10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2021

The survey also sought to identify “the key attributes important to birding experiences” and learn more about “decisions to participate in birdwatching and level of identity as birdwatcher.”. Birders seem to be a fairly modest group: “Respondents rated themselves as somewhat skilled in identifying birds.

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Minnesota Research Pennsylvania Ohio 264

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2019

In other words, eBird is effectively a complete history of my birding experiences. For me, there was the Limpkin in Loxahatchee NWR in Florida, the Atlantic Puffin at Petit Manan NWR in Maine, the Falcated Duck at Colusa NWR in California. Naturally, a walk through one’s life lists triggers memories. GPS-tracked miles.

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Puerto Rico Virgin Islands Michigan Washington 143

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

I was pleasantly surprised to see that Colusa NWR was beginning to fill its impoundments during this drought, and there were quite a few ducks and geese present. This incredible group of birds foraging in this wetland created an amazing jumble of sound. This one has a small tidbit held in the very tip of its beak.

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Wildlife San Francisco Sacramento North Dakota 158

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2022

Thank you, goddess of birding luck and text group people).* The book is richly illustrated with contributions from a group of birders/photographers who were fortunate to see and document many of the vagrants covered. It’s not always easy reading. The two men have co-authored several previous articles on avian vagrancy.

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Birds Compassion Eagles Science 255

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

I observe them, but feel I still lack experience to tell with certainty the SEO from LEO in flight. Back in November, one group of British birders visited Serbia and, as one of them later wrote in his blog, their local guide promised them the GGS – “That one is guaranteed“, the guide declared. ‘He Long-eared Owls are irresistibly cute.

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Serbia Owls Rodents Eagles 234

10,000 Birds

MAY 28, 2015

And, of course, there was a group of youngsters barbecuing. After that experience, I stopped complaining about their hides, realising that they are as good as they ever will be. More or less, a proper picnic site. Both benches were turned towards the table, hence one had its back towards the reserve! They got the message right.

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Serbia Birds Spain Hungary 236

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. Speaking of hawks, two talented and extremely knowledgeable falconers, Marie Gaspari Crawford and Chloe Bowen, shared with us their birds and their experiences. Don’t try this at home, kids.

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Nevada Birds Barn Owls Cows 164

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Audubon Associate Naturalist, have led this tour many times, through tornados, droughts, questionable restaurants, and, sadly, the advent of fracking, and every one of my friends who has participated over the years has raved about the experience and the birds (in fact, one member of our group was on his third or fourth trip, I lost count).

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North Dakota Birds Sparrows Blackbirds 134

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Peraza of Xukpi Tours, led our group along the cleverly-designed eco trail that crosses many parts of the campus. We missed the snakebird but had no problems seeing Black-bellied Whistling Duck , Least Grebe , Northern Jacana , Green Heron , Neotropic Cormorant , and both Amazon and G reen Kingfisher. ECO-SENDERO. DRY FOREST.

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Honduras Birds Kentucky Research 132

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Second, even if we do, we have discovered through bitter experience that jewelry can either be snatched or, like very small guns, used against us. asked Marge Gibson, when I asked a group of bird rehabbers about their bling experiences. Earrings are toast with my Wood Duck and Wild Turkeys. Oh my, where do I start?”

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Bald Eagle Wildlife Rehabilitation Vet Birds 214

10,000 Birds

JUNE 29, 2013

There were three other small groups staying there and after dinner we all drove 40 minutes to the cliffs. I can hardly begin to describe the surreal experience that unfolded before me. It is truly a magical place, an experience like none other. Sadly, I missed out on seeing White-tailed Eagles and Harlequin Ducks.

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Iceland Puffins Europe Birds 182

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2013

Now and then individual catfish of various species hunt nearer the surface and larger catfish such as the American Channel Cat will take a duck or other water bird. During this study, all the pigeon predation was observed on one small island where the birds grouped to preen and drink. Pigeons that moved were sitting ducks.

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Fish Birds Whales Whaling 199

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2011

Back in 2006, Problogger Darren Rowse proposed a fun Group Writing Project challenging bloggers to put together a good “How To&# post. If you look for ducks in summer or warblers in winter, you’re very likely to be disappointed. The next logical step was to explain the right way to get started.

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Birds United States 2006 Breeders 196

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2024

Late summer 2023 the lakes and ponds had been empty, presumably because the ducks and geese were moulting. Empty no more, the ponds were now brimming with ducks of all creeds and persuasions – it was spectacular. Large groups of Hooded Merganser , Redhead , Franklin’s Gull , and other floaters were easily spotted.

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Denver Colorado Ducks Mules 158

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

But getting a grip on gulls can be rewarding, and even within a large group of seemingly drab-colored, dump-loving trash eaters, there are spectacular species, like the dramatic Sabine’s Gull, the nearly mythical Ivory Gull, and easily one of the most sought-after species in North America, the mysterious Ross’s gull. And, it is.).

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Birds North Carolina North America Owls 262

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Since many of these exceptions are common birds (Wood Duck, Red-tailed Hawk, Great-horned Owl), I assume Lund saw the additional space as opportunities to teach people how to absolutely positively identify these birds, adding more text and featuring images of the species in flight or in gender-specific, nonbreeding or juvenile plumage.

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Los Angeles Birds District of Columbia Parrots 186

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2013

Stretching over the water, big boughs dangled their flowers below, so a passerby literally had to duck their heads to avoid the bloom. Across the bridge, my eyes wandered from the white marble columns of the Memorial to a pair of ducks twenty or thirty feet from the edge of the path. I was not missing winter, not even a little bit.

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DC Washington Birds Geese 187

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2013

However, the great birding experience that is Sani starts lower down. The male Swee Waxbill sports a black face and groups of these beautiful birds are common in the wooded areas of the lower Sani Pass. However, it’s not just the birding that makes a trip up Sani Pass such a memorable experience. Photo by Adam Riley.

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Lesotho Africa Birds Rats 164

10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2015

The flat expanse stretched far out into the distance, but close to us a few Least Terns chased each other, one lone Forster’s Tern glided by, and a handful of American Black Ducks swam about in the shallows. Not only did I see beautiful landscapes and great birds, but I could share the experience with my family. Maritime forest.

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North Carolina Alligators Wildlife Woodpeckers 169

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 21, 2014

In my vast experience in the terrifying outland that is the world of the non-birder, the biggest question I get concerns the inherent trustworthiness of the avocation. As an example, not long ago I found a pair of Long-tailed Ducks – a locally rare species – on a nearby reservoir. We are not immune.

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Raleigh 2008 Rights Raised 201

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Britain’s Birds is organized in a very loose taxonomic order, with priority given to grouping together birds that are perceived as similar. Browsing is facilitated by section titles at the top of each left-hand page and smaller group titles on the upper right-hand page. plus a chapter on “Vagrant landbirds from North America.”

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Ireland Birds Groups Falcons 140

10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2013

But why on earth would you want to go to some sewage ponds when there are so many ways to experience debauchery and dissolution in Las Vegas itself? In the meantime we were enjoying looks at waterfowl like Ruddy Ducks , Eared Grebes , and Redheads , as well as a couple of Lesser Scaup. Birds, of course! ( As Clare well knows! )

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Las Vegas Nevada Birds Blackbirds 195

10,000 Birds

MAY 15, 2012

Few experiences birding get me more excited than adding a new bird to my Queens list. Harlequin Duck - 01 January 2012 – A great way to start the year at Fort Tilden, and it made up for missing several the previous winter. The only seabird of the group and it figures it is one that I hadn’t predicted!

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Connecticut 2011 2012 Jamaica 169

10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2011

And we try to get groups of school kids out to a few of the events during the festival. If my caller had said “I want to see ducks, or sparrows, or grassland birds&# I would have suggested another event to him—the Potholes & Prairie Birding Festival in Carrington, North Dakota which is held in June each year.

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North Dakota Birds Ohio West Virginia 145

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

He describes his experience in his introduction to Birds & Words : I took my first good look at birds as subject matter. He started experimenting with silk screening to produce most of his designs, including the images in Birds & Art. White article on bird feeding stations.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2022

I don’t know what the experience is like in other parts of the world – so do let me know – but at least here in T&T, some of the absolute best waterbirding can be done at sewage ponds. What struck me immediately upon arrival was the sheer number of ducks. The complete list can be found here.

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Ducks Groups Experience Experiments 200

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Written in the tradition of the classic Hawks in Flight , but very much a product of the experiences of its birder authors, this is a groundbreaking book that offers a new way of identifying migratory birds at sea to all of us who observe the waters of eastern North America with expectation and excitement. The book is fairly large (10.4

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Ducks Groups Species North America 225

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Deadbeats To clarify, our more generous brothers and sisters on the extractive side of the wildlife appreciation line pay for licenses, excise taxes, and of course, the mighty Duck Stamp. As a discrete group (not considering population overlap), non-extractive wildlife watchers contribute more to the U.S. Birders pay bupkis.

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Hunters Ducks 2006 Wildlife 235

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

Other birds with webbed feet, including ducks and geese, have only three webbed toes; the hallux (which in birds is usually the “hind toe&# and in humans, the “big toe&# ) is free. That is to say, all four of their toes are webbed. He could not say the same today. almost everything about flamingos and grebes).

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2011 Pelicans Papua New Guinea Birds 151

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2020

And they were intrigued and they had questions, lots of questions, more questions than could be answered by a field guide or a social media group. Each spread consists of a full-page painting of a bird or group of birds on the left and a combination of text and illustrations on the right. copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley.

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2020 Birds Groups North America 262

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2014

It confirms many of the once-radical notions put forward or refined by Shannon Hackett and her colleagues in 2008, and several since, and it proposes solutions to some of the most deeply unresolved questions about how major bird groups are related to each other. ( “Metaves” was purported to contain the groups in Jarvis et al.’s

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 9, 2020

For those of us with the great good fortune to bird in Latin America, or other less-studied biological regions, my experience suggests that we are much more likely to benefit from the new species created by such splits. But you pretty much must come to Mexico to see the Mexican Duck , which I see every time I go to our nearest lake.

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San Diego San Francisco Mexico Baltimore 170

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2017

There is no experience comparable to birding a dump, and, I have to say, I have never experienced a dump like this one. Seeing this giant, awkward yet majestic bird walk through the densely littered landscape was a surreal experience. (4) 5) White-winged Duck. There were several there, plus Lesser Adjutants. 4) Small Pratincole.

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2016 India Ducks Birds 108

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

The biologist David Haig explains, “Speciation comes about when there is recombination and isolation between different groups of genes, so that no longer can genes in one group be recombined with genes in another group.” Speciation is an evolutionary process. Let’s not get into hybridization, which only complicates the point!).

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Groups Branding Species 2009 176

10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2019

Several Ferruginous Duck and one surprising male Goosander , four Glossy Ibises , Common Kingfishers , Eurasian Hopooes , a high note of a Penduline Tit somewhere from the willows along the canal, Eurasian Spoonbills , European Turtle Doves gently purrring …. Out of some 4000 buffaloes still being kept in Greece, about 3000 are at this lake.

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Greece Pelicans Buffalo Fish 189

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2018

My own trip was not an intensive birding experience, and August is clearly not the most productive month. Ducks and herons include Garganey and Ferruginous Duck , Squacco and Purple Herons , as well as the Eurasian Spoonbill. “I would certainly recommend Serbia to visiting birders. What has changed in the meantime?

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Serbia Birds Bulgaria Farming 150

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

And yet, we birders know it refers ot a particular shade of purplish red, as used to describe a duck, or a ground-dove, or a turnstone. Not long ago I was down on the southern coast of North Carolina, staked out with a group of birders seawatching on a long concrete pier on Wrightsville Beach. The Pac Loon never made an appearance.

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Agenda North Carolina Ducks Groups 157