10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
Serious birders may have an obsessive interest in birds, but one thing they universally don’t like are birds which, they believe, aren’t properly wild. This individual was photographed in India There’s one problem with this approach, as it can lead to birds being ignored.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 17, 2019
The Christmas Bird Count was the answer. The IWC census starts from mid-January following the logic that it is the period when the birds have reached their wintering grounds and are rather static, so the chance of double-counting the same flock is minimal. But it is so frustrating to pass the birds by without IDing them!
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 6, 2011
Most of the world’s domestic geese can be traced back thousands of years to the wild Greylag Goose ( Anser anser ) although domestic geese were also bred from Swan Goose ( A. Feral geese run the gamut from pure white to almost entirely gray or brown. cygnoides ) ancestors. Get yours today!
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 4, 2016
At the snowy Danube riverbank, we are waiting for geese to come to their roost inside the mostly submerged island. Also, Little and Great Crested Grebes , Pygmy and Great Cormorants , Eurasian Coots and Common Moorhens , Black-headed and Caspian Gulls … And a lot more birds further in the background. Watch for the dark beaks.”
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 27, 2015
Ah Hawaii, land of beautiful beaches, surfing, warm weather, and unique birds. Because of its distance to the mainland, Hawaii is home to over 60 species of endemic birds. Few are as unique (or rare) as the Nene , or Hawaiian Goose , Hawaii’s state bird. Unlike other geese, Nenes prefer walking to swimming.
10,000 Birds
JULY 25, 2014
On 22 January 1879, a pair of Egyptian Geese sat quietly on top of Isandlwana Hill and watched closely. When I started birding in earnest during the 1980s in south-west Germany, no one talked about Egyptian Geese. And for the first time ever in Europe, I encountered a few Egyptian Geese somewhere around Amsterdam.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 1, 2012
It is commonly kept in captivity and has therefore established many feral populations world-wide originating from escaped / released cage birds. This is what happens when people choose their pet birds on visual factors alone without taking vocalizations into account. Very stupid thing to do.
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