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Keeping Ducks and Geese as Pets

4 The Love Of Animals

Ducks and geese may not be a particularly unusual sight in the wild, but have you ever thought about keeping them as pets? Ducks and geese make excellent pets because it is interesting to watch them as they go about their activities and engage with their environment. They can make excellent, if slightly quirky, pets.

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Keeping Ducks and Geese as Pets

4 The Love Of Animals

Ducks and geese may not be a particularly unusual sight in the wild, but have you ever thought about keeping them as pets? Ducks and geese make excellent pets because it is interesting to watch them as they go about their activities and engage with their environment. They can make excellent, if slightly quirky, pets.

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The Traveling Birder

10,000 Birds

Lifers includes Gambel’s Quail and Neotropic Cormorant, but the real highlights were the morning fly-out of Sandhill Cranes and the evening fly-in of Snow Geese. I mention these trips because, along with other trips and experiences closer to home, they inform my research into my future birding travel.

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Grallards: New Zealand’s Next Extinction or Newest Species?

10,000 Birds

New Zealand had, once upon a time, some fairly spectacular game birds, including massive flightless geese, massive flightles rails, and really enormous moa. Using ministerial connections he obtained 100 mallard eggs from the US and began to breed and distribute them. Female Mallard, photo by Corey. The news wasn’t good.

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At Sea With the Marine Birds of the Raincoast: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

This is the story of Fox’s experiences on board the Achiever, the research vessel of the Raincoast Conservation Foundation. It’s a small group of 10 to 12 researchers and crew members, and Fox is the sole person responsible for the bird surveys. Although we are not close nor on a direct course, the geese are skittish.

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Come@Me: Don’t Mourn for Extinct Birds

10,000 Birds

The Zoo episode focuses on two Pink Pigeon couples: The Stud and Serendipity, a male and female that the zoo people hope will mate and produce a viable egg, and Thelma and Louise, a same-sex pair-bonded couple who the zoo people hope will incubate the egg and nurture the chick. They have a hard enough time with Canada Geese.

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Bird Love Week: How They Get It Done

10,000 Birds

I also want people to know that our understanding of birds’ mating habits are constantly changing and evolving…there is still a lot of research to be done here, and we will be learning a lot more in the years to come. Greater White-fronted Geese are one of many species that mate for life.

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