10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
Here in Suffolk we now have impressive wintering flocks of Barnacle Geese, often numbering 1000 birds or more. The purist birders take little interest in them, regarding them as no more interesting, or exciting, than the flocks of Canada Geese that have long been established in the county. It’s spectacular stuff.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 5, 2016
Ducks, swans, and geese may initially appear easy to identify. It has also been published in Great Britain by Bloomsbury Publishing under the title Wildfowl of Europe, Asian, and North America , which explains why the English translation has British spelling conventions. Plate 37, Eurasian, Green-winged, and Baikal Teal.
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 26, 2024
A first-winter Red-breasted Goose at Cley, North Norfolk As a general rule, geese are birds of subtle, even dull, plumage. All the so-called grey geese – Greylag, Bean, White-front, Lesser White-front, Swan – look very much alike, and it takes experience to identify them by their calls and their shape and size.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
A few do breed in Europe, on the extreme north-east of European Russia. As the tide fell, it exposed sand banks that attracted small parties of garrulous Brent Geese. Both species of geese have increased hugely in recent years. Norfolk’s Pinkfooted geese are another success story. Pinkfooted Geese.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 7, 2023
It all started many years ago, when for my ninth birthday I received my first copy of Peterson’s Field Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe (3rd revised edition, 1958). In the front was the first checklist I’d ever seen: it featured all the birds of Europe, and within days I was ticking away merrily. I haven’t a clue.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 24, 2023
Last year, in November, I notched up a dozen species of butterflies, an impressive total anywhere in Europe so late in the year. Red-breasted Geese do turn up at Kerkini regularly, and one year I watched a Red-breast mixed in with the Lessers. Perhaps they do occasionally, but not when I’ve seen them.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 30, 2023
Lars Svensson’s accompanying text explains “a rather puzzling fact is that, among wildfowl, hybrids appear to occur more commonly among geese and members of the ‘pochards’, genus Aythya , than among dabbling ducks. Many years ago a friend of mine kept a small but varied collection of ducks and geese. The reason for this is not clear.”
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