10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2014

New Zealand had, once upon a time, some fairly spectacular game birds, including massive flightless geese, massive flightles rails, and really enormous moa. New Zealand had a widespread dabbling duck, the Grey Duck ( Pacific Black Duck if you’re an Aussie) but these were declining a in number because of changes to their habitat.

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Species New Zealand Ducks Game 166

10,000 Birds

APRIL 9, 2017

Not only have the birds arrived from other areas of Australia to breed, but many other creatures have been visible for those of us that are prepared to go bush-walking in extreme heat. The birds gathered along the main highway during the worst of the floods and Magpie Geese arrived and bred in large numbers. Native flying fox.

Geese 100

Geese Birds Fox Ducks 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 28, 2023

The whole area has been a breeding ground for many species and depending on the time of day you can expect a wide variety of species. Birds on the move after sunset The numbers of Glossy Ibis continue to increase right beside the highway and they have no doubt bred in the area over recent months.

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Geese Birds Ducks Rights 130

10,000 Birds

MAY 22, 2022

This will change over time of course and once it rains again you would need to consider if you had the right vehicle to access the area. Dragonflies photobombing on the right as we approach. You have to look carefully, because often there are Australasian Grebes and Green Pygmy-Geese amongst the ducks and lilies.

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Geese Ducks Breeding 2015 196

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

Brown Pelicans , and the northernmost Brown Booby breeding colony on this side of the Pacific. 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. Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella.

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2011 Pelicans Papua New Guinea Birds 152

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Kirtland’s Warbler is a classic niche species; they breed in only very specific conditions, which occur in only a very specific area. this species breeds. Fortunately, there were still a handful of immature birds alive at sea, and a few years later they were back on Toroshima breeding again.

Albatross 204

Albatross Endangered Species Geese Alaska 204

10,000 Birds

JUNE 25, 2017

The most common member of the Grebe species around Broome is the Australasian Grebe- Tachybaptus novaehollandiae and it has taken advantage of our exceptionally good Wet Season early this year and has been breeding very successfully. During breeding season the Australasian Grebe has a very distinct pale yellow patch at the base of the bill.

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Breeding Geese Ducks Eggs 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 21, 2023

With the extent of the tall vegetation many species have been able to breed and hide for many months and now they are becoming more visible from the highway. White-necked Heron The Great Egrets , Intermediate Egrets and Little Egrets continue to feed right against the edge of the highway oblivious to the traffic.

Australia 147

Australia Fish Pelicans Geese 147

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2016

Or, a Tufted Duck or Cackling Goose. Ducks, swans, and geese may initially appear easy to identify. A minor item, but I like to get these things right.) Plate 29, Mallard and Mexican Duck. Probably a duck calendar and a map of migratory routes would help. Plate 37, Eurasian, Green-winged, and Baikal Teal.

North America 149

North America Asia Europe America 149

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 9, 2018

Marlgu Billabong looking right from the shelter. There were numerous Magpie Geese and Wandering Whistling-Ducks on the bank with Yellow Chats running among them to drink. Magpie Geese and Wandering Whistling-Ducks. Once the rains come the land will flood and there will no longer be a billabong, but a floodplain.

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Shelters Geese 2018 Ducks 114

10,000 Birds

JUNE 8, 2017

Shallows provide an ideal spawning ground for almost 50 fish species and submerged islands breeding ground for more than 100 bird species. 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! We observed some 15 birds here.

Romania 120

Romania Serbia Turtles Blackbirds 120

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2017

bought the rights to Noah Webster’s famous American Dictionary of the English Language , though it later lost exclusive rights to the “Webster” name.). 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.

Albatross 104

Albatross Bears Ducks Bald Eagle 104

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

They reach breeding maturity at four to seven years of age, produce only one chick per nesting season, and only one in three offspring survive to fledging age. Ohio has tracked two families of their state-endangered breeding sandhill cranes and found them to have wintered over in Tennessee in 2010. Isn’t that neat?

2011 245

2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 245

10,000 Birds

APRIL 27, 2014

There are excellent birding opportunities along the highway throughout the year and the area still remains flooded from the rains over our Wet Season and it has been a breeding site for several species of birds. An Intermediate Egret was busy feeding right beside the highway as we moved slowly by. Glossy Ibis. Intermediate Egret.

Birds 165

Birds Geese Falcons 2014 165

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 2, 2014

One lake has had a lone Australian Pelican in for several weeks and in the last few weeks there has been the arrival of Magpie Geese and numerous Radjah Shelducks. There are also Pacific Black Ducks present throughout the lakes. Australasian Darter and Green Pygmy-geese. Australian Pelican. Striated Heron -rufous morph.

Geese 154

Geese Pelicans Sanctuary Asia 154

10,000 Birds

APRIL 24, 2012

As the reigning birder of the world, I feel it is only right to look a little deeper into the lives of birds here, and talk about something beyond the mundane nuances of plumage variations of freshly-molted Empidonax flycatchers and if migrant Warbling Vireos arrived 3 days earlier this year than last. Photo courtesy of Redgannet.

Albatross 192

Albatross Birds Lifestyle Raised 192

10,000 Birds

MAY 2, 2016

We immediately headed to an undisclosed location where Carlos had breeding Mangrove Cuckoos staked out. Sure, it was a lifer and an unexpected one because most of the hawks have moved further north to breed by late April but Carlos did nothing to ensure that it stuck around for better looks. He was right! Only one cuckoo?

Florida 118

Florida Miami Birds Owls 118

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 18, 2012

This striking black and white bird is a common sight in the city, even in the central business district, but it is especially common in the park and breeds on the islands in the lakes here. The large ponds were home to great numbers of waterbirds of several kinds, many of which, like the ibis, breed on the islands in the lakes.

New Zealand 171

New Zealand Ducks Australia Japan 171

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2011

Outside of the breeding season a few birds may join together in a loose flock if the feeding is good. • 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 Wicked, right? Take a look at the link below.

2011 181

2011 India Deer New York 181

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 5, 2017

To be fair, I could and should have also grabbed The Shorebird Guide for the Greenshank and Collin’s Bird Guide, 2nd edition for both birds, but the Nat Geo was right there next to me, where your favorite field guides should be.). There are also two-page comparative spreads of ducks, shorebirds, gulls, and hawks in flight.

North America 183

North America America 2017 Birds 183

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 6, 2020

and plumage terms such as “breeding” and “nonbreeding” have been replaced with “spring/summer” and “fall/winter.” ” In 2010, Surf Scoter is introduced as the “skunkhead-duck”; in 2020, it is “Medium-sized, the most common scoter along Atlantic Coast.”

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North America America 2020 Hawaii 226

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2021

The holidays started early this year, with the first night of Hannukah coming right at the end of Thanksgiving weekend! And similarly with 99 other birds — raptors, songbirds, ducks, and otherwise. We review what the publishers, distillers, or manufacturers send us, or what catches our collective eye, or what we have time for.

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Birds Colombia Collecting Bald Eagle 242

10,000 Birds

JUNE 8, 2024

The word “boreal” got hijacked by one of the Dutch extreme-right parties as a supremacist euphemism – obviously without understanding what the term really means. A variety of species of geese, ducks and swans swim on the lake while the woods and reeds have every warbler imaginable. It’s full of waders, ducks and geese.

Sweden 130

Sweden Geese Portugal Minnesota 130

10,000 Birds

APRIL 19, 2012

And, in a tree off to the right in that direction, I noticed a mass of stuff that resembled a Bald Eagle’s nest as much as any mass of stuff ever could, but of course, it was not a bald eagle nest. I live near a highway. All winter, I almost never went west on that road, only east, but a couple of times I did go west.

Eagles 175

Eagles Bald Eagle Coyotes Mississippi 175

10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2014

In Sibley Two, the in-flight images literally fly across the page in slight diagonals, with the full-bodied images are presented below in a parallel order (meaning we see the same bird–fresh juvenile, worn juvenile, 1st year, Adult breeding, Adult nonbreeding–in the same part of the page for each species).

North America 237

North America Birds Species America 237

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The Crossley ID Guide: Waterfowl covers every residential, migrating, vagrant, exotic, and introduced swan, goose, dabbling and diving duck in North America (Canada and the United States): 62 Species Accounts on four swan species and one vagrant subspecies; 15 goose species; 46 duck species; plus accounts for hybrid geese, ducks and exotics.

Ducks 118

Ducks North America Geese Hunters 118