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Male Ruddy Ducks Oxyura jamaicensis in Basic Plumage

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It won’t be long before the drake Ruddy Ducks are all in their breeding finery and doing their displays for the females so I thought I would take the time this past weekend to try to get some decent shots of the males that are still in basic plumage. Jochen Mar 17th, 2011 at 11:11 am To me, they’ll always be the Rubbery Ducks.

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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. Now, for comparison’s sake, New York City has around 8 million people on 800 square kilometres, or 10,000 / km².

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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. ” [[link].

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Good Birders Still Don’t Wear White: A Book Review

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3) It is a sequel to Good Birders Don’t Wear White: 50 Tips From North America’s Top Birders , the popular 2007 collection of essays. Dorian Anderson finds a moment of connection with a duck hunter during his bicycle big year, and, despite his distaste for the sport, realizes that in hunters we have allies for conservation.

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Tree Swallows Return, It Must Be Spring

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• Explore These Related Posts March by Goethe Stalking a Kiwi Icon Polygynandry and the Alpine Accentor Duck Migration Finally Saw-Whet.Or Winter Hits New York City Desert Finch in Arkansas (!?!?!) These Blasts From The Past First Robin of Spring Yard Birds in Saugerties Handling Birds: Yea or Nay?

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