10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 25, 2016

Barnacle Goose is my choice for the next bird, because we discovered one lone bird among all of the hundreds of Canada Geese , Greylag Geese and Eurasian Wigeon at Freiston Shore and it was as if it was a test to see if we would notice “the odd one out”! Canada Geese , Greylag Geese and Eurasian Wigeon.

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2016 Geese Birds Ducks 155

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 11, 2016

On New Year’s Day 2016, our last day in California before heading back to New York, I was pleased for the chance to get out for a few hours in the morning to jump start the year list. Dabbling ducks, diving ducks, grebes, woodpeckers, shorebirds, waders, songbirds, raptors, flycatchers, hummingbirds: this gem of a sanctuary has it all!

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Sanctuary Wildlife California Ducks 101

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2016

Or, a Tufted Duck or Cackling Goose. Ducks, swans, and geese may initially appear easy to identify. Plate 29, Mallard and Mexican Duck. Probably a duck calendar and a map of migratory routes would help. Plate 40: Hybrid dabbling ducks (a continuation of Plate 39).

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North America Asia Europe America 162

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 4, 2017

The standout was the Cape Barren Goose , which not only has an awesome name but is also thought to be the last survivor of a lineage of geese that used to forage the grasslands of Antarctica before the whole place got all icy. So I was particularly pleased when one of the last birds I saw was a Spot-billed Duck, a local bird and lifer.

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United Arab Emirates 2016 Ethiopia New Zealand 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 27, 2020

The expected Australian Pelicans were there and a handful of Plumed Whistling-Ducks , Eurasian Coot , Masked Lapwings and an Olive-backed Oriole was calling continuously. It is only during particularly wet seasons that Magpie Geese come to Broome and already they have started to arrive. Magpie Geese enjoying the flooded plains.

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Geese 2016 Pelicans Australia 164

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 18, 2016

66 million years ago, and one of those groups gave rise to the ducks and geese. Novas, published in Nature (Published on line, 12 October 2016). The different main groups of living birds differentiated from one another prior to the extinction of the dinosaurs, ca. Isasi, Daniel R. Martinioni, Francisco J.

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Groups Collecting Primates Bats 171

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

There are 160 to 200 species of marine birds here, depending on your definition of “marine bird” (Fox defines it as “species traditionally considered coastal,” including birds like Sandhill Cranes with the more traditional tubenoses, gulls, and ducks). Snow Geese, photo courtesy of Tom Middleton.

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Fox Albatross Geese Bald Eagle 100