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White-winged Black Terns and Whiskered Terns near Broome

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The cattle moved away from the flooded areas and the area beside the highway is home to many species of birds. Terns roosting and Pacific Black Ducks There has been ample food for the Terns and other bird species for many months now. The Terns take advantage of the barbed wire fence along the edge of Roebuck Plains as a roost.

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A World Turned Upside Down

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After all, on a normal year this body of water only offers a good number of American Coots , a handful of hybrid, semi-domestic ducks, a few Pied-billed Grebes, Cattle, Snowy and Great Egrets, a Great Blue Hero n or two, and perhaps a few Spotted Sandpipers and Killdeer. Gadwalls flew overhead The Canvasbacks stayed on the water.

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CBC in Paradise

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The usual ducks were also present – Black-bellied Whistling Duck and White-cheeked Pintail. Both of these are dabbling ducks while the scaups are divers. Checking some of the other ponds revealed more ducks, namely a group of ten Blue-winged Teal and a staggering number of Black-bellied Whistling Ducks.

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Hawking for Nighthawks

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Scores of Black-bellied Whistling Ducks circled overhead, these vocal ducks are often hunted illegally here so it was refreshing to see so many. Black-bellied Whistling Ducks in the aftermath of the “storm” Hoping for different fortunes at a different time of day, we stayed until darkness enveloped us but still, nothing.

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Racking up the numbers

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Our three summer Duck species, Mexican, Ruddy, and Fulvous Whistling-Duck , expand to as many as thirteen species. And while all three of our common Egrets ( Great , Snowy , and Cattle ) are to be seen everywhere you look, only the American White Pelicans are as common as the Shovelers and Pintails. How many were there?

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Rancho Naturalista Lodge, Costa Rica, or in the Land of Coffee and Chocolate

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Black-bellied Whistling-Ducks , Muscovy Ducks and Blue-winged Teals were around us, together with Green , Great and Little Blue Herons , Cattle and Great White Egrets , Black-crowned and Yellow-crowned Night-Herons , plus one locally rare Pinnated Bittern in the floating vegetation, as well as several dozen Neotropical Cormorants.

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A Gathering at Colusa National Wildlife Refuge

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I was pleasantly surprised to see that Colusa NWR was beginning to fill its impoundments during this drought, and there were quite a few ducks and geese present. There were not only Cattle Egrets and Great Egrets ( Ardea alba ) but Snowy Egrets ( Egretta thula ) as well. Click on photos for full sized images.

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