10,000 Birds
APRIL 3, 2013
Henceforth, the Reading Fighting Phils will now be represented by two ostriches , who will live at the ballpark and greet visitors to the team’s games. On the less feel-good front, ducks have been taking an awful beating lately. Insert your Peking Duck jokes here.) Ostrich image by Nicor at Wikimedia Commons).
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 13, 2021
We will explore the dry savannah for korhaans, bustards, lapwings, Ostrich and smaller birds like waxbills and firefinches and we’ll look for Dickinson’s Kestrel , Lanner and Red-necked Falcons. The woodlands will give us barbets, terrestrial kingfishers, Brubru’s and wood hoopoes.
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 26, 2016
It is a good place to come down to from the city and look for Ostrich, Cape Gannets , Cape Cormorants , Cape Sparrows , Cape Buntings, Cape Sugarbirds, Cape Grassbirds and presumably lots of other birds with cape in the name. It’s the place to learn your African waterbirds, particularly ducks.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 28, 2014
Among birds the Egyptian Vulture uses rocks to crack Ostrich eggs, the New Caledonian Crow and Woodpecker Finch (one of several Darwin Finches of the Galapagos Islands), uses sticks to extract grubs from inside a branch. Interestingly some of these ponds are favored by these herons for foraging and have ducks that are fed by people.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 3, 2016
Actually, when I started to bird, my second ever duck, after the Mallard, was a Ruddy Shelduck! Soon, I found three large ducks on the water, but as soon as I come closer, they took flight, like proper wild ducks. At the Danube in practically downtown Belgrade – how odd is that? 10000birds.com/the-ruddy-shelduck-twitch.htm.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 18, 2015
Struthionidae (Ostriches). ANATIDAE (DUCKS). White-faced Whistling Duck ( Dendrocygna viduata ); Kasane, Botswana, 1 January. Lesser Whistling Duck ( Dendrocygna javanica ); Singapore Botanical Gardens, Singapore, 25 February. White-backed Duck ( Thalassornis leuconotus ); Wakkerstroom, South Africa, 22 February.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 5, 2022
Vagrancy in Birds is organized into two major parts: (1) A detailed, 62-page synthesis of research and theory and (2) “Family Accounts,” 259 pages covering bird families from Struthionidae/Ostriches) to Thraupidae/Tanagers and allies (Clements is the taxonomic authority).
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