10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 24, 2020
But the strangest bird was a duck, one that I have never seen before, that does not even inhabit Europe (apart from feral birds), and yet, somehow strangely familiar (probably not that much of a surprise after a lifetime of snooping through field guides). So I watched an unknown duck now, quite bright, clearly a male.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 4, 2020
White-faced Whistling-Duck – Dendrocygna viduata. Black-bellied Whistling-Duck – Dendrocygna autumnalis. Muscovy Duck – Cairina moschata. Wood Duck – Aix sponsa. Mandarin Duck – Aix galericulata. African Black Duck – Anas sparsa. Yellow-billed Duck – Anas undulata.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 7, 2020
The eggs are Peregrine Falcon eggs, stolen from aeries in Wales, though Lendrum keeps insisting they’re duck eggs. And, some background on those laws, both in the United Kingdom and the United States. Back to Lendrum–McWilliam interviews him. McWilliam realizes he’s dealing someone special, a career falcon egg-thief.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 1, 2017
Unless those non-birding folks happen to be duck hunters or love to go fishing, they tend to stay away from the marshes, the riparian zones, the bottom lands. The first harbored a bunch of shorebirds including Pectoral and Silt Sandpipers along with various waders, Limpkins , a couple of distant Snail Kites , and some ducks.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 24, 2011
A glorious black monstrous male, he pecked at a berry with his ivory-white beak then turned and ducked back behind cover. In Chile I got the best view of an Andean Condor of the entire trip while having a cheeky poo under a monkey puzzle pine on the side of a volcano. It was over before I’d even finished.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 2, 2019
A gathering of the beats at the “Hot Duck” barbeque. Plumed Whistling-Duck – Dendrocygna eytoni. White-faced Whistling-Duck – Dendrocygna viduata. Black-bellied Whistling-Duck – Dendrocygna autumnalis. Fulvous Whistling-Duck – Dendrocygna bicolor. Wood Duck – Aix sponsa.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 2, 2019
Plumed Whistling-Duck – Dendrocygna eytoni. White-faced Whistling-Duck – Dendrocygna viduata. Black-bellied Whistling-Duck – Dendrocygna autumnalis. Fulvous Whistling-Duck – Dendrocygna bicolor. Wandering Whistling-Duck – Dendrocygna arcuata. Muscovy Duck – Cairina moschata.
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