10,000 Birds
APRIL 5, 2022
Less and Gilroy sort through the exogenous (external) and endogenous (internal) factors thought to cause vagrancy and the scientific experiments that have sought to prove their significance with patience and plain language as well as charts and photographs. Next time, I’ll know why. It’s not always easy reading.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 26, 2024
A first-winter Red-breasted Goose at Cley, North Norfolk As a general rule, geese are birds of subtle, even dull, plumage. All the so-called grey geese – Greylag, Bean, White-front, Lesser White-front, Swan – look very much alike, and it takes experience to identify them by their calls and their shape and size.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 23, 2012
Once upon a time, people and especially children felt free to interact with wild birds in any way that would satisfy their curiousity — watching and learning, yes, but also harassing and chasing, collecting eggs and nests, stealing nestlings as “pets”, and killing birds for amateur taxidermy efforts.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 4, 2014
The star of such huge concentrations is the massive Jabiru , towering over a diverse collection of South American waterbirds such as Sunbittern , Plumbeous Ibis , and Southern Screamer. The incredible lighting at dawn in the Pantanal is an experience in of itself. Screamers are most closely related to waterfowl such as ducks and geese.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 4, 2013
While at Jones Beach State Park on Saturday, co-leading the digiscoping field trip (with Clay Taylor from Swarovski Optik ), I had a couple of experiences that made me wonder exactly how it is that birders find birds. The bar was covered with shorebirds, gulls, geese, and cormorants. Was it out in the open the whole time?
10,000 Birds
JUNE 17, 2015
The Refuge has also become a place where people can experience and learn about wildlife and the places they call home, whether through self-guided discovery or by participating in one of our many educational programs. Finley National Wildlife Refuge’s primary management goal is to provide wintering habitat for dusky Canada geese.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 6, 2016
This is the story of Fox’s experiences on board the Achiever, the research vessel of the Raincoast Conservation Foundation. The Achiever’s survey voyages took place from 2005 to 2008; the goal was to collect baseline data on sea mammals and marine birds. Northern Fulmar, image courtesy of Peter Hodum.
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