10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

I tried to get a better idea of what exactly the definition of cuckoo-dove is but am still not very clear about it – Wikipedia only offers the rather formal definition “any of several species of bird in the genera Macropygia , Reinwardtoena, and Turacoena of the pigeon family.” But I may well be wrong.

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Birds Geese Fish Industry 147

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. at Gloucester Harbor.Or

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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 206

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 242

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Duck : “any of various swimming birds (family Anatidae, the duck family) in which the neck and legs are short, the feet typically webbed, the bill often broad and flat, and the sexes usually different from each other in plumage.”. Many individual species get an entry too, though they are generally not capitalized.

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Albatross Bears Ducks Bald Eagle 150

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. Tags: features , hong kong , orange-headed thrush , thrushes • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! Thanks for visiting!

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2011 Deer India New York 236

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 263

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

DECEMBER 5, 2017

The two-page spread on Parts of a Bird provides diagrams for the topographical terms used in the Species Accounts, including hummingbird, shorebird, gull, passerine, and every feather on the upper wing of an adult Lark Sparrow. 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 190

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? .” I was puzzled by what seemed like a universal lack of knowledge about hawks and falcons.

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North America America 2020 Hawaii 246

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 19, 2014

In a funny twist of fate, it seems that 2014 will be much the same as 2012 and 2013 have been, with family trips to somewhere in France and business trips to Indonesia and Kazakhstan. Jan 11 : The family gives me half a Saturday off to chase a long-staying Griffon Vulture in nearby Rheinland-Pfalz, about a 30 minutes drive from home.

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2014 France Germany Indonesia 145

10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2014

In The Warbler Guide , Tom Stephenson and Scott Whittle drew on science to create sonograms, visual depictions of bird song that showed just how a Pine Warbler trill really was different from a Chipping Sparrow trill. And, while my initial reaction to that buffy-yellow Grasshopper Sparrow’s breast was “too yellow!”,

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