10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 13, 2012

This terrific waterway, flanked with paths and studded with stepping stone bridges, is home to a lot of Eastern Spot-billed Ducks and Eurasian Teals. Eastern Spot-billed Ducks We crossed the channel to enter the stunning Temple Gardens. I’m amazed at how similar my day list is to that of others that have worked this route.

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Japan Birds Stud Ducks 118

10,000 Birds

APRIL 22, 2015

Red-knobbed Coots and Little Dabchicks patrolled the water’s surface, and every now and then a nervous flock or Yellow-billed Duck would land and then quickly leave. It was perhaps unsurprising that the lake at the end of the garden attracted the lion’s share of the birds. The lake with the Drakensberg Mountains in the background.

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Africa South Africa Stud Birds 157

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2015

Australia’s capital, set in the eucalypt-studded Great Dividing Ranges, has not got a fantastic reputation as an exciting place to be, but in truth its an attractive garden city with a lot of green spaces, parks, and other pleasant paces that make it a nice place to live. A bit into the walk I encountered a large mixed flock of birds.

Stud 157

Stud Kangaroos Parrots Australia 157

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Prum has had a long, productive, award-studded ornithological career, a chaired professor of ornithology at Yale and recipient of a prized MacArthur fellowship. Prum proudly describes the unique methods undertaken by his colleague, Patricia Brennan, which included the construction of glass duck vaginas.

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Ducks Research Animal Stud 100