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FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Torrent Ducks are the thrill-seekers of the avian world. But Torrent Ducks are fearless and to witness some of their daredevil feats ranks pretty high in the book “1000 Avian Spectacles to See Before You Die” A book that I have not yet written. We initially only found a male Torrent Duck and later on, only a female.

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MAY 7, 2019

On a sandbar in the center of the Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge, hundreds of ducks swirled around each other or lay down to take cover against the punishing wind. The waterfowl flock was made up of two very unique looking species: the Fulvous and Black-belled Whistling Ducks. I couldn’t believe it. What made my eyes widen?

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MAY 27, 2018

Last week I mentioned the steady increase of Plumed Whistling-Ducks to the Broome Poo Ponds and that they now number in the thousands. As the land starts to dry out the Plumed Whistling-Ducks head for remaining fresh water around Broome and the ephemeral lakes are good locations for them to move to, but the Poo Ponds are also ideal.

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APRIL 9, 2014

There is a hidden cove in Anderson River Park in Northern California where birders know they can almost always find Wood Ducks (Axi sponsa). Since I hadn’t been to Anderson River Park for awhile, I stopped by last week and found some Wood Ducks at the usual spot. Birds Cavity nesting birds ducks Wood Duck'

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Having grown up in Suffolk County on Long Island, New York, I made the reasonable assumption that the Black Duck Porter made by Greenport Harbor Brewing Company was named for the American Black Duck , a locally common dabbler found throughout the East End’s many bays and saltmarshes. Or at least enough time for a quick tipple.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2011

home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds / Duck Butts Duck Butts By Corey • February 28, 2011 • 7 comments Tweet Share We here at 10,000 Birds believe that every bird is beautiful and, moreover, that every part of every bird is beautiful.

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APRIL 23, 2015

Three White-faced Whistling Ducks showed up in Villa Marshes in Lima-Peru. However, the ducks’ behavior killed the festive mood for some and left others with a glimmer of hope. Three White-faced Whistling Ducks are currently on the southwest pool of Villa Marshes! Ducks at Villa Marshes. Ducks at Villa Marshes.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2014

I knew that I could count the introduced Muscovy Ducks in front of me but did I want to? You see, Muscovy Ducks are countable in the American Birding Association area due to wild birds from Central America making their way up into Texas. feral Muscovy Duck at Blue Heron Wetlands, Titusville, Florida. And why is it still there?

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MARCH 4, 2013

Just in case you’ve ever wondered why getting goosed in Duck, Duck, Goose is so stressful, the good folks at Buzzfeed have deftly explained the game in pictures. This link deserves three minutes of your day! Bonus Paradise Shelducklings above by Duncan Wright.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2012

In North America there is really only one duck that could even come close to competing with the Wood Duck for the title of most fair, and the Harlequin Duck is just too much of a trollop to really compete. And, as it turns out, confiding doesn’t quite express how willing to approach people these ducks are.

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MARCH 1, 2011

home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds / Manky Muscovy Ducks Manky Muscovy Ducks By Mike • March 2, 2011 • 6 comments Tweet Share The Muscovy Duck ( Cairina moschata ) attracts more attention than most ducks, at least in North America.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2011

One of my favorite parts of fall is the long, drawn out duck migration, which seems to never end, with many birds staying put for winter or only moving out when their ponds and lakes are frozen. In particular, I love ponds loaded with dabbling ducks, the teals and pintails, wigeons and black ducks, mallards and gadwalls.

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OCTOBER 27, 2017

About four years ago I first wrote about the Pink-headed Duck , a charming species related to the pochards (although how, exactly, is up for grabs, like so much duck taxonomy.) Image: Pink-headed duck art decoy by Philip Nelson, courtesy of Global Wildlife Conservation. Maybe they’re extinct. Maybe they’re not.

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MARCH 31, 2023

Yesterday I saw two small ducklings in a group of ducks and geese, but their mom didn’t seem to be around them or attentive. Can someone explain a bit more about duck behavior with their babies? Are ducklings generally safe with other ducks that aren’t their parents?

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MARCH 18, 2016

I admit that sometimes I am pretty negative about ducks. But this, this above all redeems ducks: they sit still long enough that you can show them to your non-birding friends. Ducks, on the other hand, have a charming tendency to just sit. And in spring, there are such lovely ducks to show them.

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JUNE 12, 2019

Now, I do hope you have stayed with me to this point, because there is a moral to this story: How much do you like your ducks, grebes, sandpipers, and plovers? The lake’s shallower western half, on which dabbling ducks and shorebirds depend the most, is seriously affected by fluctuating water levels.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2012

One of the most common ducks that you see in Broome are the Plumed Whistling-Ducks and they are exactly that! There are also Wandering Whistling-Ducks around Broome, but they are less common. They don’t have the pink legs and the plumes that they have are not upswept like those of the Plumed Whistling-Duck.

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MARCH 8, 2017

The region has justifiably been referred to as the “Duck Factory of North America.” WPAs provide critical breeding, resting, and nesting habitat for millions of ducks, geese, and swans, as well as shorebirds and grassland birds. For birders, the easiest and most direct way to support WPAs (and NWRs) is to buy a Duck Stamp.

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OCTOBER 28, 2013

Nothing much, but it is entertaining to see a bunch of ducks wandering around in a drugstore in Saratoga Springs, New York. What happens when a bunch of Mallards and Manky Mallards invade a CVS? Hat-tip to Gothamist. News Mallards Saratoga County'

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MAY 3, 2013

In light of this, and after nearly three hours with nary a sign of either the teal or the Wood Ducks it was reputed to keep company with, we chucked it. “Surely,” we rationalized, “the ducks will hunker down in this weather, so any further waiting will be fruitless.”

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AUGUST 14, 2012

I discovered that there are actually a fair number of ducks and other waterfowl that are wrongly called geese. True geese belong to the tribe or sub-family Anserini within the larger family Anatidae that encompasses ducks, geese and swans. Well, the Pygmy Geese complex are actually all ducks belonging to the genus Nettapus.

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MARCH 27, 2014

Resident mallards are considered an “exotic duck” in Florida and have the potential to drive the native mottled duck (Anas fulvigula) to extinction through hybridization. These wild birds migrate out of Florida to northern breeding areas in the spring and are not present in Florida during the mottled duck breeding season.

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MARCH 14, 2011

Then, at 6 PM, as the sun disappeared completely over the horizon, the ducks on the pond started massing on the west end of the pond, with many small flocks from all over the pond flying in to the west end until it was basically covered with ducks. Dominic Gendron Mar 14th, 2011 at 8:43 pm Wow thats a lot of ducks!

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FEBRUARY 18, 2017

I need lots of cloud forest birds for the year and love hanging out in that oxygen-rich habitat but I also need ducks and in Costa Rica, most of those old web-footed ones are local, rare, and only possible a few months out of the year. No ducks, nor Cave Swallows but the other additions were very welcome. What on Earth do they eat?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2013

In the UK, we have a long-running soap series called ‘Coronation Street’ A set of three flying ducks graced the muriel (sic) on the wall of Hilda Ogden’s back room at No.13, Greatly loved by Hilda, she credits the ducks and her scenic wall, for keeping her ‘hand from the gas tap’ on her bad days.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2013

Some domestic duck breeds, however, present new forms of beauty unseen in their wild counterparts. And, like most domestic ducks, she presents a lot more of it that the wild ducks she towers over! And, like most domestic ducks, she presents a lot more of it that the wild ducks she towers over!

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JUNE 21, 2017

Both White Faced, and White Ibis join Black-necked Stilts, Greater Yellowlegs , and Spotted Sandpipers to wade in the shallow flooded fields along side our resident Black-bellied Whistling Ducks. I have always considered the Black-bellied Whistling Duck one of the year round highlights for our little piece of odiferous birding heaven.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 21, 2014

Due to some erroneous numbers thrown about by Duck Stamp advocates, I feel that some explanations are in order. To be clear, Duck Stamp proceeds make up only a portion of the 3% of refuge land purchased by the MBCF. Now, as the popularity of hunting has declined, so too have the sales of Duck Stamps. million, a 37% reduction 3.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 12, 2014

Like … the Tufted Duck ! Yes, the Tufted Duck is the ideal suject for this blog: it is reasonably common here in Germany and not hard to photograph, yet to you it is probably the subject of countless day dreams scanning through endless flocks of Lesser Scaup. Then desaster struck: a vagrant, stage hog Ring-necked Duck!

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 9, 2011

The seventh occurrence of Harlequin Ducks in Utah is now over. Because a hunter or hunters shot all three. They were apparently shot from the Antelope Island Causeway, where birders had been reporting them from, and, even worse, it seems that the hunters might have learned of their presence from birding listservs.

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MAY 2, 2012

“This is not just regular duck. ” That is the defense of Lloyd “Chip” Badeaux , a city councilman in Thibodaux, Louisiana, for killing 48 whistling-ducks at a friend’s house. State law allows 6 dead ducks per day. This is an infestation, they come by the thousands.”

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AUGUST 11, 2016

As a birder, this 72 minute documentary film about the Duck Stamp Contest didn’t accomplish what I was hoping it might – get people excited about the Duck Stamp, or at least wildlife conservation. That being said, in preparation of opening day judging of the Duck Stamp Contest, the judges were informed of the contest rules.

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MARCH 2, 2012

During the last week, I received some terrific photos from two readers who had encountered a very distinctive duck at Brazos Bend State Park in Texas. Odd duck © Chris Hirsch Odd duck © Tom Ellis Did you identify this duck correctly? They weren’t quite sure about its identity, but I bet you have some ideas.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2023

On BirdTrack, the British equivalent of e-Bird, the list of birds provided does allow for Tufted Duck x Ferruginous Duck to be recorded, but not Tufted Duck x Pochard. However, that’s exactly what I guessed the duck swimming in front of me had to be. My hunch was Tufted Duck x Pochard.

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APRIL 1, 2022

One of the old jokes I always hear at Christmas Bird Count dinners pops up we get to the ducks, which is now pretty early in the compilation thanks to the current taxonomic order. “Summer or Wood Duck” from The Birds of America by John James Audubon (1785-1851).

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APRIL 13, 2012

OK so not a duck, but geese are also chandelier makers of the highest order. Still not a duck, but how could I resist including this image of a Pied-billed Grebe going for a belly slide? When a foot digs in the result is often comical. I love the water chandeliers they make when they plop into the water from a nearby ledge!

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 21, 2016

In 2015 a Federal Duck Stamp Task Force was convened under the auspices of the Association of Fish & Wildlife Agencies (AFWA) consisting of seventeen individuals. b) Recommendation : Work with all groups to identify synergistic opportunities for promoting broad conservation benefits of the Duck Stamp. 1) Action : U.S.

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