10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Today, the vast tract of land is protected, managed for science and conservation. At dawn, my feet hit one of the protected beaches with Wendy Allen, the manager of the North Inlet-Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, one of the science and outreach organizations working within Hobcaw. Allen’s turtle transect was 2.5

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2017

Taking my usual route along Okaloosa Island’s Beasley Park, I noted Laughing Gulls , Brown Pelicans , a Snowy Plover or two, and the usual packs of Sanderlings. Perhaps the males will grasp a fish in their small bills and bring the morsels back to prospective mates. For me, that moment came last week.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 16, 2015

Located at the end of a long public beach, the park features the beach but also a protected marsh – some areas of which are used by Least Terns and Wilson’s Plovers as nesting sites. After a late gathering at our rented house the night before with the bride to be, I was the only one up and at ’em at 8 a.m.,

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 31, 2016

Exploring one of the rugged, 4×4 side roads, my wife and I ran across a very nicely treed little valley that ended up against some steep protective rocks. There is very little fresh water, at least to be found year round, but the bird populations all seem to do just fine.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Located about 20 miles from Lakeview, Oregon, and sitting at an elevation of 5100 feet, this 208 acre lake is home to many species of fish, including Largemouth Bass, Crappie and Bluegill. With shore side access limited to the northern end of the lake, that protection allows for a large population of water based birds.

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Dogs Mules Deer Oregon 104

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2022

Fortunately, as I found out over the next four days, High Island, the Bolivar Peninsula, the whole east Texan Gulf coast area is a place of diverse habitats, some protected, some accidental, all offering fantastic avian opportunities. Corps of Engineers to protect Galveston Bay at the end of the 19th-century.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

Not many birds, two Ruddy Turnstones , one Willet , a fishing boat in front of the beach with a small flock of Brown Pelicans surrounding it, several Magnificent Frigatebirds above it… and several smaller flocks of noisy Scarlet Macaws above us. Brown Pelicans and Royal Terns abound. Anyway, I had no plans of swimming.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

Brown Pelicans , and the northernmost Brown Booby breeding colony on this side of the Pacific. Ringer Anhingas and darters , cormorants and shags , frigatebirds , gannets and boobies , pelicans , and the tropicbirds all share a characteristic found in no other living bird: Their feet are totipalmate.

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2011 Pelicans Papua New Guinea Birds 154

10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2019

Common Nightingales were singing, a squadron of Dalmatian Pelicans was in the air and everything was exactly where it should be, including myself. It was Thursday when we arrived and every Thursday at Chrisochorafa square is a fish-free evening at two fish taverns. Dalmatian Pelican © Dusanka Stokovic-Simic. Or the lake.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2012

It is predominantly a wetland bird and most productive larger wetlands and lakes of Africa will support a population of these large, hulking birds that hang around the shallows searching for fish, waterbird nestlings and anything else remotely edible. They also prey on frogs and crabs.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2011

I didn’t really have time to stop, but as I was passing by, I saw hundreds of American White Pelicans fly up and thought I’d better take a drive through and see what else was there. Fish & Wildlife comes in response to a lawsuit brought by the Center for Biological Diversity. Get yours today! The proposal from U.S.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2014

A range of hills protects the cove from the eastern wind, yet, the bushes are swaying in the rythm of it. Off to the nearest kaiki (traditional Greek fishing boat) followed by a flock of shearwaters and gulls. In the next post: the pelican-covered lake Karkini. Yelkouan Shearwater (c) Paschalis Dougalis.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 27, 2020

Numerous Black Vultures , Snowy Egrets and Brown Pelicans were also present. They all kept an eye or two out for discarded fish from returning fishing vessels. Brown Pelican. A Mangrove Rail called continuously for about twenty minutes from within the protective cover of the mangrove.

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Trinidad Pelicans Humane Fish 238

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2018

This protected area is of special importance for migrating waders, of which some 27 species were reported here, including Pied Avocet , Temminck’s Stint , Red-necked Phalarope , Sanderling and Dunlin. 2 Baranda fish farm. Rusanda is a shallow natron lake by the village of Melenci, 80 km north of Belgrade. eBird bar chart. #2

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Serbia Birds Farming Bulgaria 165

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2016

The species is also susceptible to the effects of commercial exploitation of marine benthic organisms and shellfish, and is threatened by drowning in fishing nets. Dalmatian Pelican Pelecanus crispus. In my native Serbia, pelicans are only vagrants, although in the under-birded southeast, they may be more common than we think.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2021

There is a substantial drop-off, so we are protected from crocodiles too. We had not seen an Australian Pelican on our last visit, but now the water level had dropped there was one lone bird. The Black-necked Storks were busy fishing as were the Gull-billed Terns and White-bellied Sea-Eagles. Intermediate Egret.

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