10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2013

The Grebes were gone, but present were the ever ubiquitous Canada Geese. Some people, one or two of my family members included, hate Canada Geese with a passion that rivals their hatred for mosquitoes (if you’re from Maine, or New England at all, you know that hatred runs deep). Weather is weird.

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DC Washington Birds Geese 198

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 14, 2019

It was the sixth year in a row of the Queens County Bird Club Big Sit, my favorite event of the year. At five-forty-five Sunday morning I started the eBird checklist while perched atop the Battery Harris Platform at Fort Tilden. Using this trick we added Field Sparrow (new to the list!) and Lincoln’s Sparrow.

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Pelicans New York Whales Whaling 134

10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2012

Littered with goose droppings there is little doubt that many Snow Geese nest there, and the gravely delta is an ideal place for Semipalmated and Common Ringed Plovers. The universe offers up all sorts of delights and the rare events such as this partial annular eclipse should not be ignored. I was wrong, of course.

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Litter Fish Cooking Geese 174

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 17, 2016

They breed after rain events and this was exactly the situation once again. Most were similar to what we had seen in September, with the addition of Magpie Geese in the flooded long grass. On getting out of the vehicle it appeared that even the chick had taken on the pose in the nest! Tawny Frogmouth nest with chick.

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Shelters Geese Australia 2010 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2018

A pair Bald Eagles were doing fly-bys over our heads , and there were Belted Kingfishers, Canada Geese , A pair of Mallards, and three Great Blue Herons. In addition to all the community events, garage sales, and pancake breakfasts, was a notice of a seminar on the “Sea Birds of the San Juan Islands” at 6:00 Pm that night.

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Oregon Bald Eagle Owls Groups 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Within days of the rainfall event there are tadpoles providing a food source and also grasshoppers. There are now hundreds of Magpie Geese visible from the highway, so it is highly likely there are significantly more than can ever be observed when the land is so flooded. Magpie Geese looking for some higher ground!

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2017 Geese Ducks Breeding 239

Animal Person

APRIL 24, 2009

We are a far bigger problem on this planet than the (over)population of feral cats, elephants, Canada geese, or any other creature we "manage" or want to manage, "humanely" or otherwise.

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Project Treadstone Feral Cats Spay Spaying 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

There were plenty of birds on the water to keep me entertained, with close to 60 Greylag geese, 50 Canada Geese, 80 Wigeon, 250 Coots, plus a good assortment of Tufted Ducks, Gadwall, Shoveler and Mallard. Not really a hardship, but it made the count less enjoyable. I arrived, equipped with my telescope, long before dusk.

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Ireland Turtles Geese Farming 226

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

The bitumen has to be repaired most years after these big flooding events and by driving slowly it helps to stop the bitumen from falling apart quite as fast. Magpie Geese are also here in the hundreds and that is only what we can see from the bitumen! When storms come through the Magpie Geese can often be seen taking to the skies.

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Geese Birds Pelicans Breeding 227

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 10, 2019

There were already many Snow Geese (along with some Ross’s Geese) as well as countless ducks, primarily Northern Pintail. The weather was dreadful and there was a hunting event that made much of the refuge inaccessible for birding, but Okhlaoma no longer taunts me on my eBird profile page. FWS has a bird checklist.).

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Oklahoma Texas Dallas Wildlife 137

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Aleutian Cackling Geese on Buldir Island, Alaska, where they made their final stand. Aleutian Cackling Geese are another bird very familiar with the Pacific; they are the only species of goose that nest on Alaska’s remote Aleutian Islands. is on a boat in the Aleutian chain. However, their fortunes had once turned for the worst.

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Albatross Endangered Species Geese Alaska 210

10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2015

The refuge offers opportunities for hiking and biking trails, canoeing and kayaking on Swan Lake, bank fishing, and family friendly programs and events.” Finley National Wildlife Refuge’s primary management goal is to provide wintering habitat for dusky Canada geese. 31 to provide inviolate sanctuary for migratory birds.

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Fish Wildlife Hunting Game 144

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2019

For example, Bosque del Apache NWR in New Mexico is renowned for its winter birding, featuring huge numbers of Sandhill Cranes and Snow Geese, among others. million dollars for local economies, the annual Festival of the Cranes is the largest single economic generating event that takes place in Socorro County.

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Wildlife Maryland San Francisco Minnesota 253

10,000 Birds

APRIL 11, 2014

As I mentioned before, Freezeout means Snow Geese , and lots of them. But like any aspect of migration, the lots-of-Snow-Geese phenomenon is ephemeral and to some degree unpredictable, occuring earlier one year, later the next, and then gone as the geese head north to make more geese or south to wait out the winter.

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Geese Montana Ducks Falcons 174

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2014

date the split of those branches to 88 million years ago, well before the extinction event that wiped out all non-bird dinosaurs and many other forms of life about 66 million years ago (the K-Pg boundary). Now we move on to the Neognathae , which also has two very deep branches that lead to all the other living species of birds. Jarvis et al.

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Family Birds Parrots 2014 279

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 18, 2016

66 million years ago, and one of those groups gave rise to the ducks and geese. In any event, soft tissue was found preserved well enough to say something important about a key, if not the key, trait that we associate with birds and by which they, aves, distinguish themselves from all others.

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Groups Collecting Primates Bats 170

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2018

A small group of Canada Geese fly over, and out in front of their formation was a pair of Sandhill Cranes. The second morning, the winds were up, and the balloon event was called off, so Jeanne joined me in the refuge. This was a first! Jeanne loves this shot, so here it is!!

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Albuquerque New Mexico Mexico Sparrows 123

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2017

The ephemeral lakes are finally filling up after completely drying out and the arrival of hundreds of Magpie Geese rather than a dozen or so is a welcome surprise. A variety of weather events will cause birds to wander further in different years and we have noticed this over the years that we have lived in Broome.

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2017 Zebras Ducks Australia 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 5, 2017

“Ducks, Geese, and Swans” in the front, “Blackbirds” in the back; “Caracaras and Falcons” next to “Old World Parrots,” “Loons” about one-third of the way down the list, after “Tropicbirds” and before “Albatrosses.”

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North America America 2017 Birds 186

10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2021

There are still Magpie Geese about, but the long vegetation can make it hard to see them sometimes. We never tire of driving that section of highway after good rain events. Alongside the Black Kites and Whistling Kites we observed a Brown Falcon and a soaring Black Breasted Buzzard. Brown Falcon. Black-breasted Buzzard.

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Australia Falcons 2016 2019 157

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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Ducks North America Geese Hunters 122