10,000 Birds
JANUARY 27, 2015
We were at Colusa National Wildlife Refuge, of course, which is not only home to Falcated Duck, but many other birds. There are hordes of fowl here (fowl of the water) in winter, with geese having the most prominent presence. But this post is not about Falcated Duck. I get goosebumps just thinking about it.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 21, 2015
This mainly affects domestic fowl, and in this sense is not a topic central to 10,000 Birds. Overall the problem is not huge; the total number of birds affected is small, and the market for domestic fowl is robust. Interestingly, H5N2 has been used as a vaccine for domestic fowl to prevent H5N1, the more infectious avian influenza.
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10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 14, 2018
Over time, the word “decoy” has lost its fowling connotations and has come to mean any kind of trick or fakery. The Richard “Fresh Air” Janson Bridge that carries California State Route 37 over the Sonoma Creek in what is now San Pablo Bay National Wildlife Refuge is named for this colorful carver. Helena in California’s Napa Valley.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 10, 2021
Most birders know better than to fall prey to such sensationalism, but among the public at large, Australia is notorious for being a land creeping and crawling with dangerous and even lethal wildlife at every turn. And not just deep in the bush, either, but at the beach, in urban parks – even in the country’s suburban homes.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 26, 2021
Nevertheless, Chapin held out against both common sense and much scientific opinion, concluding that ‘it is more closely allied to the true peacocks than to any other genus of Phasianidae , and we fail to see that it shows any tendency to approach the guinea fowls, as has been suggested by others’.
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. Highlight was probably a White Throated Rock Thrush, but I’m regretting that I didnt try harder to see a Red Jungle Fowl that I heard. Enjoy the details and proof here.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 15, 2012
This bird spent the 2011-2012 winter at Colusa National Wildlife Refuge in northern California, migrated someplace exotic and distant in February, and returned to the same pond at the beginning of this month. However, he went far afield to find a more familiar fowl. I traveled to the other side of the world just to see a chicken!
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