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.”. But only 13% purchased a Duck Stamp. “A A core portion of the birdwatcher survey involved discrete choice experiments (DCEs). “A

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MAY 12, 2009

Reading Deb's post about the goslings at Poplar and getting Jenny 's request to sign a petition to save the Canada geese of Ballwin, Missouri from mass extermination reminded me how much I miss the wildlife at the neighborhood we lived in from 2002-early 2005. And a dead end. There's never a shortage of creatures who need our help.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2011

And it looks even better in my hands while I dream about a visit to regions of Brazil I had scarcely heard of before being provided with a review copy of the first volume of the Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil.*

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APRIL 15, 2018

But a drake Wood Duck is always appreciated and that it plopped down in front of him at Big John’s Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge made it even nicer. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

But his Best Bird of the Weekend was a dabbling duck he found on the East Pond of Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, his first Eurasian Wigeon of the year! If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 17, 2016

I was privileged to help my mother-in-law see her first Common Loon in its summer finery, but for me, the highlight amidst the myriad ducks and grebes was a new regiment of Ruddy Ducks in the waterfowl mix at Conesus Lake. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you?

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2017

Corey had a great Saturday morning on the East Pond of Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge which has still not filled back up after being drawn down for shorebird season this summer. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 9, 2019

An expanse of habitat as vast as Murchison Falls NP in Uganda, as excessively generous in beauty and biodiversity, permits endless ways to experience both its birds and animals. We are incredibly grateful to the Uganda Tourism Board for so generously sharing the splendor of birding and wildlife watching in the Pearl of Africa.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2016

I spent several hours of an otherwise excellent weekend dipping multiple times on a rare ABA Tufted Duck. Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was a cooperative Blue-gray Gnatcatcher at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge that contentedly foraged while Corey digiscoped. That’s a win in my book. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

For the past several years I have been taking advantage of our many National Wildlife Refuges (NWR) here in Northern California. This leads me to my third twitch for the celebrated Falcated Duck ( Anas falcata ) at Colusa National Wildlife Refuge in January of 2012. This was a no-brainer. I found it within 30 minutes.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Wildlife rehabilitators are not known for our bling. 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. People who work with wildlife wearing nice clothes? People who work with wildlife wearing nice clothes? And parrots =.”.

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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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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2012

This weekend, however, I needed to take my mind off all those gaudy birds Corey was scoping down at the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. I’ll admit that I rarely reach 20 bird species a day, especially this time of year.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 11, 2017

From spring hole to spring hole we slowly moved, our captain providing running commentary on the number of gallons flowing from Silver Springs, the number of movies that had been shot here, and the wildlife seeking shelter within the cool waters. Of course, Anhingas have caught on to their hiding techniques.

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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. And I will continue my quest to see all of my Top 25 National Wildlife Refuges for Birding too.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2012

The water this Northern Pintail is in has human poo in it, which completely ruins the experience of seeing this bird. I know part of the experience of birding is taking in the beauty of the outdoors, but (call me crazy) I’m actually in it for the birds. What’s better than finding a Tufted Duck?

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

I haven’t even been to all of the best national wildlife refuges for birding. Given my west coast experience, I have made dedicated birding trips to several of the more predictable birding hotspots. For example, not much can beat the experience of seeing a Bald Eagle scare up thousands of Snow Geese at Sacramento NWR.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2015

Turns out, Monday brought more than a little rain, and we got soaked as we explored the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge and the Currituck National Wildlife Refuge along the ocean. Our last and final stop was the Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge, one of my favorite birding spots. Maritime forest.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

I don’t really know – from my own experience with school bullies or from Jack London’s novels? Illustrated with drawings by the author’s wife, wildlife artist Catherine Putman, “Understanding Animal Behaviour” has 178 pages. Mallard duck, Anas platyrhynchos. How did I know that? Hawaiian honeycreeper (or amakihi), Loxops virens.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2014

Among birders, wildlife photographers, and nature enthusiasts, it is renowned for its incredible concentrations of birds at the end of the dry season. 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. I must mention one thing.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2019

Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) attempts to calculate the economic contribution of National Wildlife Refuge visitation to local communities. Rather, birding and other wildlife observation ( e.g., photography) are lumped together as “non-consumptive” uses of a refuge. Every few years, the U.S. billion for local communities.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2022

” are the big questions at the heart of Vagrancy in Birds by Alexander Lees and James Gilroy, an impressive, fascinating book about what ornithologists and wildlife biologists have found out about avian vagrancy so far and their theories explaining this phenomenon. ” and its companion question, “Why is this bird here?”

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Islands, for various reasons, experience more extinctions than continents (with Africa being the only continent not suffering a bird extinction!). However the rewards are certainly worthwhile and it’s a special experience to know that you are one of a handful of birders to have had the privilege of seeing this bird alive!

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2011

Very few kids just take to birding like ducks to water (terrible pun I know!). Publications like Ranger Rick and National Geographic Kids can also satisfy their curiosity through their kid-friendly articles on birds and wildlife. 10 TIPS TO GET YOUR KIDS INTO BIRDING 1. So you have to break them in gently. GAMES AND APPS.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 23, 2011

For many birders a highlight of birding the southeastern United States, maybe even the definitive birding experience of the region, is taking in the great numbers and diversity of long-legged wading birds. Where do I sign up?

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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. If there were such a thing as a Periodic Table of Ducks we went from hydrogen to uranium: every duck imaginable was there.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

To that end please enjoy this quick guide of where to go birding and wildlife watching when based at any of the many World Cup locations. Don’t forget you can also see some wildlife on the road as you go ! North of Dunedin is Orokonui , a wildlife Sanctuary modeled on Karori with a fence to keep introduced mammals out.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 29, 2011

On to a small pond where we hoped to see a dabbling duck or two but found only more bupkis. Once we arrived at Villas Wildlife Management Area, an old, overgrown, golf course and I saw my car parked, waiting for us to give up this crazy biking idea, I was more happy than I have been for a long time. It was a bupkis fest!

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 31, 2012

After lazing in the heat I decided to visit the forest pools one last time, hoping for another sighting of Hartlaub’s Duck or White-bellied Kingfisher. On a totally ordinary Toledo afternoon when I was visiting my favorite Metropark, there he was: a spectacular indigo minding his own business at one of the wildlife center’s birdfeeders.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

If you ever wonder why so many American birders leaven their love of nature with a little self-loathing, look no further than the National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation , which the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service conducts every five years or so. It’s that damnable Duck Stamp. Freeloaders 2.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2024

Like the previous park, there were no ducks, coots, or grebes to be seen. Still, this sort of wildlife experience is available in pretty much any Mexican city. After finishing our circuit of Parque la Pólvora , we got into Eduardo’s car and drove a short distance to the Parque Tomás Garrido.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2014

The experience, the place, and the bird combine to make this my BBOTY. I had enough time to warn my husband that it was headed our way and we ducked. I was a bit sad, too, that we had annoyed the owl enough that it felt it had to strafe us … my normal MO is to avoid stressing out wildlife.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

Long-tailed Duck is one of my favorite birds that we see on the Christmas Bird Count. Many years of experience have been lost. Participating in a Christmas Bird Count is tiring but essentially simple. Compiling a Christmas Bird Count is much more complex, especially for a count that is in a bit of flux as the Queens count is.

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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. Fish & Wildlife comes in response to a lawsuit brought by the Center for Biological Diversity. The proposal from U.S.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2016

The authors themselves–Rob Hume, Robert Still, Andy Swash, Hugh Harrop, and David Tipling–collectively have 100s of years of birding and photographic experience. I imagine that it’s a product of the authors’ concerns, but I don’t think it contributes to identification skills or knowledge base.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2023

This past January, however, my experience was even better. And when two of those eyes are professionally trained for wildlife monitoring, that is certainly a big plus. For example, of the 9 duck species we saw, 7 are winter-only. Most years, a day in January of serious birding around Lake Cuitzeo can give me around 85 species.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2011

As part of the Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil giveaway we asked readers of 10,000 Birds to name the bird in Brazil that they would like to see more than any other species. They really appeared to enjoy this, because as soon as they swam back to the rocks they would line up again to repeat the experience.

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