10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

I wasn’t having any luck at all though I was enjoying the typical assortment of wetland species that make we New York birders a bit jealous of our southern compatriots. You see, Muscovy Ducks are countable in the American Birding Association area due to wild birds from Central America making their way up into Texas.

Feral 178

Feral Florida Ducks Texas 178

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2011

When this native of Mesoamerica and South America is spied in the wild, usually in some corner of the Rio Grande Valley in Texas, it elicits admiring oohs and ahs. Feral Muscovy Ducks seem to attract many of those epithets. Frankly, I find them gloriously grotesque, akin to New World vultures in their bare-faced beastliness.

Ducks 216

Ducks 2011 Deer New York 216

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

There were birders from a wide cross-section of the United States: Colorado, Ohio, Idaho, Iowa, Wyoming, Washington State, Pennsylvania, New York State, New Jersey, California, Texas, Florida. They range from the successful eradication of feral cats from Marion Island (hear that, Corey?)

South Africa 253

South Africa Africa Leopards Penguins 253