10,000 Birds

JANUARY 6, 2014

It’s cold enough in Chicago—where our high temperature for the day was –2 degrees Farenheit—that the polar bear at the zoo spent the day inside. Should you worry about their well-being as Holden Caulfield worries about the Central Park ducks ? It’s cold enough to freeze vodka. It’s colder than both the South and North Poles.

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Polar Bears Illinois Chicago Zoos 163

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Birding that starts with the largest eagle of the continent certainly bears promises… The next stop is the town park in Opovo, north of Belgrade, where local bird expert Ceda Vuckovic reported one, locally rare, Short-eared Owl. He will think twice before guarantying the GGS next time’ the British birder wrote.

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Serbia Owls Rodents Eagles 243

10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2013

If you live near water, you can try some duck nesting tubes. I see them all over in marshes in Minnesota but I had never seen a duck use one. I didn’t think they were as agile as a wood duck, but apparently they can. I saw this at Bear River Migratory Refuge in Utah. I used to be very skeptical of these.

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Minnesota Barn Owls Ducks Utah 181

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

The researchers flew a quiet quadcopter drone more than 200 times at different angles and speeds near populations of semi-captive mallard ducks, wild flamingos, and common greenshanks — watching the birds for signs of stress, such as head or tail movements or flying away.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2016

These refuges support huge numbers of swans, geese, ducks, cranes, and shorebirds as they hopscotch their way to breeding grounds in the north. Additionally, funds from Duck Stamps allow the System to gradually expand , as FWS purchases land and obtains conservation easements from willing sellers. (A It’s not just for the birds.

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Wildlife Grizzly Bear Puerto Rico United States 189

10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2023

Why did the duck become a detective? Here are five birding jokes for you: Why don’t birds make good comedians? Because their jokes always “fly” over our heads! What do you call a bird that can fix anything? A “repairrot”! It always quacked the case! What do you call a bird that’s afraid to fly?

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United States Michigan Texas Virginia 162

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

African Black Duck – Anas sparsa. White-faced Whistling-Duck – Dendrocygna viduata. Mandarin Duck – Aix galericulata. Tufted Duck – Aythya fuligula. Bear Grass Tank. Bear Grass Tank. Bear Grass Tank. Bear Grass Tank. Bear Grass Tank. Bear Grass Tank.

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2019 China Battery Jamaica 119

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2019

And because of the resemblance they bear to their New World cousins in the family Phasianidae , they even look the part of an “authentic” wild bird in North America. The same can’t really be said of a confusing Orange Bishop or gaudy Mandarin Duck loose in a city park.

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North America Vermont America Farming 113

10,000 Birds

JULY 13, 2017

Lassen Volcanic National Park is one of the few places that this incredible cavity nesting duck breeds in Northern California. The park is home to approximately 57 species of mammals ranging is size from the tiny shrew to the North American black bear. She is in a snag, at least forty feet up!

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Woodpeckers Sacramento Raised Squirrels 102

4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 16, 2009

Inevitably, it’s a situation where you were there, and for me, it’s the swimming male polar bear. I was up high, high in the helicopter with this special, stabilized camera system we were using, and I knew that I was filming something that had never been filmed before because you can’t normally follow a polar bear out into the open ocean.

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Polar Bears Bears Walruses Norway 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

I’ll be the first to admit the selection of ducks so far at Booze and Birds has been rather paltry. Stumpy Duck is an American pale ale by Trillium Brewing Company of Boston, Massachusetts, one of the most popular breweries in New England for the past few years. Trillium Brewing Company: Stumpy Duck American Pale Ale.

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Ducks Houston Boston Fowl 104

10,000 Birds

APRIL 26, 2011

I headed out down past the half dozen homes left at the edge of town and out onto the sea ice, ducking below the windshield as I accelerated out to the point. I scanned the frozen ocean, after all this is Polar Bear country. It no longer gets dark now, and we are only about a week and a half from the Sun not setting at all.

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Polar Bears Bears Falcons Collecting 155

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2016

My Eastern Sibley served me well, replacing the Peterson’s with which I learned my ducks and waders. Am I willing to give up the field guide which bears the mud and dirt of so many falls on so many birding trips?

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North America 2003 Birds America 169

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 11, 2011

Ringer Proposition 491, recently submitted to the American Ornithologists’ Union South American Classification Committee (SACC), bears the esoteric title “ Change linear sequence of orders for Falconiformes, Psittaciformes, and Cariamiformes.&# Separating ducks and coots is one thing, but separating hawks and falcons?

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Parrots Falcons Costa Rica South America 236

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Beside birds, in this park you stand a chance of spotting the Eurasian Lynx , Brown Bear and Gray Wolf ! Well, do you really?

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Serbia Turtles Birds Eagles 195

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2015

There’s a Sloth Bear in tall, dry grass, barely 50 metres from us, but all we can see is a dark, shape-shifting shadow that eventually becomes all but invisible. The Little Egret walks in front of her, a dozen Lesser Whistling Ducks flies noisily low above water and through a flooded grass wades one Black-winged Stilt. The Telia Lake.

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Tigers India Killing 2012 251

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2011

Even the ones that bear the same plumage as their progenitors, however, can usually be distinguished by their larger bulk. • Explore These Related Posts Tree Swallows Return, It Must Be Spring Stalking a Kiwi Icon Polygynandry and the Alpine Accentor Duck Migration Finally Saw-Whet.Or Get yours today!

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Geese 2011 Deer New York 145

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 23, 2016

Coming from Niagara Falls, New York, it also means freezing, bitter cold, watching for imaginary Polar Bears while pretending to walk through an Arctic landscape, and looking for owls. American Black Duck – Anas rubripes; Niagara county, 2-Jan. Harlequin Duck – Histrionicus histrionicus; Niagara county, 2-Jan.

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Costa Rica 2016 San Antonio Sparrows 101

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2019

Birds may have taken to these artificial perches like ducks to water, but human reactions to the newfangled poles and wires were hardly as appreciative, especially in the early day. Utility poles have been with us for some time: Vincent van Gogh depicted some in this 1888 roadside sketch. As Daniel L.

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United States Game North America New York City 118

10,000 Birds

JUNE 24, 2011

Yes, fellow birders, I keep a detailed list of all the species I have seen whilst I have been on the throne, peeing behind trees, or making like the proverbial bear in the woods. A glorious black monstrous male, he pecked at a berry with his ivory-white beak then turned and ducked back behind cover. I take it to the toilet.

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Chile Australia Monkeys 2008 201

10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2011

When the American Ornithologists’ Union publishes its annual North American checklist update next month, many birders will be disappointed to see that a proposal to re-split Mexican Duck ( Anas diazi ) from Mallard ( Anas platyrhynchos ) has failed. © David J. © David J.

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Ducks North America Texas Mexico 169

10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

• Explore These Related Posts First Phoebe of 2011 Duck Migration Review of Gulf Crossing Cold Front Connecticut in Carolina (or how migrants surprise us).Or Or These Blasts From The Past Reason To Become A Bird Watcher #13: Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My! Get yours today! One that’s way overdue is Mipit.

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2011 Deer Fish New York 155

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

The first guide bearing the National Audubon Society imprint was Audubon Bird Guide; Eastern Land Birds , written by Richard Hooper Pough, and illustrated by Don Eckelberry. Audubon guides to birds have been around since 1946. The grand total is 817 species!

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North America America Birds California Condor 279

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Forget lions, tigers, and bears – if Internet listicles are to be believed, all of Oz is full of crocodiles, sharks, jellyfish, snakes, spiders – even magpies – that are dead set on killing, maiming, or injuring any humans they encounter.

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2019 Australia Ducks Fowl 235

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2019

Of course, birders interested in contributing more concretely to the National Wildlife Refuge System should buy a Duck Stamp every year. Duck Stamps help conserve critical avian habitat regardless of who is in the White House. Bear River MBR (Utah): 158,000 visits generating $4.1 million in economic activity and 8 jobs.

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Wildlife Maryland San Francisco Minnesota 256

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 105

10,000 Birds

JUNE 19, 2015

Cinereous Tit, Cinereous Bunting, and Cinereous Vulture all bear this standard, but perhaps the most popular cinereous bird on the internet is the Cinereous Mourner , with its clever and adorable chicks. Reddish-brownish-yellowish Whistling Duck or Reddish-brownish-yellowish Babbler would be silly names for a bird. James so popular.

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Blackbirds Owls Sparrows Ducks 162

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 15, 2018

We had persevered through four years at the top of Battery Harris Platform and could bring our experience to bear on the task of trying to record as many species as possible on a single day from that single spot. I had high hopes for the 5th Annual Queens County Bird Club Big Sit this past Saturday at Fort Tilden.

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2018 Bald Eagle Battery Birds 207

10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2019

Plumed Whistling-Duck – Dendrocygna eytoni. Pacific Black Duck – Anas superciliosa. Pink-eared Duck – Malacorhynchus membranaceus. Plumed Whistling-Duck – Dendrocygna eytoni. Pacific Black Duck – Anas superciliosa. Pink-eared Duck – Malacorhynchus membranaceus.

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2019 Australia Ghana Woodpeckers 113

10,000 Birds

MAY 16, 2018

Lawrence, is the “Strangest Island in the World,” where, in a biotic reversal, introduced deer (who ate berries) chased away the bears, and where introduced frogs made the island, weirdly, a watery northern wilderness without many bugs. One is duck sex, which can be, he says, “elaborately aesthetic or shockingly violent and deeply troubling.”

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Humane Species North America Sparrows 104

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2019

Lemmon–Bear Canyon (General Hitchcock Campground). Lemmon–Bear Canyon (General Hitchcock Campground). Lemmon–Bear Canyon (General Hitchcock Campground). Mandarin Duck – Aix galericulata. Freckled Duck – Stictonetta naevosa. Eastern Spot-billed Duck – Anas zonorhyncha. ????–?????????????

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2019 Australia Ghana Woodpeckers 113

10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2019

Plumed Whistling-Duck – Dendrocygna eytoni. White-faced Whistling-Duck – Dendrocygna viduata. Black-bellied Whistling-Duck – Dendrocygna autumnalis. Fulvous Whistling-Duck – Dendrocygna bicolor. Wandering Whistling-Duck – Dendrocygna arcuata. Freckled Duck – Stictonetta naevosa.

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2019 Ghana Australia Woodpeckers 113

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2011

Informed literature bears out my experience that most birds are seen singly or in pairs. • Explore These Related Posts Tree Swallows Return, It Must Be Spring Stalking a Kiwi Icon Polygynandry and the Alpine Accentor Duck Migration Finally Saw-Whet.Or The former British colony’s Z.c.

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2011 Deer India New York 189

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2011

• Explore These Related Posts Tree Swallows Return, It Must Be Spring Stalking a Kiwi Icon Duck Migration Finally Saw-Whet Sea Snakes of Northern Australia.Or Might I assume that women typically bear fewer children, or fewer survive? Get yours today! In this case, they would be exhibiting polyandry.

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2011 Breeders Breeding Deer 219

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Though the coast of British Columbia, a part of the Great Bear Rainforest, was rich in both, it was appallingly deficient in scientific data. The Achiever’s survey voyages took place from 2005 to 2008; the goal was to collect baseline data on sea mammals and marine birds. And, this was badly needed.

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Fox Albatross Geese Bald Eagle 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2020

I’d like a beer too, please, as I have never seen a Masked Duck. It bears an iconic name associated with insanity and betrayal, but also with time and seasonality. This weird little skulking waterfowl is a species I had hoped to chance upon in various places for quite some time. In a year divided by pre-pandemic birds (travel!),

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2020 Birds Germany Costa Rica 242

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 28, 2016

We have a small resident population of Black-bellied Whistling Ducks. While in Kodiak Alaska, I did get a few very nice Kodiak Grizzly Bear shots. This large bear was chasing salmon, and paid me little or no attention. I don’t get to see them very often, but they showed up early one morning near the tidal flats.

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