10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Murchison Falls NP earns all sorts of superlative accolades: most powerful waterfall in the world, top 5 game park in Africa, and some of the most gorgeous sunrises and sunsets you’ve ever seen. What makes this destination so magnificent? Beaudouin’s Snake-Eagle … wow!!

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Uganda Senegal Africa Game 193

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The many small ponds and waterways attract quite a few ducks, though presumably due to their China experience, they are extremely wary of people. Ferruginous Ducks are relatively rare here – a pity, given how attractive they are. Mandarin Ducks look a bit like they have just been stolen from a toy shop, at least the males.

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China Ducks Transported Game 166

10,000 Birds

JUNE 15, 2023

Recently, I did a bit of embankment birding and, while checking floating logs for ducks, I counted European pond turtles (strange things birders do?) This is the usual game viewing routine in reserves of Africa and India. Tropical Easy but Active – few hours in the morning, rest and few hours in late afternoon.

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India Birds Africa Serbia 181

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2014

There is an absorbing game known to American children as “Where’s Waldo?” ” The protagonist of this game is the Wood Duck, Aix sponsa and this adventure is called “Mallard Mayhem” There is more than one Woody in each picture and the challenge is to find as many as you can.

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Snow Leopard Zoos Ducks Leopards 173

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2014

To explain what a Grallard is one must first go back to those societies and recall that one of their predominant preoccupations was game. New Zealand had, once upon a time, some fairly spectacular game birds, including massive flightless geese, massive flightles rails, and really enormous moa. Female Mallard, photo by Corey.

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Species New Zealand Ducks Game 167

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2018

Whether you enjoyed the game (and commercials and halftime show) or not, you’ve got to love an opportunity to share your eagle trivia with the non-birding masses. To get in the mood for the big game, I took a run up to Irondequoit Bay in search of Bald Eagles.

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Bald Eagle 2018 Philadelphia Game 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 28, 2016

We’ve worked to change the dialogue around the Duck Stamp in public discussions and meetings, and we’ve reached out to Refuge officials and conservation officers to argue for the viability of this concept. Since we first launched the Wildlife Conservation Stamp Project, we’ve made our case to thousands of birders and photographers.

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Wildlife San Francisco Legislation Ducks 186

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.”

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Wildlife Hunters Ducks Hunting 205

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Not long after the compilation gets underway starting with the order Anseriformes , we come to Aix sponsa and the compiler asks – hopefully – “Any Wood Ducks?” Now, Wood Ducks are somewhat uncommon in eastern New York in winter and after an inevitable few seconds of silence, some smirking wisecracker pipes up with “Do wooden duck counts?”

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2016 Ducks California Hunters 107

10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2021

Non-birders assume it’s a camera (can’t really blame them) or even a telescope for looking at the stars, but no, this here piece of fine gear is a spotting scope, the optical game-changing tool that opens bigger doors to birding.

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Costa Rica Transported Parrots Birds 264

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 20, 2012

Some of my dear friends have a similar compulsion to play board games, analyzing strategy and searching the rules for loopholes and infelicities until their eyes fall out. It’s only a shame that with the demise of the VCR as a technology, no expansion packs are foreseeable for this fun little game.

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Game Birds Puffins Owls 178

10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2013

Among the “First Four” games, the LIU-Brooklyn Blackbirds faced the squad from James Madison University. For the record, here are all the bird-related teams who made it to the tournament: Oregon Ducks. And there’s little that’s newsier (in the U.S., Here’s hoping one of them will end up in the Final Four!

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Louisville Bald Eagle Kansas Oregon 160

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

I have to admit that I feel like Duck Dynasty is a tremendous missed opportunity. Ducks have everything that such a show requires — vicious rivalries between the males, catty scheming among the females, kidnapping, mate-swapping, even freaky relationships among cousins that result in all kinds of who’s-the-daddy confusion.

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Dallas Ducks Baltimore Birds 174

10,000 Birds

MAY 13, 2022

Lesser Whistling Ducks are “not threatened by hunting as they are not considered good to eat” ( Wikipedia ). Lucky ducks. I guess having one racket is still enough to play the game, though it may not be sufficient to find a high-quality mate.

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Singapore Birds Zebras Feral 227

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

Yes, winter has done it again : here in Heidelberg, we are subjected to the painful games of Mr. Grey, trapped under his cloudy sheets and denied the warmth of the sun or the privilege of seeing colours on birds. Like Tufted Ducks, or coots. A decisively non-ruddy Ruddy Duck, a rare winter visitor from nearby feral populations.

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Germany Feral Ducks Game 174

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 14, 2021

Finally, South Africa has three 400+ hotspots, namely 1 Mkhuze Game Reserve 458 sp. There are many species of waders and ducks, vultures, raptors and storks. During the northern winter, large numbers of migrant waders and ducks may be seen. 3 Lake Manyara NP 573 sp. 4 Arusha NP 565 sp. 5 Tarangire NP 519 sp. 2 Phinda GR 447 sp.

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Africa Kenya Uganda Tanzania 205

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 26, 2016

It’s also a good place to pick up some African game if you’re on a quick trip, I saw Bontebok and Eland, two types of antelope, as well as Chamca Baboons, and if you’re lucky you can find Mountain Zebra here too. It’s the place to learn your African waterbirds, particularly ducks.

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Penguins Birds Mongoose Ostriches 172

10,000 Birds

JULY 25, 2018

In the winter this place is alive with thousand of ducks and geese. Today, I saw a handful of Mallards , two Common Mergansers, and a Wood Duck Family. Here is one of our pick-a-boo games. This Western Wood Pewee was going back and forth with a mouth full of bugs as well. eBird Checklists – 237.

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New Zealand Seattle Qatar South Africa 115

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Way, way back, during our inuagural game of Gone Birding , my friend Molly developed a theory of birds. There were, in her book, three kinds: Owls, Pigeons, and Ducks. water birds (ducks!) Think about the owls, pigeons, and ducks: the birds people already know. According to Their Kind Everyone knows this one. In the U.S.,

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Montana Bald Eagle Owls Ducks 161

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

The researchers flew a quiet quadcopter drone more than 200 times at different angles and speeds near populations of semi-captive mallard ducks, wild flamingos, and common greenshanks — watching the birds for signs of stress, such as head or tail movements or flying away. Even drone retailers and manufacturers are getting in on the game.

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Birds Protection Idaho Bears 185

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Ever since I learned that the Muscovy Duck I discovered in a Central Park pond was not countable by ABA standards, I’ve grappled with the question of “What is Wild?” The rules of the game, and what you can and cannot count, are the domain of the ABA. ” Most listers sail the same stormy seas.

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California Condor Rescue Game California 151

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 5, 2012

This blind in particular is usually good for ducks, geese, waders and shorebirds. As the sun rose somewhere behind those thick clouds, it began to get a bit lighter on the water and I got some pretty good shots of what I think is one of the most handsome of dabbling ducks, the Northern Pintail ( Anas acuta ). Just look at this drake.

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Sacramento Wildlife North America Ducks 104

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2016

There are a few, mostly confined to domestic or game birds that people may be familiar with at all stages of their lives – young pigeons are squabs, ducks are duckings, swans are cygnets, geese are gosling. English has not been similarly encumbered with frivolous names for young birds of specific types.

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New Zealand Parrots Rats Bats 105

10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2013

Mangrove Warblers, in particular, turn up in the ABA listing area with some regularity, particularly at the southern tip of Texas, where higgledy-piggledy is the name of the game. Chuk makes his quip about the Black-winged Yellow Bird; my friend Molly insists that everything is a duck, a pigeon, or an owl.

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Connecticut Baltimore North America New York City 178

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2019

The tendency of birds to alight onto the wooden posts, steel towers, and metal wires that constitute our power and communications infrastructure turns any car ride into exciting and endless game of drive-by identification. And we move on to the next speck looming ahead and the game repeats itself, over and over. As Daniel L.

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United States Game North America New York City 118

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2011

Very few kids just take to birding like ducks to water (terrible pun I know!). GAMES AND APPS. What kid does not love games? Thankfully there are several really excellent family board games that you can play as a whole family. 10 TIPS TO GET YOUR KIDS INTO BIRDING 1. So you have to break them in gently.

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Birds Game Wildlife Family 279

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 30, 2015

In winter a few ducks are likely. Low tide reveals a small beach which may attract Marbled Godwit who were playing sanderling games in the gently advancing water during this most recent visit. Black Phoebes hawk for flies from the ruins and Western Gulls, California Gulls and Heerman’s Gulls can often be seen in the pool.

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San Francisco Seals Transported Ducks 133

10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2014

For all that, though, migration here is still largely a water-based show, with the most spectacular signs of springs coming in the forms of ducks, geese, and swans. As ponds thaw open reports are coming in of Barrow’s Goldeneye, Pied-billed Grebe, Cinnamon and Green-winged Teal, Gadwall and Wigeons and Shovelers. The result?

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Geese Montana Breeding Pelicans 181

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2019

The same can’t really be said of a confusing Orange Bishop or gaudy Mandarin Duck loose in a city park. And because of the resemblance they bear to their New World cousins in the family Phasianidae , they even look the part of an “authentic” wild bird in North America.

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North America Vermont America Farming 113

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2022

Sadly, the numbers of Falcated Duck are similarly declining – it is thus listed as Near Threatened. And it does not even live in reeds. This is partly due to hunting in China, where about 90% of the species winter (HBW). A Yellow-throated Bunting enjoying a sunny morning in the reedbeds of Nanhui.

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Raccoons Birds Oregon China 221

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2011

There was a lot of hunting for Bald Eagles—it is traditionally a game species. The Bald Eagle has the potential to be the Holy Grail of game birds. Buried in the text at that link is the proposal to hunt Kentucky Sandhill Cranes, along with a bunch of duck hunting stuff. We’ve always hunted Bald Eagles.

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Bald Eagle Eagles Hunting Kentucky 258

10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2020

When you review the system, it makes perfect sense: falcons are placed with hawks, nightjars are next to owls, and grebes are close to ducks, rather than separated from them by quail and grouse. I did catch a minor error in the page number references for Lesser Scaup and Ring-necked Duck, which will hopefully be corrected in future printings.)

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North America America Hawaii Birds 215

10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2014

The first most readers have probably been aware of, the cheerleader hunter who has been in the news for, well, hunting game animals and being attractive and blonde. I’ve written before about how I don’t think shooting game in the name of conservation is necessarily a bad idea. she’s Texan.

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Rhinos Hunting New Zealand Science 169

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 31, 2015

Most will be familiar with a game that matches the face value of playing cards and prompts a loud “snap” to win a hand. African Black Duck – Anas sparsa – Walter Sisulu Botanic Gardens – Jan 15th. Red-billed Duck – Anas erythrorhyncha – Marievale Bird Sanctuary – Jan 13 th.

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2015 Ghana Sanctuary Senegal 157

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2012

One would display one’s credentials as a sporting gentleman by correct use of the terms and knowing that a flock of duck might be called a raft or a skein , depending on whether they were floating or flying, was essential. Known at the time as ‘ terms of venery’ , we know them today as collective nouns.

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Hunting Collecting Groups Fox 151

10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2016

While checking floating logs for ducks, I counted European pond turtles (strange things birders do?) This is the usual game viewing routine in reserves of Africa and India. and found very different population densities – 72 vs. only 5 per one kilometre in various sectors of the Danube backwaters.

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Birds India Africa Serbia 114

10,000 Birds

MARCH 24, 2012

In fact, I mostly focused on waterbirds for awhile, including my first Wood Ducks in Queens for the year, and my first Ring-necked Ducks and Pied-billed Grebe of the year anywhere. And though I enjoyed the passerine symphony the other highlights of the morning were not perching birds.

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Chickens Birds Blackbirds 2010 164