10,000 Birds
JULY 24, 2014
New Zealand had, once upon a time, some fairly spectacular game birds, including massive flightless geese, massive flightles rails, and really enormous moa. The obvious choice was the Mallard , that plucky familiar northern hemisphere species that is the father of the even more familiar domesticated duck. Not sure if it is yet.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 24, 2021
On a recent visit I threw my bags in the hotel room and went straight there, and got over 60 species of birds in a few hours and fantastic views of Nilgai , the largest antelope in India. Commoner species include Bar-headed Geese , parakeets, shrikes, mynas and minivets. You should also see Gharial and Mugger Crocodiles there.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 5, 2022
per cent of individuals of a species at a given time” and a vagrant bird as a bird that shows up outside of this range (p. The accounts cover vagrancy patterns for the family as a whole, reasons for vagrancy, documented examples of vagrancy for specific species and reasons that might account for those incidents.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 29, 2013
Joseph Chiera is a Masters student in Animal Behavior and Conservation at Hunter College in NYC and a “somewhat newbie” to birding. Hundreds of birds all huddled closely together, dangling from the jagged ledges, seemingly separated by species in separate levels along the cliff. The cliffs are a newbie photographer’s dream.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 26, 2024
A first-winter Red-breasted Goose at Cley, North Norfolk As a general rule, geese are birds of subtle, even dull, plumage. All the so-called grey geese – Greylag, Bean, White-front, Lesser White-front, Swan – look very much alike, and it takes experience to identify them by their calls and their shape and size.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 17, 2015
The Refuge is now home to nearly 200 species of birds, over 50 species of mammals, 25 species of reptiles and amphibians, and a wide variety of insects, fish and plants. Note in this 2010 video, birders, birdwatching and kayakers are mentioned, not hunters. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk_5pt9OTLA. v=sk_5pt9OTLA.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 21, 2012
More than three million ducks and one million geese migrate to the Sacramento Valley every fall. These wildlife refuges are literally essential for the survival of many migratory species of the Pacific Flyway. In 1985, waterfowl populations had plummeted to record lows. million but the wildlife watchers have now reached 71.1
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