10,000 Birds

APRIL 27, 2014

There are Australasian Grebes, Wandering Whistling-Ducks, Pacific Black Ducks and Little Black Cormorants present and also Magpie Geese. Magpie Geese are not always present in the Broome area, but this year good numbers came and they also bred in this area to the south of Broome. Glossy Ibis. Intermediate Egret.

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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 211

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Greylag Geese. Soon I hit the brakes for a 60 strong flock of Greylag Geese of the Siberian race rubrirostris grazing near the road. The best bird was one lovely Common Chiffchaff that was very hard to locate in the thick crown of an old juniper tree, followed by one mysterious small falcon. eBird hotspots of Prespa lakes.

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Greece Pelicans Geese Breeding 252

10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2016

Like the old TV commercial says, “But wait, there’s more” Once this water has completed the treatment process, it is then used to flood the agricultural fields right next door! Shorebirds, ducks and geese gather here by the thousands, nibbling on the fast growing plant life this area provides.

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Mexico Birds Pelicans Geese 139

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! Here are the picks of the 10,000 Birds reviewing team (Tristan, Donna, Dragan, Mike, Corey, Carrie, and Mark) for 2021 bird books and other things with high quality, uniqueness, and giftability. *

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Birds Colombia Collecting Bald Eagle 245

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 29, 2017

Magpie Geese and Great Egret -Mutton Hole wetlands. Just before we got to the coast in town we were surprised to see a wetland on the right hand side and soon pulled over to observe all of the birds there. Our visit to Karumba earlier this year was of course to observe the local bird-life and we took some time driving from Normanton.

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Turkey Falcons Zebras Ducks 101

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

This wonderful piece of birding real estate can be found 8 miles east of Olympia, and an hour’s drive south of Seattle Washington, right along the I-5 corridor. Nearly 800 acres of wetlands and tidal flats provide diverse habitat for the local birds, as well as large numbers of migratory species, including thousands of ducks and geese.

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Wildlife Seattle Bald Eagle Geese 106

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 20, 2020

punch line to a bad birding joke, right? I hope you’ve liked my story explaining the great and somewhat confusing Christmas Bird Counts done in my little part of the world, where ibises and White-crowned Pigeons are par for the course, but Canada Geese and Chipping Sparrows are treated as rarities. It almost sounds like the.

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Canada Cuba Miami Florida 170

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

all the time pointing with my right hand while holding the steering wheel with my left, and the hardest thing, keeping my eyes on the road. The best birds so far were two rare geese, Lesser White-fronted and Red-breasted Goose (both my second observations ever), plus Bewick’s Swan and Red-crested Pochard – all in Greece.

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Owls Greece Serbia Woodpeckers 106

10,000 Birds

JUNE 8, 2017

Looking at the river, I cannot believe my memories of the same place this January – frozen solid, with just a small opening in the ice – and 26,000 geese in it! Unexplainably, it feels right to follow the waters towards the delta. Or a falcon? Lesser Grey Shrike by Dûrzan Cîrano / Wikimedia Commons. Yet, what if it isn’t?

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Romania Serbia Turtles Blackbirds 124

10,000 Birds

APRIL 30, 2015

A quick check of the Collins 2 (I think American birders know this book as the “Birds of Europe”, but here, some branding mastermind has interconnected the company’s name and the book title) revealed that we are facing two Siberian Greylag Geese (race rubrirostris ). Scan of the ridge reveals a distant but definitive Peregrine Falcon.

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Greece Woodpeckers Eagles Birds 250

10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2012

But I had hoped to see what may be around, holding out hope that an early Peregrine Falcon would be staking out an aerie in the cliffs. 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. Our tent at Ijjijuarjuk.

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Litter Fish Cooking Geese 175

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

The bar was covered with shorebirds, gulls, geese, and cormorants. After a host of other birders arrived and everyone was enjoying good looks at Lisa’s American Golden-Plover a pigeon flew over the shorebirds and they must have mistaken it for a falcon because they all took wing as one before circling back to the bar.

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New York Birds Sparrows Geese 168

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2017

bought the rights to Noah Webster’s famous American Dictionary of the English Language , though it later lost exclusive rights to the “Webster” name.). According to Merriam-Webster, the Collegiate is the best-selling American dictionary and the Unabridged is the biggest. (In In 1843, G & C Merriam Co.

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Albatross Bears Ducks Bald Eagle 105

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 6, 2020

He became the social media hit of the day: “A Peregrine Falcon in Forest Hills!” ” I was puzzled by what seemed like a universal lack of knowledge about hawks and falcons. Text for the species accounts are on the right-hand page. ” people proclaimed. “A Cooper’s Hawk named Sam!”

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North America America 2020 Hawaii 234

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 5, 2017

To be fair, I could and should have also grabbed The Shorebird Guide for the Greenshank and Collin’s Bird Guide, 2nd edition for both birds, but the Nat Geo was right there next to me, where your favorite field guides should be.). No other field guide to North American birds does rarities so comprehensively and so well. (To

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North America America 2017 Birds 186

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. What year was the Red-footed Falcon seen in Massachusetts? Howell, Ian Lewington, and Will Russell, right in front of me. My friends had many more years of birding on me and had many stories to tell.

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North America America Birds United States 258

10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2014

As in the first edition, all bird images for all species are drawn facing or flying right. In the case of hawks, this often means flying up and to the right, and in the case of White-breasted Nuthatch, this means facing down and to the right. But, always to the right. These have been dropped in Sibley Two.

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North America Birds Species America 244