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.

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Bulgaria Geese Romania Estonia 130

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

While at Jones Beach State Park on Saturday, co-leading the digiscoping field trip (with Clay Taylor from Swarovski Optik ), I had a couple of experiences that made me wonder exactly how it is that birders find birds. The bar was covered with shorebirds, gulls, geese, and cormorants.

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New York Birds Sparrows Geese 169

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2013

I don’t know much about European Starling behavior, but it must be nest building time, for in every group of Starlings I spy at least one with a long twig or blade of grass in its beak. The Grebes were gone, but present were the ever ubiquitous Canada Geese. I was not missing winter, not even a little bit. Weather is weird.

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DC Washington Birds Geese 210

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2024

Late summer 2023 the lakes and ponds had been empty, presumably because the ducks and geese were moulting. Large groups of Hooded Merganser , Redhead , Franklin’s Gull , and other floaters were easily spotted. Empty no more, the ponds were now brimming with ducks of all creeds and persuasions – it was spectacular.

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Denver Colorado Ducks Mules 182

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

Other birds with webbed feet, including ducks and geese, have only three webbed toes; the hallux (which in birds is usually the “hind toe&# and in humans, the “big toe&# ) is free. That is to say, all four of their toes are webbed. He could not say the same today. almost everything about flamingos and grebes).

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2011 Pelicans Papua New Guinea Birds 158

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

For years now, Victor Emanuel Nature Tours has included among its birding excursions a group of tours that acknowledge the breadth of birders’ horizons, taking full advantage of both the natural and the human richness of some of the birdiest destinations on the planet.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

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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Fox Albatross Geese Bald Eagle 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2014

It confirms many of the once-radical notions put forward or refined by Shannon Hackett and her colleagues in 2008, and several since, and it proposes solutions to some of the most deeply unresolved questions about how major bird groups are related to each other. ( “Metaves” was purported to contain the groups in Jarvis et al.’s

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Family Birds Parrots 2014 279

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Written in the tradition of the classic Hawks in Flight , but very much a product of the experiences of its birder authors, this is a groundbreaking book that offers a new way of identifying migratory birds at sea to all of us who observe the waters of eastern North America with expectation and excitement. No rails or gallinules.

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Ducks Groups Species North America 244

10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2018

These were not birds that could live in small groups; it is postulated that their numbers quickly declined once hunting reduced the size of the flocks below a critical mass. Is this the type of avian experience we want? They have a hard enough time with Canada Geese. We know what those large flocks were like.

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Mauritius Stud Zoos Eggs 103

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2014

And, as we talked of Long-billed Murrelets and Pink-footed Geese and Nutting’s Flycatchers, questions came up. Within many of these groups, species are further divided into Old World and New World categories. The mystery of their presence makes finding one, chasing one, viewing one a unique experience. by Steve N.

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