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MARCH 12, 2017

Magpie-larks have been busy at all of the muddy puddles in recent months collecting mud to make their nests. Whilst enjoying the Magpie Geese breeding around Broome recently we also noticed a Magpie-lark nest close to the highway in one of the very few trees beside the road. Magpie-lark nest on the left of the tree.

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Breeding Australia Collecting Geese 100

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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. Dip and get away From loops into slip-knots, Write your own ciphers and figure eights.

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Chicago Geese Horses Agenda 189

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FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Ottenby Nature Reserve is run by The Swedish Ornithological Society and visitors can observe researchers collecting data and birds being caught in the mist nest and funnel traps on site. Barnacle Geese and their downy-grey cygnets were everywhere, grazing alongside picnickers and sunbathers. How could Norway top this?

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Sweden Denmark Geese Birds 168

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MARCH 8, 2017

But within the National Wildlife Refuge System is a frequently overlooked collection of properties burdened by a mundane name: Waterfowl Production Areas (WPAs). WPAs provide critical breeding, resting, and nesting habitat for millions of ducks, geese, and swans, as well as shorebirds and grassland birds. Ding” Darling NWR in Florida.

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Factory Ducks North Dakota Nebraska 118

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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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Bulgaria Geese Romania Estonia 130

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MARCH 8, 2018

Lema Ranch has several ponds and is always a great spot for waterfowl but I was surprised to find four Snow Geese on secluded pond! 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

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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. A second pond held not only more of the same, but some American Coots and Canada Geese.

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Wildlife Montana Geese Bald Eagle 171

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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. One website I found suggested a few others that may be true but I hadn’t encountered before, are young cranes actually called colts, or falcons eyas?

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New Zealand Parrots Rats Bats 106

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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.

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Montana Geese Blackbirds Canada 166

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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 191

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JANUARY 27, 2016

I didn’t have long to stay at the reserve so I did a quick walk through the ornamental pools near the entrance – as in many WWT reserves these are given over to the breeding collections of exotic species (although these are smaller in London than elsewhere.

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Geese New Zealand Germany Ducks 100

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NOVEMBER 13, 2018

I was also notified of a study of Brant behavior that is being done collectively by wildlife agencies from New Jersey, New York, and Canada. When recovered, it can be used to figure out where the goose has been. By reporting the banded goose I gave one more data point to to this scientific effort.

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New Jersey New York Science Canada 118

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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. Screamers are most closely related to waterfowl such as ducks and geese. Crossing them was like taking a leap of faith each time.

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Brazil Birds Blackbirds Paraguay 165

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FEBRUARY 23, 2013

These aggressive, boisterous yet attractive geese have begun building a population in Florida from a few accidental escapes from waterfowl collections (Crandon Gardens in Miami-Dade being the most famous).

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Florida Miami Bolivia Parrots 206

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NOVEMBER 4, 2013

The bar was covered with shorebirds, gulls, geese, and cormorants. When Lisa found that golden-plover on the sand bar we had all, collectively, gone through those birds probably five times. The first was when we were in the digiscoping trip proper. She gave me a peak through her scope and, sure enough, the bird was different.

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New York Birds Sparrows Geese 169

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AUGUST 17, 2017

At first I dismissed them for some hybrid geese, until I recognized their JIZZ. There was a Short-toed Eagle ahead, taking flight to be replaced by another ST Eagle. These two were only the first of several I saw. In a shallow pond, there were three young Common Shelducks. This year, we had about 65 dead pelicans.

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Greece Killing Pelicans Eagles 198

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FEBRUARY 26, 2017

It is always hard to grasp the actual size of a bird until you literally have it in your hand and we collected the specimen and gave it to the Spurn Bird Observatory for their records. Following the drizzly and windy weather we ventured out along the coastal path and sadly came across a recently deceased Meadow Pipit.

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Blackbirds 2016 2013 Sparrows 100

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JANUARY 7, 2013

A rundown of my year is below, broken down into the integral parts which, collectively, allowed me to see what I saw. Whether it was hawks , terns , seabirds , wood-warblers , shorebirds , geese , falcons , finches , or songbirds and woodpeckers I was there with my camera. But how did I see so many species this year?

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2012 Czech Republic Hedgehogs Hungary 145

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FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The Winter Gull Survey (WinGS) will run over the winters of 2023/24 and 2024/25 to collect updated information on the numbers and distributions of these wintering gulls in the UK, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. Not really a hardship, but it made the count less enjoyable. I arrived, equipped with my telescope, long before dusk.

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Ireland Turtles Geese Farming 231

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JUNE 17, 2015

Finley National Wildlife Refuge’s primary management goal is to provide wintering habitat for dusky Canada geese. The only answer I can come up with is that they collect fees from those users and view them as their only source of revenue. Finley National Wildlife Refuge : Expand big game hunting. Established in 1964, the William L.

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Fish Wildlife Hunting Game 145

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

The Achiever’s survey voyages took place from 2005 to 2008; the goal was to collect baseline data on sea mammals and marine birds. Here is her description of migrating Snow Geese: I’d seen snow geese at great distances offshore or far overhead, but here they are passing me by, low on the water, where the wind speed is lessened.

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Fox Albatross Geese Bald Eagle 100

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OCTOBER 18, 2016

66 million years ago, and one of those groups gave rise to the ducks and geese. In his remarks, O’Conner says something very interesting: “I suspect that there are additional examples of this seemingly avian-specific structure already in museum collections around the globe.”. That is a fair thing to say about any find like this.

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Groups Collecting Primates Bats 171

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Stumpy Duck is part of Trillium’s Small Bird Series, a collection of lighter, lower-alcohol beers brewed for summer, with each can sparingly decorated with a different bird in miniature. Not exactly a small bird.

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Ducks Houston Boston Fowl 105

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APRIL 27, 2014

There are Australasian Grebes, Wandering Whistling-Ducks, Pacific Black Ducks and Little Black Cormorants present and also Magpie Geese. Magpie Geese are not always present in the Broome area, but this year good numbers came and they also bred in this area to the south of Broome.

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Birds Geese Falcons 2014 165

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APRIL 22, 2011

We stayed at the Yellow Bay Biological Research Station, a cozy collection of buildings located, logically enough, on a slope overlooking a bay lined with yellow sandstone on the eastern shore of the lake. Migrants, alas, were not yet much in evidence aside from the Canada Geese (mild climate my foot.)

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ALA Bald Eagle Mules Turkey 161

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2013

We returned to Lake Argyle before heading into town and the male Great Bowerbirds still had a bower in a very similar spot to last year with a similar collection of rocks and bones. They were collecting it and carrying it away for nesting under the culverts. Fairy Martin collecting mud. Bower at Lake Argyle.

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Birds Collecting Seals Cattle 145

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Plus other Diving Ducks and Dabbling Ducks, as well as Swans, Geese, Cormorants and Anhingas, Loons, a couple of Grebes, Alcids (this is where my heart starts to go pit-a-pat), Tubenoses (love that term), one species of Frigatebird, a Gannet and two Boobies, Pelicans, Skuas and Jaegers (more pit-a-patting), Gulls, Black Skimmer, and Terns.

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Ducks Groups Species North America 240

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MARCH 25, 2012

Black Swans -by George Domestic Geese and Australian White Ibis -by George As you can see…the geese were about the same height as George! This is a car he found whilst birding and this is a photo that he took of it to add to his collection! He wasn’t scared!

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Birds Geese 2012 Collecting 204

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DECEMBER 22, 2016

The Lesser White-fronted Goose is not only rare in Serbia, but also overlooked among numerous Greater White-fronted Geese. point to just one problem source, one over-abundant and highly invasive species – Homo sapiens. Lesser White-fronted Goose Anser eruthtropus. I dipped it once before and only this autumn found them in Greece.

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Serbia Greece Montenegro Bulgaria 203

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OCTOBER 9, 2018

Collectively, ANILCA set aside approximately 100 million acres, including millions of acres that were designated as “ wilderness ,” the most protective of federal designations. (The Cornell Lab of Ornithology has an excellent video about Yukon Delta NWR here.)

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Alaska United States Puffins Wildlife 221

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AUGUST 5, 2014

A History of Birdwatching in 100 Objects uses stuff, redefined as ‘objects’, a term that gives an archival sheen to everyday items, to tell our collective history. I expected a picture book; I got a collection of essays! 32, 1887) and Egg collection (no. There are many unexpected goodies here.

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Mauritius Collecting Egypt Cyprus 173

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DECEMBER 4, 2021

We review what the publishers, distillers, or manufacturers send us, or what catches our collective eye, or what we have time for. Here are the picks of the 10,000 Birds reviewing team (Tristan, Donna, Dragan, Mike, Corey, Carrie, and Mark) for 2021 bird books and other things with high quality, uniqueness, and giftability. * Donna). ==.

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Birds Colombia Collecting Bald Eagle 246

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MARCH 1, 2019

There had been works on falconry before Frederick’s time: treatises on falconry date back to the 10 th century in Europe, and King Harold of England (of Battle of Hastings fame) reputedly owned the largest collection of volumes devoted to the subject in all of Europe. Could this be the first “accipiter sp.”

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2015 Italy Falcons Europe 113

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APRIL 1, 2014

I am also writing it on the tails of an excellent review by Corey who, although he termed his post a collection of “impressions,” really did nail down the great content of The Sibley Guide to Birds, Second Edition , by David Allen Sibley, as well as the minor items that need to be improved. Again, access is important.

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North America Birds Species America 247

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NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The Crossley ID Guide: Waterfowl covers every residential, migrating, vagrant, exotic, and introduced swan, goose, dabbling and diving duck in North America (Canada and the United States): 62 Species Accounts on four swan species and one vagrant subspecies; 15 goose species; 46 duck species; plus accounts for hybrid geese, ducks and exotics.

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Ducks North America Geese Hunters 124