10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Here in Suffolk we now have impressive wintering flocks of Barnacle Geese, often numbering 1000 birds or more. The purist birders take little interest in them, regarding them as no more interesting, or exciting, than the flocks of Canada Geese that have long been established in the county.

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Netherlands Geese Birds Denmark 244

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 17, 2019

A Great Egret , a few Pygmy Cormorants and, by the middle of the Danube, about a hundred Greylag Geese. Two hundred yards further, the first Common Goldeneye and Smew started to appear and, while counting Smew and geese, a Great Bittern took flight from one stand of reeds to another, right in front of us.

Geese 180

Geese Serbia Birds Estonia 180

10,000 Birds

MAY 16, 2011

Mallards , of course, bring new meaning to the term dabbling duck , what with all those wild mallard hybrids and domestic cross-breeds running around. The more I learn about ducks, the more impressed I am with their blatant promiscuity. But apparently, all the Anas -species ducks are overly amorous or at least indiscriminate.

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Ducks North America Denmark America 251