10,000 Birds

MARCH 24, 2024

There are beautiful beaches, a plethora of amazing food and drinks, a multitude of family fun locations, a world-renowned zoo, and one of the biggest birding festivals in the US. My family visited San Diego every year as part of a Disneyland-SoCal Road trip to escape the rainy Christmases at home near Portland, Oregon.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 26, 2022

This Black-bellied Whistling Duck was on its way to visit its mate and young brood further afield in the same pond but made a detour. Did the Black-bellied Whistling Duck represent his family, “showing face” as we say here in the Caribbean? Apologies for excluding them from this carousel. Spotted Sandpiper.

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Elephants Ducks Humane Family 266

10,000 Birds

MARCH 23, 2022

As it turned out, the remaining water was too shallow for ducks, except a few Northern Shovelers. Admittedly, early May is too late to find most duck species in Michoacán, even in a good year.) In fact, I can see many more of these ducks, much closer to home. It was only a bit better for shorebirds and egrets.

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Ducks Mexico Fish Species 206

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2024

The rooms are floating in a pond and the pond provides a home for a Eurasian Beaver family. While driving along the Trekvaart canal I spotted hundreds of Tufted Duck with a nice sprinkling of Smew , Common Pochard and Common Goldeneye. Skeins of Greylag Geese completed the picture. So it was this day.

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Beavers Netherlands Eagles Geese 140

10,000 Birds

JUNE 29, 2022

However, I rarely get to travel with family or friends who share my obsession. But this time, it was soon clear that there were some ducks bobbing among these waves. I had never actually seen marine ducks on the ocean before. Better yet, these ducks turned out to be Surf Scoters.

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San Francisco California Battery Ducks 147

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2023

We walked over there, stopping to see several birds along the way, and when we finally topped the bank surrounding the pond, there was indeed a duck floating on the water. This duck had a long, ever-so-thin bill, and a surprising brown crest. The addition of a family of Least Grebes was a nice touch.

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Mexico Morocco Cuba Jordan 177

10,000 Birds

JUNE 30, 2013

Duck hunting is big business in the United States. Just ask whoever greenlit the A&E reality show Duck Dynasty , about a family that sells duck calls.) But what about those of us who’d rather just look at ducks than shoot them? Where’s our duck stamp? Birds Conservation duck stamp'

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Wildlife Jordan Ducks United States 178

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2021

So I contacted him for the exact location, which turned out to be a beautiful 14-acre property that belongs to his family, and he kindly invited me over. But the Mexican Ducks say otherwise. Which it was! We didn’t manage to make it happen the first Monday, but on the 28th of June, we birded his property together.

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Barn Owls Owls Mexico Leopards 254

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

For a few years now, every time they visit their family here, he or they go with me to bird my favorite sites. Just two weeks earlier, the only ducks I had seen were a handful of resident Mexican Ducks and Fulvous Whistling-Ducks. His wife, Fany, is also a biologist, and is from Morelia.

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Ducks 2020 Eggs California 249

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

But Swarovski Optik is a family-owned business, so the then CEO, Mr. Swarovski, categorically rejected the advice and decided: factory stays in Austria, and the prices will only go up! At the end of the 20th century (and before the ELs were born), the factory hired consultants to help it restructure and maximise profits.

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Austria Factory Asia Battery 295

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2022

It also summarizes the vagrancy status of every bird family in the whole wide world, which makes it fun to read as well as superbly educational. The Family Accounts are the fun part of the book. The Family Accounts are also a deeply informational, documented source of information for researchers.

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Birds Compassion Eagles Science 256

Reddit Animals

JUNE 18, 2023

A few weeks ago a wild duck decided to build her nest on the flat roof below my window, now two of the babies hatched so far with the rest on the way. flat roof momma duck just flew, but can the chicks jump from this height and be unharmed? Do i just let the duck figure it out herself? I hope this is the right sub to ask this.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2011

This fear of the dark and deep is the reason why I am happy and grateful every day I wasn’t born a duck. Seriously, ducks must be the toughest creatures ever, the Chuck Norrises of the bird world, because they endure this thing all the time. He doesn’t go there for the ducks, but for the fish.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2022

You will not find the Australian Wood Duck in the HBW, as they prefer the name Maned Duck for it. The Australasian Figbird is a member of the Oriole family despite not being yellow. Indeed, it seems Australian members of the oriole family are not fond of yellow, as demonstrated by this Olive-backed Oriole. Female below.

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Australia Birds Koalas Parrots 181

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Several days of sub-freezing temperatures have frozen over the lakes in my hometown of Greensboro, North Carolina, making for phenomenal duck watching for those willing to brave the weather. The ducks were still concentrated in the, ever increasing, pockets of open water as if it were much colder. If what you asked for were ducks.

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North Carolina Ducks Farming Fish 180

10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2018

On May 2nd we bush walked to an ephemeral lake approximately 55 kilometres/34 miles from Broome with my Mum, who also enjoys birds and walking, to find more ducks present than on our previous visit a couple of weeks ago. Looking across to the far side of the lake we noticed a very large duck and it was swimming close to the edge.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 27, 2012

One of the sweetest subsections of the duck family has to be the sawbills, formally known as mergansers. Mergansers are a family of diving waterfowl in Merginae , the seaduck subfamily of Anatidae. Ironically, only one of these seaducks is truly a seafarer, the others favoring rivers and lakes.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Black-bellied Whistling-Ducks , Muscovy Ducks and Blue-winged Teals were around us, together with Green , Great and Little Blue Herons , Cattle and Great White Egrets , Black-crowned and Yellow-crowned Night-Herons , plus one locally rare Pinnated Bittern in the floating vegetation, as well as several dozen Neotropical Cormorants.

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Costa Rica Nicaragua 2019 Farming 227

Reddit Animals

JUNE 16, 2023

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Ducks Family Animal 52

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 2, 2020

That is because we receive so many extra species from up north, which can double the number of potential species in many of our most important avian families: Ducks, Hummingbirds, Wood Warblers, New World Sparrows, Tyrant Flycatchers, and many others. I went back to Las Mesas, just east of Morelia, a week ago.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 8, 2018

The reason I ask is because my family and I visited the Bronx Zoo this weekend. Turacos, hornbills, and diverse ducks were far more interesting than the robins and catbirds scrounging around the exhibits. Encountering exotics raises all manner of questions in birders, the toughest of which rarely center on identification.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2023

Between March and May, we say goodbye to more than half our duck and wood warbler species, as well as about half of all our shorebirds, vireos, hummingbirds, buntings, sparrows, and orioles, and many members of other avian families.

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South America Pigs Mexico Species 166

10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2020

And, the One-page Index, a quick reference to locating major bird families, is placed in two locations–the front and the back of the book. When you review the system, it makes perfect sense: falcons are placed with hawks, nightjars are next to owls, and grebes are close to ducks, rather than separated from them by quail and grouse.

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North America America Hawaii Birds 201

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 21, 2015

On the drive I had picked up the flamboyant Red-collared and Long-tailed Widowbirds , extraordinary members of the weaver family who’s ridiculous tails make them easy to spot even from a moving car. Longclaws are African members of the pipit and wagtail family, and unlike the rest of the family they have gorgeously-coloured throats.

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South Africa Africa Falcons Family 145

10,000 Birds

APRIL 8, 2012

The month and this particular period is all the more auspicious for me and mine, as so many friends and families celebrate spring birthdays. My family took our annual post-Easter Egg hunt hike at Powder Mills Park, where I spied several gorgeous matched pairs of Wood Ducks along with lots of different woodpecker species.

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2012 Birds Eggs Hunting 180

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Instead, the mid-sized family Accipiter was named for William Cooper – noted conchologist and colleague to such bird-name luminaries as Thomas Nuttall and Charles Lucien Bonaparte (who did the naming).

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ALA Woodpeckers Ducks Family 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2015

Since we’ve covered some generalities already, once a month I’ll be exploring how a species, genus, or family of birds got its name, and how those names fit in with our larger understanding of, and relationship with, birds. At the request of blog management, I’m embarking on a series of posts on the names of birds.

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Falcons Eagles Meat Geese 259

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 23, 2023

These two Hadada Ibis are reenacting the mirror scene from “Duck soup” (sort of). At vulture family gatherings, it is always a bit of a bother for the organizers to cater to the needs of the Palm Nut Vulture. These Hadada Ibis were right in the garden of the place where we stayed. The name is dutch-german for hammerhead.

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South Africa Africa Birds 2018 147

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 28, 2014

Fairy Martins were busy nesting under the bridge and the water body and surrounds were home to Glossy Ibis, Black-necked Stork, Australasian Grebe, Australasian Darter, Plumed Whistling-Ducks, White-faced Herons and Great Egret to name a few species. Plumed Whistling-Ducks. Black-winged Stilt. Grey-crowned Babbler roost.

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Birds Ducks 2015 2014 145

10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2011

home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds / Bufflehead in Flight Bufflehead in Flight By Corey • March 13, 2011 • 8 comments Tweet Share Bufflehead are one of our most amusing ducks. Bufflehead are the smallest of North America’s diving ducks.

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2011 Ducks Deer New York 150

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2017

I had a bunch of birds to choose from this weekend as I spent the afternoon hiking upstate with the family and all morning on Sunday building up my new year list. Here’s hoping everyone has a wonderful 2017, full of amazing birds and experiences.

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2017 2016 New York Birds 124

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2019

But come spring, an even luckier few may even find a fellow survivor of their own kind with whom to start a family, unwittingly causing contentious debates among birders about the countability of established feral populations in the process.

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North America Vermont America Farming 113

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Feeding birds is generally regarded as a harmless past-time, a wholesome way for people to share nature and enjoy wildlife with the family. Granted, the law is written poorly, but the man was given several warnings and insisted on feeding birds on the ground and attracted huge flocks of ducks and no doubt raccoons at night.

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Bald Eagle Birds Deer Minnesota 239

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2012

We are back from our ten-day family vacation to Berlin and Prague and it was awesome. Mandarin Ducks are countable in Germany. What’s not to like about cobblestone streets, great architecture, wonderful friends, lots of beer and delicious food, unfamiliar birds, and not working for ten days? Nothing, that’s what!

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Germany Ducks Birds New York 163

10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2023

Here in Broome we observe a good selection of ducks and the most prolific at the Broome Poo Ponds is usually the Plumed Whistling-Duck. One of our favourite ducks is the Pink-eared Duck. Pacific Black Ducks lay up to 16 eggs and sometimes two clutches are raised in a year.

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Ducks Australia Eggs Raised 130

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2014

As a result the sea ice has become more unstable, endangering the Inuit who hunt and work on the bay and the ducks who can no longer rely on their instincts to find open water. The one thing that a traditional nature documentary often lacks is real characters, to its detriment.

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Woodchucks Chipmunks Rodents Seals 227

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Not a great place for a family vacation, though I think Duncan will disagree. Species Accounts are grouped by family, following what appears to be Sibley and Monroe’s 1996 taxonomy. (I So, we start with Megapodes (scrubfowl), Pheasants, and Partridges, then on to Ducks. Artwork is by Karen Phillips.

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