Eggs Family Geese Rights 
10,000 Birds
JUNE 4, 2019
On large islands shaded with multiple trees, a family of orangutans and another of gorillas lounged in the green grass. With so much to look at, you wouldn’t think my eyes would be drawn to a pine cone nest on the ground, complete with a Canada Goose parent shielding her delicate eggs from the nearby antelope species.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2017
The open plains are now busy with young Magpie Geese and numerous other waterbirds and the Sharp-tailed Sandpipers are busy feeding up before migration. Masked Lapwings have been busy breeding for some months now and some may well be on their second clutch of eggs. Masked Lapwing nest with eggs and chicks.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 4, 2017
Magpie Geese were breeding close to the main highway south of Broome and so were the Whiskered Terns , White-winged Black Terns , Purple Swamphens , Comb-crested Jacanas , Wandering Whistling Ducks and Plumed Whistling Ducks. Australian Painted Snipe nest with four eggs. Four eggs in the Australian Painted Snipe nest.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 30, 2015
Regardless of the temperatures I got out and about both mornings on my own and in the afternoons with the family. In this shot the bird on the left has just landed, displacing the bird on the right, which is the one I was digiscoping at the time. There were lots of birds around and my camera was in overdrive!
10,000 Birds
JUNE 25, 2017
Several bird species arrived in Broome early in the year and have bred successfully and this has included Plumed Whistling-Ducks , Wandering Whistling-Ducks , Magpie Geese , Australian Painted Snipe , Australian Crakes , Black-winged Stilt , Red-kneed Dotterels, Purple Swamphens and Masked Lapwings. Adult Australasian Grebe.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 4, 2021
The holidays started early this year, with the first night of Hannukah coming right at the end of Thanksgiving weekend! There are still some knotty problems to be worked out on the taxonomy of these families, but this new guide, featuring new artwork by Harrison and Larsson, works well with Steve N.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 7, 2017
The Crossley ID Guide: Waterfowl covers every residential, migrating, vagrant, exotic, and introduced swan, goose, dabbling and diving duck in North America (Canada and the United States): 62 Species Accounts on four swan species and one vagrant subspecies; 15 goose species; 46 duck species; plus accounts for hybrid geese, ducks and exotics.
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