10,000 Birds
MARCH 8, 2017
The region has justifiably been referred to as the “Duck Factory of North America.” WPAs provide critical breeding, resting, and nesting habitat for millions of ducks, geese, and swans, as well as shorebirds and grassland birds. For birders, the easiest and most direct way to support WPAs (and NWRs) is to buy a Duck Stamp.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
I am still tired from the long drive, but it was great to play with the very best toys for birders, to be able to share experiences and to ask the factory staff all sorts of silly questions. At the end of the 20th century (and before the ELs were born), the factory hired consultants to help it restructure and maximise profits.
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 29, 2013
And the magic factories are two neighbors, Green Cay Wetlands and Wakodahatchee Wetlands. Green Cay Wetlands at sunrise for the specials – Limpkin, Purple Gallinule, Black-bellied Whistling Ducks and of course the ever-reliable (at this time of year) male Painted Buntings. We exit the car and enter magic factory number two.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 16, 2012
Proposal: Creation of a Federal Wildlife Conservation Stamp A birder, wildlife watcher, photographer and non-hunter version of the Federal Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp (aka Federal Duck Stamp). She says, “there’s just a cultural bias against anything related to hunting.”
10,000 Birds
MAY 14, 2015
The final site of the day was sewage ponds of the sugar factory by the town of Kovin. This sugar factory is closed for years already and there is no one to talk to, but building a nesting raft here would be of greatest importance. A lazy raft of Ferruginous Ducks and, overhead, two Common Cuckoos chasing each other.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 18, 2012
Chickens come in at around 24, pigeons have around 40-50 and some duck species may have a whopping 400. Ducks are the avian leaders of bill touch. Birds use rectal bristles (at the base of the bill) and tiny touch factories called Herbst corpuscles to detect touch. And again, there is great variation amongst different species.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 3, 2022
Sadly, the numbers of Falcated Duck are similarly declining – it is thus listed as Near Threatened. Fortunately, Tianmashan is probably too hilly to ever be turned into a Tesla factory or a technology park. And it does not even live in reeds. This is partly due to hunting in China, where about 90% of the species winter (HBW).
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