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Trillium Brewing Company: Stumpy Duck American Pale Ale

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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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WPAs: America’s Duck Factories

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Ding” Darling NWR in Florida. But within the National Wildlife Refuge System is a frequently overlooked collection of properties burdened by a mundane name: Waterfowl Production Areas (WPAs). The region has justifiably been referred to as the “Duck Factory of North America.” What are WPAs and why should birders care about them?

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A New Year Begins! But First–A Celebration of My 2018 Top Ten Birds

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Mandarin Duck, Central Park, NYS. It is very possible that Mike and Corey will penalize me for including the Mandarin Duck–also known as the “Hot Duck,” “Mandy” only to tourists and the Gothamist–in this list, but its celebrity cannot be ignored. Everybody wants to know about the Hot Duck. An eBird mystery.

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The Sunda Teals of Jakarta

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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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Peterson Field Guide to North American Bird Nests: A Field Guide Review

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This may have been partly a leftover from the Victorian fascination with egg collecting (the infamous passion known as oology), but probably more from people’s burgeoning interest in the nests and eggs found in their gardens and fields, gateway artifacts to a newer hobby called birdwatching.

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But What Do Flamingos Mean?

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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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My Year in Birding 2012

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A rundown of my year is below, broken down into the integral parts which, collectively, allowed me to see what I saw. January – Starting Off and Florida. I went to the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival in Titusville, Florida. Florida Scrub Jay ? Mottled Duck ? January 2012 started off with a bang.

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