10,000 Birds
JANUARY 7, 2013
I had some goals for this year as well, goals which I laid out in the introduction to my 2012 year list. I came up just short of reaching 1,100 Birds on my overall World Life List , clocking in at 1,096, not a bad increase of 48 from the beginning of 2012 when I started at 1,048. January 2012 started off with a bang.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 12, 2012
Though Corey had a host of good birds to choose from (again) he has decided that his Best Bird of the Weekend was the one he found because he took the time to scope through a ginormous flock of Canada Geese : a diminutive Cackling Goose at Blue Chip Farm in southern Ulster County, New York.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 5, 2022
This chapter also covers vagrancy in social migrants, and why vagrancy is common in ‘obligate social navigators’ like geese and cranes, a thought which got me thinking of all the times I’ve searched for one Barnacle Goose amidst hundreds of Canada Geese. Next time, I’ll know why.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
It was apparently all the way back in 2012, when I was first getting back into birding after a 30 year hiatus, that I took a sad little picture, with my sad little camera, of a cute little bird that seemed to not show up anywhere at all in my field guide. It’s a good thing the piece I had written doesn’t depend on images.
Animal Ethics
AUGUST 21, 2012
Foie gras is the diseased liver of ducks or geese that have been force-fed through pipes shoved down their throats. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals applauds the efforts of those district attorneys and animal control officers who are enforcing the law against those few chefs who continue to flout it.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
That is a big difference compared to the 2,000+ singing males detected in 2012, well above the recovery goal for this species set by the U.S. Aleutian Cackling Geese on Buldir Island, Alaska, where they made their final stand. With a six-figure population now, Cackling Geese are an abundant visitor the west coast and the Aleutians.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 5, 2016
Ducks, swans, and geese may initially appear easy to identify. The extensive Species Accounts take up two-thirds of the book and constitute possibly the most complete, up-to-date coverage in print of ducks, geese, and swans residing or migrating in North America, Europe, and Asia. Or, a Tufted Duck or Cackling Goose.
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