10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

The shallows at its lower end are full of Tufted Ducks (500) and Common Pochards (350), Great Cormorants (50), all of them dissolving in the mist hanging low over water and hiding further rafts. A few dozen Common Goldeneyes and several Smews are among them but it takes a scope to locate these diminutive ducks.

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Serbia Geese Eagles Louisiana 264

10,000 Birds

APRIL 9, 2019

Although little-known, WPAs provide critical breeding, resting, and nesting habitat for millions of ducks, geese, and swans, as well as shorebirds and grassland species. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) estimates that 2-3 million geese and 7-9 million ducks use use the basin every spring as staging grounds on the journey north.

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Nebraska Dissection Geese Ducks 146

10,000 Birds

APRIL 9, 2019

Although little-known, WPAs provide critical breeding, resting, and nesting habitat for millions of ducks, geese, and swans, as well as shorebirds and grassland species. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) estimates that 2-3 million geese and 7-9 million ducks use use the basin every spring as staging grounds on the journey north.

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Nebraska Dissection Geese Ducks 113

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2014

New Zealand had, once upon a time, some fairly spectacular game birds, including massive flightless geese, massive flightles rails, and really enormous moa. New Zealand had a widespread dabbling duck, the Grey Duck ( Pacific Black Duck if you’re an Aussie) but these were declining a in number because of changes to their habitat.

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Species New Zealand Ducks Game 164

Critter News

OCTOBER 18, 2011

But for seven hours on Friday night, at a restaurant appropriately known as Animal, three chefs presented an eight-course meal that was nothing short of a glorification of this soon-to-be-outlawed delicacy. Excerpted from The New York Times. In eight months, the sale of foie gras will be banned in California.

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Foie Gras California Veal Protest 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 24, 2018

This 57,331 acre refuge was set aside as a critical wintering location for tens of thousands of Geese, Ducks and Sandhill Cranes. Nearly 30,000 of these acres is set aside as dry wilderness habitat for other birds, animals and other various living creatures. There was also a small raft of Ruddy Ducks.

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New Mexico Mexico Tucson Arizona 113

4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 5, 2011

A Chance for Bliss takes in and provides lifetime care for senior and special needs animals, as well as those others who are facing end of life circumstances. The purpose is therefore to provide a Forever Home for those companion and farm animals that have virtually no chance of being adopted due to their age or condition.

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Sanctuary Horses Adoptable Goats 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 8, 2012

Here are some ads: This is from Advanced Telemetry Systems and it advertises how you can tag wildlife like coyotes and then check on your animals from anywhere…even from your beach vacation…and the magical wireless internet that is available there for your laptop.

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Industry Wildlife Coyotes Battery 163

10,000 Birds

JUNE 29, 2013

Joseph Chiera is a Masters student in Animal Behavior and Conservation at Hunter College in NYC and a “somewhat newbie” to birding. Still, there are plenty of other birds and animals to see along the way, including Glaucous and other gulls, geese, herds of sheep and Icelandic horses.

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Iceland Puffins Europe Birds 180

Animal Person

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

There is a rational, and for some people a spiritual, case for being a vegetarian: Killing animals is wrong. I repeat: If you eat meat (I'd say: products that come from animals) , you cannot logically find it morally or ethically repugnant to eat a particular meat (i.e., product that comes from an animal ). The theory is sound.

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Pigs Dogs Meat Ethics 100

Animal Ethics

AUGUST 21, 2012

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. Foie gras is the diseased liver of ducks or geese that have been force-fed through pipes shoved down their throats.

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Foie Gras New York Times New York Ethical Treatment 40

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2024

Late summer 2023 the lakes and ponds had been empty, presumably because the ducks and geese were moulting. Empty no more, the ponds were now brimming with ducks of all creeds and persuasions – it was spectacular. After a pleasant morning with ducks, crisp snow and sunshine, we followed the wildlife trail on our way out.

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Denver Colorado Ducks Mules 137

10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2013

Clicking on the map will take you to an explanation of this important biome, including its climate and its plant and animal species. More than 1 million birds, including tundra swans, snow geese and countless ducks, stop to rest and gather strength in these undisturbed wetlands each autumn.

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Obama 2008 United States Industry 235

10,000 Birds

JULY 19, 2011

It is run by businessman Craig Shepard and his wife on the grounds of their home, and is basically what any birder’s home would look like if they were wealthy, an attractive home set in lovely gardens completely overrun by ducks.

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New Zealand Vet Collecting Geese 184

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 11, 2014

Joseph Chiera is a Masters student in Animal Behavior and Conservation at Hunter College in NYC and a “somewhat newbie” to birding. You can take in views of waterfowl including Eurasian Wigeon , Barnacle Geese , Trumpeter Swan , and a plethora of ducks and gulls. It’s a great place to spend the better part of a day!

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Finland Estonia Birds Europe 160

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Aleutian Cackling Geese on Buldir Island, Alaska, where they made their final stand. Aleutian Cackling Geese are another bird very familiar with the Pacific; they are the only species of goose that nest on Alaska’s remote Aleutian Islands. A curious Laysan Duck takes a stroll at Midway Atoll. Half Moon Bay, CA.

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Albatross Endangered Species Geese Alaska 195

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

Other birds with webbed feet, including ducks and geese, have only three webbed toes; the hallux (which in birds is usually the “hind toe&# and in humans, the “big toe&# ) is free. Another, hands against the animal’s vast side, said… March On Into Spring – I and The Bird #146 Mar 17th, 2011 at 12:37 am [.]

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2011 Pelicans Papua New Guinea Birds 150

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 9, 2018

It is now very hot and dry inland and the temperature does not drop much at night, so you go to bed early and get up early like the animals and birds. There were numerous Magpie Geese and Wandering Whistling-Ducks on the bank with Yellow Chats running among them to drink. Magpie Geese and Wandering Whistling-Ducks.

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Shelters Geese 2018 Ducks 114

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

There were a lot of birds about at this early hour and we were very surprised to see seven Magpie Geese fly by. After a very dry start to the year there had been no Magpie Geese observed locally at all. Plumed Whistling-Ducks , Hardhead, Black Kites, Australian White Ibis and Silver Gulls flew over the bay.

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Australia Litter Geese Cats 118

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Her writing is based on keen observation of animal and human behavior, and she likes to interweave solid natural history information with larger philosophical themes to challenge and inspire the reader. You don’t even have to have a duck stamp! Where Are You Birding this Second Weekend of March 2009? Isn’t that neat?

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 235

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

Magpie Geese, Purple Swamphen, Brolga and Pied Heron near the boardwalk The bird hide is shaded well and a nice breeze blows through it to save you from the dry 40c (105f) September days. The evidence above shows that there really are crocodiles in the billabong and the ducks are currently at ease with it!

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Pelicans Geese Australia Ducks 167

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Although birders know a duck or swan or goose when they see one, the definitions are interesting, as they are concise and precise, written by professional word-definers. Goose : “any of numerous large waterfowl (family Anatidae) that are intermediate between the swans and ducks and have long necks, feathered lores, and reticulate tarsi.”.

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Albatross Bears Ducks Bald Eagle 103

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2021

Our next stop was the Poo Ponds , where there are very few ducks now we have had some rain. A bit further from town we soon added Wandering Whistling Ducks and Magpie Geese to the list, but no longer were there a handful of birds. Wandering-Whistling Ducks. Magpie Geese. Four Dollarbirds.

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Geese Ducks Breeding Zebras 192