10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Despite my best efforts and despite seeing around 200 Canada Geese , I had no luck with the Specklebelly. I saw lots of Canada Geese – about 450 – but no Greater White-fronted Goose. After all, I had to suffer through it, why shouldn’t you? The morning wasn’t a total loss though.

Puerto Rico 122

Puerto Rico Geese Canada Porpoises 122

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2016

There are a few, mostly confined to domestic or game birds that people may be familiar with at all stages of their lives – young pigeons are squabs, ducks are duckings, swans are cygnets, geese are gosling. They may be, but the names haven’t caught on. This adult still has some brown on the neck, but fully developed wattles.

New Zealand 104

New Zealand Parrots Rats Bats 104

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 27, 2016

By the cliffs we find several Eurasian Crag-Martins and a consolation species – a family of Golden Eagles in the air! Besides the usual threats such as habitat destruction, disturbance, poaching and electrocution, this species suffers much more from one quite surprising threat – the hybridisation with the closely related Lesser Spotted Eagle.

Greece 254

Greece Woodpeckers Boars Eagles 254

10,000 Birds

APRIL 23, 2023

Australian Pelican Glossy Ibis Most of the Magpie Geese families have moved away from the highway now, but there are still some close to the fence-line. Australasian Swamphen family Over recent months we have been on the look-out for Comb-crested Jacanas and we knew they were likely to be in the area after so much flooding rain.

Pelicans 147

Pelicans Australia Fish 2019 147

10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2016

Most of the trip was taken up with family meals and nights on the town with friends (and suffering a bit in the morning), but I did get away to do some birding in Melbourne’s top birding spot which isn’t so much a dump as the pits. Cape Barren Geese by JJ Harrison ( Creative Commons ). Terrestrial honeyeaters?

Australia 100

Australia Geese Ducks Birds 100