10,000 Birds
MARCH 8, 2017
Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), contain many of the nation’s most renowned birding locations, including Bosque del Apache NWR in New Mexico, Laguna Atascosa NWR in Texas, and J.N. The region has justifiably been referred to as the “Duck Factory of North America.” National Wildlife Refuges (NWRs), which are managed by the U.S.
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. Pat Fish was the creative force behind a band called Jazz Butcher – he died in October last year.
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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
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
JULY 9, 2014
It is easy to make the argument that one, extractive (hunting, logging, fishing) is bad and the other (birding, diving, hiking) is good, but to my mind this simplistic black and white view point is completely wrong. For starters, not all nonextrative are harmless. Unsustainable hunting leads to extinction. Sustainable hunting doesn’t.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 4, 2020
White-faced Whistling-Duck – Dendrocygna viduata. Black-bellied Whistling-Duck – Dendrocygna autumnalis. Muscovy Duck – Cairina moschata. Wood Duck – Aix sponsa. Mandarin Duck – Aix galericulata. African Black Duck – Anas sparsa. Yellow-billed Duck – Anas undulata.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 2, 2019
A gathering of the beats at the “Hot Duck” barbeque. Plumed Whistling-Duck – Dendrocygna eytoni. White-faced Whistling-Duck – Dendrocygna viduata. Black-bellied Whistling-Duck – Dendrocygna autumnalis. Fulvous Whistling-Duck – Dendrocygna bicolor. Wood Duck – Aix sponsa.
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