10,000 Birds
JANUARY 5, 2024
My pre-breakfast list was wildfowl dominated, the 10 species I saw ranging from Black-necked Swans to the endemic Falkland Islands Flightless Steamer Duck. The latter are great bruisers of ducks, built like a small battle ship. With bulk like that, it’s no wonder that they gave up flying long ago. as they sheered into the wind.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 5, 2024
Many refuges are strategically located along major flyways, allowing ducks and geese to hopscotch their way up the continent to northern breeding grounds and back down again. For example, most of the world’s Black-footed and Laysan Albatross and Ashy Storm-Petrel breed on these islands.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 25, 2014
They include Black-footed Albatrosses , Laysan Ducks , and roughly 65 percent of the world’s Laysan Albatrosses. Between 2012 and 2013, populations of Laysan and Black-footed Albatrosses at Midway reached near-record levels. Photos of the Black-footed, above, and the Laysan, below, both from Duncan.). mainland.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 14, 2016
In the interim, I hung around Lake Ontario watching Mallards oppressing American Black Ducks. Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was an easy one to choose as it was his first albatross, a Black-footed Albatross off the coast of California. Though the Bar-tailed Godwit he saw on Sunday was pretty good too.).
10,000 Birds
JUNE 12, 2018
These remote islands, some more than 1,000 miles from Honolulu, are home to huge globally-significant colonies of Laysan and Black-footed Albatross, among many others. In 2015, mice suddenly started attacking albatrosses sitting on nests and attacks have been steadily increasing since. This will focus on the requirements of NEPA.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 25, 2016
When Corey asked us if we would like to compile a top ten this year instead of our one “best bird” I realised that his ALBATROSS would be the number one bird, but he obviously had some equally good birds that he wanted to give some credit to. Pintail Duck was another sneaky bird! Pintail Duck. Barnacle Goose.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 9, 2021
And, in a nice irony, an example par excellence of the law of unintended consequences: the Redhead, a diving duck, has an aversion to wind turbines, and will change its feeding areas to avoid them. “Scientists fear that this may cause them to lose condition over winter and thus damage their breeding prospects.”
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