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FEBRUARY 17, 2013

This, the weekend of the Great Backyard Bird Count , is one of those times: tell us how you contributed to citizen science. Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was any of the Long-tailed Ducks he spotted this weekend along the coast in a fruitless search for his first Harlequin Ducks of the year. How about you?

2013 167

2013 Science Ducks Birds 167

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DECEMBER 15, 2013

To all you hardy naturalists who have already logged Christmas Bird Count hours in service to citizen science, I salute you! Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend could have been either his first Harlequin Duck or his first Glaucous Gull of the year. Winter has come early and often to Western NY.

2013 170

2013 Shelters Birds Science 170

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MAY 12, 2020

There were similar FWS studies using similar methodologies with similar findings in 2003 , 2007 , and 2013. But, I think most would agree that driving a mile to walk at the local park and seeing ducks on the pond does not a birder make. Note : This is based on an earlier post that assessed the 2013 version of the FWS survey.

2016 264

2016 North America 2020 2019 264

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APRIL 7, 2016

In 2013, the U.S. But driving a mile to walk at the local park and seeing ducks on the pond does not a birder make. But that estimate is admittedly more art than science, depending, as it does, on one’s estimate of what fraction of birders would engage in these countable activities. How many birders are there in America?

Wildlife 185

Wildlife Portland 2002 Collecting 185

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MARCH 14, 2011

I feel certain that, given Tennessee’s 18-year track record of celebrating cranes in a tremendously successful festival, the opposition will only be stronger in 2013. You don’t even have to have a duck stamp! TWRC’s response to the outcry was a two-year stay on the proposed season. Isn’t that neat?

2011 260

2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 260

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DECEMBER 17, 2013

Many, many things happened in the area of bird science this year, so this review can not be comprehensive. 02–19 There may be a crisis of the Duck Stamp, and the relationship between duck hunting, habitat preservation, and funding may be shifting as Duck numbers and Duck stamp sales no longer correlate.

Science 198

Science 2013 Elephants Birds 198

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JANUARY 5, 2019

Plumed Whistling-Duck – Dendrocygna eytoni. White-faced Whistling-Duck – Dendrocygna viduata. Black-bellied Whistling-Duck – Dendrocygna autumnalis. West Indian Whistling-Duck – Dendrocygna arborea. West Indian Whistling-Duck – Dendrocygna arborea. Wood Duck – Aix sponsa.

2018 113

2018 Australia Woodpeckers Sparrows 113