10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2016

Ducks, swans, and geese may initially appear easy to identify. This is the first bird guide I’ve reviewed that has utilized and credited a Flickr group, the Bird Hybirds Flickr Forum. Or, a Tufted Duck or Cackling Goose. Or, for an increasing number of birders, an “interesting hybrid.”.

North America 156

North America Asia Europe America 156

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 18, 2016

The different main groups of living birds differentiated from one another prior to the extinction of the dinosaurs, ca. 66 million years ago, and one of those groups gave rise to the ducks and geese. One of the few reasonably well studied really early true birds is a member of this group, the genus Vegavis.

Groups 170

Groups Collecting Primates Bats 170

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

It’s a small group of 10 to 12 researchers and crew members, and Fox is the sole person responsible for the bird surveys. Here is her description of migrating Snow Geese: I’d seen snow geese at great distances offshore or far overhead, but here they are passing me by, low on the water, where the wind speed is lessened.

Fox 100

Fox Albatross Geese Bald Eagle 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2016

Some of the bird species we had observed already this year and they were on the 2016 year list , but we had not been able to photograph several of them at such close quarters. The header photo shows the typical spectacle of Magpie Geese and other birds at Knuckey Lagoon in Darwin in September! Australian Bustard.

Australia 157

Australia Birds Geese Litter 157

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Since the election in 2016, Merriam-Webster has experienced something of a cultural resurgence. Swan : “any of various large heavy-bodied long-necked mostly pure white aquatic birds (family Anatidae, especially genus Cygnus ) that have webbed feet and are related to but larger than the geese.”.

Albatross 105

Albatross Bears Ducks Bald Eagle 105

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 5, 2017

“Ducks, Geese, and Swans” in the front, “Blackbirds” in the back; “Caracaras and Falcons” next to “Old World Parrots,” “Loons” about one-third of the way down the list, after “Tropicbirds” and before “Albatrosses.”

North America 186

North America America 2017 Birds 186

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 122

Ducks North America Geese Hunters 122