10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2013

Erika Zambello is a self-proclaimed ’new birder,’ still equally excited by Robins, Blue Jays, Mergansers, and Flamingos alike. She has lived in Maine, California, France, New York, and currently makes her home in Washington, DC. The Grebes were gone, but present were the ever ubiquitous Canada Geese.

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DC Washington Birds Geese 192

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2011

This cruel, cruel fate we endure in western New York torments man and beast alike. Share Your Thoughts « Domestic or Ganky Geese The Bluebird by John Burroughs » To learn more about 10,000 Birds, Mike, Corey, or the many marvelous Beat Writers, please click here. Thanks for visiting! Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella.

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2011 New York Deer Birds 154

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2011

All images in this post were taken in the first week of March, 2011, in New York State. Hes only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasnt working as a union representative or spending time with his family. No gulls were harmed in the creation of these images, just people.

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Breeding 2011 Deer New York 145

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. But meanwhile, let’s look at the four avian families that comprise the brand new order Suliformes.

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2011 Pelicans Papua New Guinea Birds 152

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.” New Jersey/New York. Finley National Wildlife Refuge’s primary management goal is to provide wintering habitat for dusky Canada geese.

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Fish Wildlife Hunting Game 143

10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2015

Late March in my home borough of New York City is typically when Eastern Phoebe , Pine Warbler , American Woodcock , Osprey , and other early migrants are back but many of our wintering birds, like Snow Goose and American Tree Sparrow , are still sticking around. There were lots of birds around and my camera was in overdrive!

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Bald Eagle New York City Birds New York 182

10,000 Birds

MAY 2, 2016

On my recent short family vacation to Miami, I was granted a single day to get out and really bird like a madman. En route to our next stop we slowed down next to a park and spotted the now countable Egyptian Geese. Carlos even had a cooler in the trunk to keep the pie cool until we met up with my family! Only one cuckoo?

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Florida Miami Birds Owls 118

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2011

A three-part trip report for Hong Kong including the Orange-headed Thrush and visiting Tai Mo Shan , Cheun Lung Family Walk, and Aberdeen Reservoirs, can be found on Redgannet. Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds The New York Times and Tweety have it absolutely correct. Take a look at the link below. Wicked, right?

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2011 India Deer New York 181

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DECEMBER 6, 2017

The book has garnered positive reviews in publications such as the New York Times , The Atlantic , and The New Yorker. Swan : “any of various large heavy-bodied long-necked mostly pure white aquatic birds (family Anatidae, especially genus Cygnus ) that have webbed feet and are related to but larger than the geese.”.

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Albatross Bears Ducks Bald Eagle 104

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

The vast number of meat eaters brake for geese, call the A.S.P.C.A. Back in the olden days of the family farm we never knew about the occurrence of food-related illness because we did not have a way of tracking it. The live feed can be monitored by any and all who are willing to watch. Jonathan Spitz Westfield, N.J.,

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New York Times New York 2008 Factory Farm 40

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Of the Central Flyway states, Nebraska alone holds out in protecting the cranes, having proven by its longstanding Festival of the Cranes in Kearney that a crane is worth infinitely more alive and purring in the sky with its family than thudding, broken and bleeding, into a cornfield. Canada Geese and Crows can figure it out, so can Cranes.

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 245

10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2011

The Snow Geese at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge will soon be winging their way north, so he spent some quality time with them, his best birds of the weekend. I always choose a target bird for my trips to Florida, which are mainly to visit with family, but I never ever dreamed that one of my FL Life Birds would be a MacGillivray’s.

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2011 Deer Birds Owls 133

10,000 Birds

MAY 15, 2011

It was once the estate of Marshall Field III but was acquired by New York State in 1961. Then a small flock of Canada Geese caught his eye and the chase was on! He was chasing the geese and I was chasing him! It was, in fact, a pretty darn good bird for New York at any time of year, but really good in May.

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Geese Birds Horses New York 160

10,000 Birds

JUNE 8, 2024

She packed her bags, waved her family goodbye, and left for Sweden. A variety of species of geese, ducks and swans swim on the lake while the woods and reeds have every warbler imaginable. It’s full of waders, ducks and geese. Once upon a time, there was an adventurous Mexican young woman called Miriam. Watch the signs!

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Sweden Geese Portugal Minnesota 130

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 118