the High Plains Journal.

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Critter News

JULY 22, 2011

THE DUTCH parliament has voted overwhelmingly to ban the ritual slaughter of livestock. It could have a snowball effect for other countries in Europe, although probably it certainly won't be seen as politically correct. Excerpted from the Irish Times.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2013

Unfortunately, contemporary people from the high Andes are beginning to see condors as the enemy; a predator that will kill and eat livestock. It is also true that condors will spot cows and other livestock giving birth and guard the animal to be there and take advantage of the placenta and other leftovers.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 6, 2021

For the fifth year in a row, I was assigned the prolific and well-known Aripo Livestock Station at the foothills of Trinidad’s Northern Range. For birders who have visited T&T in the past, the livestock station has always been a staple site for several key species that would be fairly difficult elsewhere.

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JUNE 3, 2011

Populations are trending upward and there is new hope for the carrion eaters still dealing with the ravages of diclofenac, a drug used to treat livestock that vultures then consume, causing their death. Cambodia’s “Vulture Restaurants&# are helping to increase the numbers of three imperiled species of vulture.

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APRIL 25, 2024

But once I get back home to Mexico, I will be climbing hills on livestock trails once again. In between now and then, I will spend a week and a half in California, in the land where birding may mean walking on paved paths, or even on a wooden boardwalk built through the middle of a salt marsh.

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DECEMBER 23, 2020

Visitors to T&T may be familiar with the area – the famed Aripo Livestock Station. Access is restricted, and the livestock referred to are highly temperamental water buffalo. Our jaunt for the CBC of 2015 turned out to be the first of many, as I have been assigned that area each count since then.

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AUGUST 2, 2024

We saw several, but unfortunately, the ones that let me take photos were feeding in a livestock paddock. The Rusty Sparrow is a large sparrow that can only be found from western Mexico to northern Central America. Several Black-chinned Sparrows sang from different perches, making this site a special one, indeed.

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JUNE 6, 2012

My friend Ingrid over at the Free Quark offers an interesting and valid argument in her post on the European Starling that “the biggest threat to any native species is our own voracious appetite for development, which reduces viable habitat for all species to a point where competition becomes exacerbated.”

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Critter News

DECEMBER 9, 2010

The purpose is to make them happier as livestock. A team based at the CSIRO aims to use the study to reduce stress and pain in livestock. A team based at the CSIRO aims to use the study to reduce stress and pain in livestock. The research is being funded by Meat and Livestock Australia. Go here for the full article.

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JANUARY 14, 2022

Shrikes were practicing their own form of butchery – that is, their particular practice of impaling their kills from thorns and barbed wire for later eating – long before we began domesticating and slaughtering livestock on our own.

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AUGUST 5, 2020

Farmers keep their livestock in this wetland also. Arriving before sunrise, we could already see the thick clouds on the horizon. Scores of Black-bellied Whistling Ducks circled overhead, these vocal ducks are often hunted illegally here so it was refreshing to see so many.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2014

Well, we Bronx boys are naturally suspcious of livestock, for reasons I still don’t understand. This bubble of contentment must have dulled my typically sharp urban wariness, because I thought nothing of the teenager traveling up the path with an untethered cow. Who worries about a cow, right?

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Critter News

MAY 18, 2009

It's their way of acknowledging the impact of livestock on the environment. Not only is there reason to believe that livestock contribute to greenhouse gases, but meat is resource-intensive to produce. Tags: climate global warming europe methane livestock vegetarian.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Syngenta advises users to “NOT place baits in locations which are accessible to pets, domestic animals, livestock or birds” or to “contaminate dams, waterways and drains with the bait or its used container.”

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FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Moreover, the pair I saw was feeding from a livestock trough alongside a group of cattle. According to the ABA, they are not countable. And when you see them – as I have recently – they have massive transmitters and color bands on their legs. Hardly the elegant, natural picture deserving of some seriously stunning birds!

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The neighbors had advised me, from experience, that planting trees without excluding the local free-ranging livestock would be an exercise in futility: first challenge overcome.) I started afforesting our church lot in 2016, just after we were able to fence it.

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Critter News

JANUARY 24, 2012

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

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10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2012

The lush pastures of the Aripo Livestock Station sustained herds of happy Buffalypso , a special breed of T&T beef cattle named for their Water Buffalo heritage and Calypso-happy country. Where we entered the area, the savannah seemed more like Aripo Ranch. In fact, it was.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

So, researchers looked at the habitat use of Blood Pheasants as related to the presence of livestock. One of the threats to the Blood Pheasant comes from overgrazing by cattle.

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Critter News

APRIL 13, 2009

By burping, belching and excreting copious amounts of methane — a greenhouse gas that traps 20 times more heat than carbon dioxide — India's livestock of roughly 485 million (including sheep and goats) contribute more to global warming than the vehicles they obstruct.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 23, 2014

They feed from grain storage and spillage areas, livestock yards, and bird feeders. In North America and the Caribbean, they are found mostly in suburban, urban, and agricultural areas where grain, roost, and nest sites are available.

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Critter News

APRIL 18, 2009

Wolves have been killing livestock in Oregon, and now they want the authority to kill them.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

” Given the vagaries of spring migration in our climate-changing world, perhaps this is the model that birders ought to adopt; but given how long it takes us as a community to decide whether that Ash-throated Flycatcher was a hybrid or what, we’d find out when to start our list for any given year about half a decade later.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 24, 2011

The humanitarian needs remain overwhelming but given the important role that companion animals play in the Japanese family and the important role that livestock plays in the Japanese economy, it’s important that we address the issues immediately,” said IFAW’s Disaster Manager Dr. Dick Green.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 25, 2012

Unusual abundances of food items, e.g. arboreal insects, garbage, livestock feed, etc. Generally invertebrates when available, fruits and berries, grains and certain seeds during other times of the year. are also exploited.” ” So, do we have a more robust and adaptable population of starlings in North America?

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 27, 2015

Not your typical veterinarian, he treats both wild and domestic animals, and when islanders need help with their pets and livestock, he’s the one they call. Scott Sims is one of Hawaii’s best-kept local secrets. people helping animals tv'

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 21, 2022

I’ve been leading a small but faithful group on Trinidad for several years to count birds within a livestock farm that is generally restricted to the public (you can read about some of those shenanigans here ); this was the first time I was to embark on a CBC on the smaller island of Tobago.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

It's that if you don't have the funds, and you don't have the feed, and don't have the place to keep them, and they are old, and they are no longer going to work for what you need them for, it's a place for them to go," said Billings Livestock and Horse Sale's Jenn Parker. A place for them to go? Maybe then can call it Horse Haven.

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Critter News

JANUARY 18, 2011

He also introduced LB 306, otherwise known as the Livestock Animal Welfare Act. Tyson Larson introduced LB 305 on Wednesday, which would create a state meat inspection program, which would in turn allow horse meat to be transported across state lines.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Scores of abandoned dogs, cats and livestock from Utah animal shelters become subjects of laboratory research at the University of Utah each year. Thanks to PETA's undercover investigation of University of Utah labs for bringing this issue to media attention. From the AP.

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4 The Love Of Animals

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Warrior Initiation” – By killing lions, Maasai warriors protect their livestock and officially become men.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 3, 2014

Thousands of animals have died from the immediate impact of the floods, but many more livestock and companion animals require urgent assistance. Catastrophic floods following three days of extremely heavy rain this month have left large portions of Bosnia and Serbia submerged and millions of people and animals in desperate need of help.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

Over the past week, tigers have frequently lifted livestock from the villages outside Kaziranga, with a tiger killing a domestic pig in the park's Sildubi area on Saturday itself. "We found the ninth rib of the tiger broken and partially calcified. This has given credence to the perception that the animal had died in a revenge attack.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 14, 2008

Some huge livestock farms produce more raw waste than cities as large as Philadelphia or Houston. The US General Accountability Office (GAO) is not happy with the EPA. They've issued a report that throws a negative light on the EPA trying to ELIMINATE EVEN MORE REGULATION of factory farms. Deregulation is EVERYWHERE.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2011

They’re all named for livestock. 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?

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AUGUST 31, 2011

The island was first a Maori fortress to be retreated to from the mainland, then a camp for internees during the war and a quarantine station for people and livestock. Somes, less interestingly, was a rich backer of the New Zealand Company called Joseph Somes (who never went near the place).

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