On a dark November afternoon at Southampton’s City Farm, the animals are going about their business. They are all rescues. Penny the pig, a clutch of former battery farm chickens, three pygmy goats and Salvatore the cane snake, so orange and shiny he looks as though he is glowing from within as he twines around […]
Tag: Muscovy Duck
They Came in the Night – USDA Wildlife Services “Contract Killers” – Dark Operations Part 2 – The Killing
“The geese are killed by lethal gas—often in small chambers on the back of trucks brought directly to the round-up site. Geese are loaded into the chamber one at a time until several are inside. Witnesses can hear the geese banging and thumping trying to escape.” The problem with Canada goose round-ups | The Humane […]
Pantanal birds
Finally found time to edit part of the many images I took during my trip to Brazil. In this batch I will post the better photos I took in the Pantanal. I did try to document as many species as possible, but many of these photos aren’t worthy of blogging. All photos are on my […]
Pato real o Pato criollo, Muscovy Duck, Cairina moschata
Hoy les presento al Pato real, o también llamado Pato criollo; las fotos que ilustran esta entrada fueron obtenidas el día Sábado 19 de Octubre en una isla que se encuentra en el Arroyo Garupá en cercanías de la localidad de Candelaria; en los días previos me encontré con Silvio Wandelow, un amigo que también […]