10,000 Birds
MAY 22, 2013
This just doesn’t seem like rocket science to me. A 2011 survey by the U.S. Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp (Duck Stamp) sales were at their peak in the 1970′s with 2.1 This means that only 11% of hunters buy the Duck Stamp raising approximately $25 million a year. A lot more money! million hunters.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 14, 2017
Answers will be forthcoming, but for now, I can tell you that they are all members of the mallard complex , a roster of about 20 closely-related Anas -species ducks around the world. The mallard is a mighty duck indeed, successful all across its broad range from the Americas through Eurasia down into Australia and New Zealand.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 20, 2011
O beautiful for whistling ducks! Even in the Brazilian Amazon, I’ve never seen this many whistling ducks together–there were sixty at a manmade lake behind the Brevard Community College near Titusville, Florida. Black-bellied Whistling Ducks. a tropical delight! What a sight.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 14, 2011
By Julie • March 14, 2011 • 18 comments Tweet Share ACTION ALERT! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public comment on a proposal to hunt sandhill cranes in Kentucky. A Great Backyard Bird Count Miracle Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of January 2011) What is the International Bird Rescue Research Center Anyway?
10,000 Birds
APRIL 7, 2016
That study (which used data from 2011) claimed that there were 47 million “birders,” of which 41 million were stay-at-home “backyard birders” and 18 million were more active “away-from-home” birders who traveled at least a mile to see birds. But driving a mile to walk at the local park and seeing ducks on the pond does not a birder make.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 1, 2021
The photographs are from VIREO, the ornithological image collection associated with the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, which licenses bird photographs to many guides and reference books. Press, 2011, cited as “RTP to Paul Brooks, March 6, 1945, Peterson Institute.” The grand total is 817 species!
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 11, 2018
Other papers are locked behind paywalls.) That research ultimately led to an article about the conservation efforts regarding the Laysan Duck in the June 2017 issue of Birding. Over two years (2011 and 2012), scientists captured 50 birds and successfully transported them from Niho to Laysan. 2011): 265-272. and Antony W.
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