10,000 Birds
MAY 19, 2022
The main reason was the Ferruginous Duck which duly showed up, but to my surprise, followed by a kettle of two dozen Whiskered Terns… Wait! While Black Terns are regular migrants and even rare breeders (only 2 to 5 pairs nation-wide), White-winged are ill-numbered migrants and very irregular breeders (the last breeding was a decade ago).
10,000 Birds
APRIL 25, 2022
Heine (1840-1920) was a German ornithologist, agronomist, and plant-breeder and unfortunately not related to the substantially more famous German writer Heinrich Heine, which will not keep me from quoting the latter: “The more I get to know people, the more I like dogs.”
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 9, 2019
The predators have plenty of opportunities beyond the heronry with countless ducks, waders and galliformes. It was thought that later nests with smaller clutches were either replacement clutches from a failed nest or from low-quality breeders. Eggs often fall victim to the ubiquitous House Crow.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 28, 2014
This is similar to the fact that all birds, even first time breeders within a species build identical nests. Interestingly some of these ponds are favored by these herons for foraging and have ducks that are fed by people. They only need to master the technique by practicing; they are born knowing what to do.
Critter News
JUNE 1, 2009
A farm-animal breeder who ran what a prosecutor called "the zoo from hell" was convicted Tuesday of animal cruelty. The animals included ducks, chickens, guinea hens, rabbits, sheep, dogs and cats. And people wonder why I'm so disappointed by humans.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 6, 2022
There are charismatic birds like Barrow’s Goldeneye, Evening Grosbeak, Red and White-winged Crossbills; mysterious seabirds like Leach’s Storm-Petrel; ‘little brown jobs’ like Winter Wren and Nelson’s Sparrow; a treasury of warbler species, 27 in all, many state breeders.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 7, 2011
They are the first of our migrant breeders to go, and they are gone by the beginning of August. Winter has ducks and gulls and finches. The theatre of the evening sky that soothes the mind and brings to rest the hot summer days is over. The Common Swifts have left Germany behind as their journey South has begun. That is early.
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