10,000 Birds

APRIL 8, 2019

But best of all — the thing that shows, surely, that he was born under a lucky star, is this: he’s now (as of 2005, when he migrated, permanently, to Ohio) — a Buckeye. More than 5,000 bird species in the world make some kind of seasonal movement. Kaufman is a terrific writer and A Season on the Wind is a terrific book.

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Ohio Bats Legislature Ducks 201

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Mostly the ducks were Red-breasted Merganser and Greater Scaup , the two most prevalent species on the pond, but there were a few other birds mixed in as well. Hes only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasnt working as a union representative or spending time with his family.

Ducks 174

Ducks 2011 Jamaica New York 174

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2014

I’d never heard of them until 2005 when I saw some in the Botanical Gardens of Canberra in Australia. There were two species there, even, of a type I had never heard of. You’ll find pardalotes over most of Australia, but only four species in all. It was, recently, pardaoltes that got me thinking about this.

Australia 173

Australia Fiji Hunters Family 173

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The Crossley ID Guide: Waterfowl covers every residential, migrating, vagrant, exotic, and introduced swan, goose, dabbling and diving duck in North America (Canada and the United States): 62 Species Accounts on four swan species and one vagrant subspecies; 15 goose species; 46 duck species; plus accounts for hybrid geese, ducks and exotics.

Ducks 124

Ducks North America Geese Hunters 124