10,000 Birds

JANUARY 20, 2020

The bird family that got his attention was originally the herons, egrets and other wading birds, but as time went on New World warblers, woodpeckers and ducks fueled the passion further. punch line to a bad birding joke, right? It almost sounds like the.

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Canada Cuba Miami Florida 162

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Mule Deer have always been pretty common in this area, but I got quite a surprise when I cleared a small hill in the road, and nearly ran over a male Pronghorn Antelope , right in the middle of the road. Finally we came to a cross road, where I went straight, and he turned right. It was good to be back!

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Dogs Mules Deer Oregon 102

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 17, 2011

The interplay between birders and their non-birding loved ones ring true, especially between the Steve Martin character and his family. There is no reason for a movie to get basic things about birds and birding wrong unless no real effort is made to get things right. What didn’t I like?

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Colorado Geese Family Owls 239

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2013

One Starling flew right past me, with, surprise surprise, a cherry blossom in its beak! The Grebes were gone, but present were the ever ubiquitous Canada Geese. More impressive in flight than the geese however, was a lone Osprey , dangling a fish from its talons! Though you know, I was surprised. Weather is weird.

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DC Washington Birds Geese 187

10,000 Birds

MAY 26, 2014

My string of winter-only visits to the Adirondacks is over now, happily, because of a three-day weekend with the family in Montreal. Hearing Winter Wrens singing right next to the trail while a distant Hermit Thrush sang its lovely, lonely song. Wait, what? That was a pleasant surprise! You know what else was pleasant?

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New York City New York Canada Woodpeckers 161

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 30, 2013

Also known as the Flyeater, this tiny bird is the only representative of the Australasian warbler family found in mainland Asia, and very similar to my own Grey Warblers in New Zealand, even their songs. Straight off the bat we found a Little Grebe and a small flock of distant Cotton Pygmy-geese !

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Thailand New Zealand Family Bats 102

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Feeding birds is generally regarded as a harmless past-time, a wholesome way for people to share nature and enjoy wildlife with the family. She started feeding the ducks and geese that used the open water in the 1980s. However, more and more news stories are popping up this year of communities cracking down on bird feeding.

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Bald Eagle Birds Deer Minnesota 237

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 17, 2016

Tawny Frogmouths are often an accidental sighting when you are looking for other birds in trees and something just does not look quite right about the shape of the tree. Tawny Frogmouths are actually more closely related to the Nightjar family. Tawny Frogmouth before it changes shape!

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Shelters Geese Australia 2010 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2011

These Blasts From The Past Requiem For The Rock Dove Domestic or Ganky Geese Birds at the Feeders in Saugerties Cardinal King Usurped The Sharpie: A Love-Hate Relationship About the Author Corey Corey is a New Yorker who has lived most of his life upstate but has spent the last three years in Queens. Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella.

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Breeding 2011 Deer New York 145

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2011

We were at Big John’s pond and a red tailed hawk came out of nowhere and we thought he was going to fly right into the blind. 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.

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2011 New York Deer Birds 153

10,000 Birds

MAY 28, 2023

Birds on the move after sunset The numbers of Glossy Ibis continue to increase right beside the highway and they have no doubt bred in the area over recent months. We were only seeing a couple of families a few weeks ago and now they appear to be everywhere you look.

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Geese Birds Ducks Rights 130

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 151

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

The best test of that proposition, of course, is to repeat it to any one of the hundreds of thousands of birders who have, say, a family. The medieval flint churches of Norfolk stand right in the center of the most exciting birding in England, and our Black Sea cruises from port to historic port feature Dalmatian Pelicans and Audouin Gulls.

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Birds New Jersey Guatemala France 239

10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2015

That’s right, the overwhelming benefits to the environment and the economy are generated by non-consumptive uses of the refuges like wildlife photography, environmental education, wildlife observation and interpretation, not hunting and fishing. 31 to provide inviolate sanctuary for migratory birds. Established in 1964, the William L.

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Fish Wildlife Hunting Game 142

10,000 Birds

APRIL 23, 2023

The water level had gone up a little since our last trip, but it is not flowing right across the highway at any point and the pot-holes are slowly being repaired. There is more traffic now than there has been for several months, but you can get right to the edge of the highway and let them pass.

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Pelicans Australia Fish 2019 147

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2016

Ducks, swans, and geese may initially appear easy to identify. But, as with many avian families, the more you look, the more complicated it gets. A minor item, but I like to get these things right.) The “Colour Plates” section is a quick identification guide, presenting text on the left and meticulous drawings on the right. (I

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North America Asia Europe America 142

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2014

There were good numbers of Green Pygmy-geese, Comb-crested Jacana, Great and Intermediate Egrets, Magpie Geese and a family of Black-necked Storks. Magpie Geese and Black-necked Storks- juvenile on the right. Australian Pelican, Magpie Geese and Plumed Whistling-Ducks. Magpie Geese. Forest Kingfisher.

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Geese Pelicans Ducks Hunting 161

10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2015

Regardless of the temperatures I got out and about both mornings on my own and in the afternoons with the family. In this shot the bird on the left has just landed, displacing the bird on the right, which is the one I was digiscoping at the time. There were lots of birds around and my camera was in overdrive!

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Bald Eagle New York City Birds New York 178

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. Glossy Ibis and Black-winged Stilt.

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Birds Geese Falcons 2014 165

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

As we walked from the car park to the bird hide we noticed a family of Magpie Geese on the edge of the billabong. Family of Magpie Geese. During the four hours that we sat in the shade of the hide we saw it make several attempts at getting a meal and at one point it swam right by the hide. Australasian Darter.

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Pelicans Geese Ducks Australia 150

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.). Goose : “any of numerous large waterfowl (family Anatidae) that are intermediate between the swans and ducks and have long necks, feathered lores, and reticulate tarsi.”.

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Albatross Bears Ducks Bald Eagle 103

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

The Peterson Reference Guide to Seawatching offers two types of information: Species Accounts–descriptions of 112 birds within 15 families as they appear over and on the water, and Where to Watch, brief descriptions of 47 sites on the North American eastern coast and interior recommended for seawatching.

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Ducks Groups Species North America 225

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Primates are exceptional among the mammals, living amphibians (which represent only a small part of the original amphibian family tree) are pretty noisy too. 66 million years ago, and one of those groups gave rise to the ducks and geese. Very few other vertebrates use sound so socially and so critically.

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Groups Collecting Primates Bats 169

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. Why bother with birds you can’t check off your list, right? He was right! Only one cuckoo?

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Florida Miami Birds Owls 114

10,000 Birds

JUNE 25, 2017

Several bird species arrived in Broome early in the year and have bred successfully and this has included Plumed Whistling-Ducks , Wandering Whistling-Ducks , Magpie Geese , Australian Painted Snipe , Australian Crakes , Black-winged Stilt , Red-kneed Dotterels, Purple Swamphens and Masked Lapwings. Adult Australasian Grebe.

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Breeding Geese Ducks Eggs 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 28, 2012

If I had more time I could have hiked around to find one of the star attractions, Gouldian Finches , but I had gone there mainly to find two of my target families, storks and cranes. Another nice find right outside the centre was a Emu, although it was so tame it can hardly be called a find.

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Geese Ducks Australia Pelicans 167

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 239

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. Wicked, right? The female and juvenile are browner on the back, though a female may resemble the male with age. Take a look at the link below.

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2011 Deer India New York 176

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 18, 2012

The lake was filled with families of Dusky Moorhens and Purple Swamphens (or Pukeko as we call them in New Zealand), all tending small groups of black chicks. Magpie-larks are neither magpies nor larks but are the largest of the monarch-flycatchers, and the most terrestrial of the family.

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New Zealand Ducks Australia Japan 170

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 29, 2017

Magpie Geese and Great Egret -Mutton Hole wetlands. Beyond the Mutton Hole wetlands we soon stopped to observe a Sarus Crane family feeding near Corduroy Creek and then we encountered more and more Brolga and Sarus Cranes all the way to Karumba. Map of Karumba.

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Turkey Falcons Zebras Ducks 101

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. Water levels are right but the waders are still very scarce. Wicked, right? Enjoy the details and proof here. What was your best bird of the weekend? I got the bird.

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2011 Deer Birds Owls 133

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.). Most of the species are described in the Species Accounts, arranged taxonomically into 86 family chapters.

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North America America 2017 Birds 178

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. What we do to animals shows how we feel about other species. If we must eat conscious beings, we must show them respect.

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New York Times New York 2008 Factory Farm 40

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Didn’t every household have a copy of a Peterson Field Guide on the shelf, maybe a third or fourth edition that family members grew up with, which they could quickly consult to see the arrow pointing to that belly band? Text for the species accounts are on the right-hand page. Where were their field guides?

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North America America 2020 Hawaii 218

10,000 Birds

MAY 15, 2011

This was a family outing so I was not to pay attention to the first option* but the latter two, to say nothing of the huge acreage of lawns and fields, which provided plenty of entertainment for Desi, who, at seventeen months, is more than willing to get into and explore everything, much like the Northern Mockingbird below.**

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Geese Birds Horses New York 160

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2016

He was the most loving father you could wish for and life will never be the same for any of us now, but we treasure all of the time we spent together and especially when we could all be together at the family home for a few days that one last time. It really has not changed a great deal other than the birding! Common Redshank.

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Iceland Netherlands France Kuwait 134

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! There are still some knotty problems to be worked out on the taxonomy of these families, but this new guide, featuring new artwork by Harrison and Larsson, works well with Steve N.

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Birds Colombia Collecting Bald Eagle 239