10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2023

This federal tax immunity can deprive such governments of property tax revenues that would have been collected had the land been owned by any other entity. Of course, birders can support NWRs by buying federal duck stamps.

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District of Columbia Puerto Rico Wildlife Rhode Island 147

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2022

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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Costa Rica Nicaragua 2019 Farming 233

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Photographing the ducks flying overhead was a pretty quixotic enterprise. Even so, I could tell (just barely) that these were Mexican Ducks. Ruddy Ducks don’t care about a little rain. Black-bellied Plover on the left, collection of Peeps on the right. (I brightened up the other photos in this post — a lot!).

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Blackbirds Shelters Ducks Mexico 219

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Not long after the compilation gets underway starting with the order Anseriformes , we come to Aix sponsa and the compiler asks – hopefully – “Any Wood Ducks?” Now, Wood Ducks are somewhat uncommon in eastern New York in winter and after an inevitable few seconds of silence, some smirking wisecracker pipes up with “Do wooden duck counts?”

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2016 Ducks California Hunters 106

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Most of the ducks, including the usually more confiding Canvasbacks , were quite distant, but several Redhead had no problem cooperating for me and my digiscoping rig. That’s why they’re referred to as “diving ducks.” … Birds digiscoping diving ducks Queens Redhead World''s Fair Marina' What a bird!

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Ducks Collecting Birds 176

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2014

” The protagonist of this game is the Wood Duck, Aix sponsa and this adventure is called “Mallard Mayhem” There is more than one Woody in each picture and the challenge is to find as many as you can. competitions ducks Wood Duck' It’s called “Where’s Woody?”

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Snow Leopard Zoos Ducks Leopards 173

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2022

It’s the subject of the eleventh essay in this collection, almost smack in the middle of the 22 pieces that comprise the book. Her first birding book, When Birds are Near: Dispatches From Contemporary Writers (2020), is a smartly curated collection of essays from new and experienced writers.

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Birds Sparrows Connecticut New York 263

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 26, 2014

The Sunda Teal is a brown duck. This may make it very popular amongst European birders who can relate, but it doesn’t make it much of a deal within such an illustrous group as the dabbling ducks. Sunda Teals, showing a feeding behaviour called “collective suicide” while a Cave Swiftlet looks on.

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New York City Los Angeles Timor Indonesia 165

10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2022

However, the lockdown forces me to go deeper and deeper into my photo collection, if I want to write anything at all. You will not find the Australian Wood Duck in the HBW, as they prefer the name Maned Duck for it. And that seems to be the only vaguely satisfying thing left to do at the moment.

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Australia Birds Koalas Parrots 185

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2016

These ponds and the larger Cedar Lake and collection pond hold Tufted Duck , Greylag Goose and Eurasian Moorhen. Until the turn of the century, a wildfowl collection and extensive aviaries were kept at the castle. The exotics have now mostly been dispersed to other collections, but a few remain.

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Collecting South America Blackbirds Adoptable 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2018

There has been a steady increase of Plumed Whistling-Ducks , which now number in the thousands, and trying to find any other birds among them is quite problematic due to their large numbers. Having spent some time at the Barndarlmada Hut we continued to circumnavigate the fence to return to collect our vehicle.

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2018 Ducks Australia Collecting 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

It is also the best place to find Common Golden-eye, Lesser and Greater Scaup, Common Merganser, Ruddy Duck, American Wigeon, Ring-necked Duck and Bufflehead. The four most common gull species seen at Kutras Lake are Ring-billed, Herring, first-year Glaucous-winged, and California; less common are Western, Thayer’s, and Mew gulls.

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California Sacramento Breeding Turtles 160

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 16, 2021

Even though they saw a lot in a small area, the highest number of species found by an individual was 261 species identified by German Aguilar Vega, and the highest team total was 542 species collectively identified by the Jacanas Costa Rica, a group of more than 100 women birders who submitted lists from various parts of the country.

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Costa Rica Species 2020 Falcons 256

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Egyptian tomb painting depicting duck hunting in the marshes, from the eBook version of Birds and Us, © 2022, Tim Birkhead and Princeton University Press. There’s an intimacy to these stories, the memories connected to the telling of the histories, that’s appealing and a bit surprising.

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Dissection Birds Research Europe 218

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2018

The ranch’s ponds yielded several Ring-necked Ducks … large numbers of American Wigeon … several Bufflehead … and Pied-billed Grebes. There were Black Phoebes hawking insects around the ponds … Ruby-crowned Kinglets foraging in the trees… and a male Bushtit collecting nesting material.

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2018 Bald Eagle Woodpeckers Turkey 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2012

Known at the time as ‘ terms of venery’ , we know them today as collective nouns. One would display one’s credentials as a sporting gentleman by correct use of the terms and knowing that a flock of duck might be called a raft or a skein , depending on whether they were floating or flying, was essential.

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Hunting Collecting Groups Fox 151

10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2011

home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds / Bufflehead in Flight Bufflehead in Flight By Corey • March 13, 2011 • 8 comments Tweet Share Bufflehead are one of our most amusing ducks. Bufflehead are the smallest of North America’s diving ducks.

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2011 Ducks Deer New York 150

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2016

The English language, or at least the adherents thereof with more time on their hands than sense, has bestowed us a great number of names to collective nouns for groups of birds. English has not been similarly encumbered with frivolous names for young birds of specific types.

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New Zealand Parrots Rats Bats 104

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Owls and eagles and ducks and hummingbirds and parrots and woodpeckers are all things that a regular nonbirding joe or jane can, with time and a few color photographs, see the appeal of. As I had cause to observe last weekend, the great divide between birders and nonbirders is best expressed through gulls.

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Seals Lifestyle Turtles Parrots 220

10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2015

I’ve entered some old observations into the eBird, namely, the entire 1995 data from the confluence of the Sava and the Danube rivers, collected both from kayak (in almost every month of the year) and from the banks (in winter). Somehow, in March I’ve done more eBirding than proper birding. It was a lot of work and – it does not show!

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Serbia ALA Protection Collecting 211

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Flight Maps was a collection of essays about the interactions between culture and nature in the U.S., It was outsold by their other major plastic lawn ornament, a duck. The duck was based on live models, but the flamingo had to be drawn from photographs, since Union Products was based in Massachusetts.

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Cuba Miami Massachusetts Ducks 142

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 23, 2013

The most obvious place that cryptozoology and ornithology overlap is in the area of Lazarus taxa and would-be Lazarus taxa — the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, Eskimo Curlew, Pink-headed Duck , and the like — birds that no one doubts existed once, whether or not they exist today. Come on — obviously Photoshopped!

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Apes Birds Woodpeckers Primates 160

10,000 Birds

MAY 21, 2013

So if you come to Spring Wings, and you’d be well served if you do, get ready to see lots and lots of shorebirds and ducks and waders. Wilson’s Phalaropes did their crazy spinning thing, to our collective amusement. (The town is actually nicknamed “The Oasis of Nevada.”)

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Nevada Birds Barn Owls Cows 170

10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2012

The park even features a Welcome Back Waterfowl day when the community is encouraged to come out and learn about the ducks, geese, and swans that visit the valley – an event that usually occurs in early April but this year took place on March 24. As a result, early migration season is an excellent time to visit.

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Wildlife Montana Geese Bald Eagle 167

10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2016

Like the red in Red-bellied Woodpecker and the ring in Ring-necked Duck , this part of the Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet’s name describes a feature that is not obvious to the casual observer or from a great distance. The Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet itself was the Northern Beardless Flycatcher until the early 1980s. Next: Beardless.

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Costa Rica 2014 Family Collecting 102

10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2020

When you review the system, it makes perfect sense: falcons are placed with hawks, nightjars are next to owls, and grebes are close to ducks, rather than separated from them by quail and grouse. I did catch a minor error in the page number references for Lesser Scaup and Ring-necked Duck, which will hopefully be corrected in future printings.)

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North America America Hawaii Birds 207

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

By collecting data and following individual birds it is possible to provide data to both governments and environmental groups to help protect the habitat both here and overseas into the future. I really can not compete with Corey and all his great photos of ducks , so here is a photo of my favourite duck door stop! I am a man.

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2011 Australia Deer China 150

10,000 Birds

MAY 13, 2012

They are extremely good at flying low and collecting fish from just below the surface, but the shorebirds still feel threatened by them and they do sometimes take them. Our wide expanses of water will soon become smaller and the ducks will return!

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Fish Breeding Shelters Collecting 173

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 20, 2012

map-shaped board towards various hot spots like Cape May and the Aleutian Islands, where you can then collect points for rarities. The rules seem a bit complex at first, but the basic gist is that you watch videos of birds, identify them, and correct ids earn you moves around the U.S.

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Game Birds Puffins Owls 177

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

I’ll be the first to admit the selection of ducks so far at Booze and Birds has been rather paltry. Stumpy Duck is an American pale ale by Trillium Brewing Company of Boston, Massachusetts, one of the most popular breweries in New England for the past few years. Trillium Brewing Company: Stumpy Duck American Pale Ale.

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Ducks Houston Boston Fowl 103

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

The island is something of a sometimes island, a collection of rocks with a smattering of houses that is sometimes an island among the sandy expanses of the silted up estuary and sometimes actually an island in the Irish Sea. One of my favourite walks when I visit my parents in England is the walk out to Hilbre in the Dee Estuary.

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Geese Seals Shelters Collecting 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 19, 2011

I’m not sure what the collective noun for a group of petrels is, but the vets and wildlife carers of New Zealand might be forgiven for thinking that it might be a wreck after this week. Then, after a well deserved cup of tea we boxed up all the guys that were able to be released and sent them on their way.

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New Zealand Vet Collecting Geese 187

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

“Purple Martins&# first appeared in print in Carl Sandburg’s 1920 collection of poems, Smoke and Steel , published six years after he rose to prominence following the publication of some of his poems in the famed Poetry magazine. What does “Purple Martins&# say to you? … a.

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Chicago Geese Horses Agenda 181

10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2020

But, I think most would agree that driving a mile to walk at the local park and seeing ducks on the pond does not a birder make. Individually, all the indirect measures that follow are imperfect, but collectively they provide some insight.

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2016 North America 2020 2019 261

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

It was therefore an absolute thrill when I heard the news that biologists from The Peregrine Fund, whilst surveying for endangered Madagascar Harriers in November 2006, had discovered a small population of these diving ducks at a very remote crater lake 330km north of Lake Aloatra!

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Madagascar Lemurs 2006 Owls 237

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2016

But driving a mile to walk at the local park and seeing ducks on the pond does not a birder make. Individually, all of the indirect measures that follow are imperfect, but collectively they provide some insight. Note that the FWS birding report is an addendum to a larger survey not directed to birding.

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Wildlife Portland 2002 Collecting 170

10,000 Birds

JUNE 24, 2012

But I’m not talking about owling, or listening for rails, or even pointing a microphone skyward to collect flight calls of migrants. The next day, I was looking at a pair of the same handsome ducks in Arctic Bay, last night there were four in my patch. We’re about 3 days past midway through three months of 24 hour sun.

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Bald Eagle Breeding Raised Whales 171