10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 30, 2023
On BirdTrack, the British equivalent of e-Bird, the list of birds provided does allow for Tufted Duck x Ferruginous Duck to be recorded, but not Tufted Duck x Pochard. However, that’s exactly what I guessed the duck swimming in front of me had to be. My hunch was Tufted Duck x Pochard.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
A few do breed in Europe, on the extreme north-east of European Russia. The American name of Mew Gull is better Herring Gull : a bit of a thug in both looks and behaviour In contrast to the gulls and waders, all the ducks were dressed in their smartest finery. These were dark-bellied birds from Russia.
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 6, 2021
There were other target birds in this area of the state; namely Spotted Whistling Duck, Chestnut breasted Cuckoo and the migrant Black faced Monarch. To underline the mystery of this species in 2019 a Nordmann nest was discovered; the first in 40 years! That was clearly some time ago.] Here in Cairns it lived up to that expectation.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 9, 2018
Alaska Day commemorates Alaska’s formal transfer from Russia to the United States in 1867. More than a million ducks and half a million geese, including Emperor Goose, also breed in the Yukon Delta. October 18 is a legal holiday in the 49th state. What is ANILCA?
10,000 Birds
JUNE 9, 2021
You can’t say the same about migration: you can’t say that every book about birds is necessarily about migration, for the simple reason that only about 4,000 bird species migrate (with some 1,800 of those traveling long distances). (Well, purely physical attributes play a part, too: they’re pretty good looking.).
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 27, 2012
One of the sweetest subsections of the duck family has to be the sawbills, formally known as mergansers. Common Merganser female by John Borg There are six living species of mergansers, three of which are commonly spotted in North America: The Common Merganser ( Mergus merganser ) ranges widely throughout the northern hemisphere.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 22, 2016
Out of just under 200 bird species I observed this year in SE Europe, there are 6 threatened species. point to just one problem source, one over-abundant and highly invasive species – Homo sapiens. point to just one problem source, one over-abundant and highly invasive species – Homo sapiens.
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