Christmas Bird Counting in Queens
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 22, 2014
Add to that my early morning Eastern Screech-Owl at Cunningham Park (My first in Queens!) and I had a pretty good day.
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Birding on Steroids or the Kerkini Lake in 10 Pictures
10,000 Birds
APRIL 30, 2015
A quick check of the Collins 2 (I think American birders know this book as the “Birds of Europe”, but here, some branding mastermind has interconnected the company’s name and the book title) revealed that we are facing two Siberian Greylag Geese (race rubrirostris ). Picture 2: Lesser Spotted Eagle – Clanga pomarina.
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Meet Suliformes, one of the newest orders of birds
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. But meanwhile, let’s look at the four avian families that comprise the brand new order Suliformes.
Those magnificent places down the Danube
10,000 Birds
JUNE 8, 2017
Looking at the river, I cannot believe my memories of the same place this January – frozen solid, with just a small opening in the ice – and 26,000 geese in it! Eurasian Wryneck by Martien Brand / Wikimedia Commons. Lesser Grey Shrike by Dûrzan Cîrano / Wikimedia Commons. Movement inside a roadside bush, maybe 4 feet from the car.
“Valley of the Wild Geese”: Glengoyne 15 Year Old Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 31, 2020
Glengoyne’s understated logo shows a simple silhouette of two standing geese facing one another, rendered either in silver or gold depending on the bottling – a nod to the distillery’s name, which means “the valley of the geese” in Gaelic. Gäss ( Geese ) (1922) by Swedish painter Bruno Liljefors (1860-1939).
Grey Goose Vodka
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 27, 2019
It was inevitable that Birds and Booze would one day get around to reviewing Grey Goose, the popular and high-profile brand of premium French vodka that comes in an attractive bottle adorned with frosty white silhouettes of geese in flight.
National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America, 7th Edition: A Field Guide Review
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.” Mississippi Kite, for example.
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