10,000 Birds

MAY 14, 2013

The most famous of these is Cattle Egret , but Masked Duck looked like it might make things interesting for a while and Antillean Nighthawk has more or less staked out a little niche for itself in extreme southern Florida. as luck would have it, my golfing father and brother-in-law were heading that way in the morning.

Cattle 159

Cattle South America Florida Colorado 159

10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2014

To avoid the predator, the duck – dived, and that was the only time ever to observe this species doing so. All dabbling ducks can dive, but rarely do. The Kozara route (7.8mi, top) and the Veliko Ratno Island circumnavigation route (4.3mi, left; source: Google Earth ). I have not received any answer so far.

Serbia 245

Serbia Stray Dog Protection Botswana 245

10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2011

It didn’t take much imagination to name Cowbirds or Cattle Egrets or Cattle Tyrants , but there’s more fantasy, even more wit, involved in the naming of other bovine birds. The genus Bucephala includes three familiar ducks with big heads. Following a detour to Harvard Law School, he took the Ph.D.

Cows 143

Cows Cattle 2011 Birds 143

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

It is also a month when the Law of Diminishing Returns over-took itself. Yellow-billed Duck – Anas undulata. Red-billed Duck – Anas erythrorhyncha. Knob-billed Duck – Sarkidiornis melanotos. Indian Spot-billed Duck – Anas poecilorhyncha. Freckled Duck – Stictonetta naevosa.

2018 113

2018 Australia Woodpeckers Los Angeles 113

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 3, 2018

A line plotted against the law of diminishing returns describes an increasingly downward curve and a lister’s life is destined to follow that decline. Plumed Whistling-Duck – Dendrocygna eytoni. Black-bellied Whistling-Duck – Dendrocygna autumnalis. Fulvous Whistling-Duck – Dendrocygna bicolor.

2018 100

2018 Australia Los Angeles Sacramento 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2016

The law of diminishing returns brings the inevitability of repeat sightings and has checked the momentum of the combined beats’ list for June. Blue-billed Duck – Oxyura australis. Musk Duck – Biziura lobata. Maned Duck – Chenonetta jubata. Cattle Tyrant – Machetornis rixosa. 22 May 2016.

2016 100

2016 Sanctuary Ghana Australia 100