10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 30, 2023
Looks like a scaup of some sort, but it’s not quite right My bird certainly had the peaked crown characteristic of a Lesser Scaup; the feathers on its head looked black at a distance, while closer inspection revealed a purple sheen. Many years ago a friend of mine kept a small but varied collection of ducks and geese.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 24, 2018
Most of the time, I know enough about an area, or have done some research into what is found there, that I am pleasantly surprised at best. This 57,331 acre refuge was set aside as a critical wintering location for tens of thousands of Geese, Ducks and Sandhill Cranes. Right in our camp, we found Ladder-backed Woodpeckers.
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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. A PhD student was presenting her research into the population in Westland, the relic population of Grey Duck. I mentioned 2008 as the year I became aware of the issue.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 13, 2024
I might have to add the Dallas airport staff to the list of things Buffon was right about. Late summer 2023 the lakes and ponds had been empty, presumably because the ducks and geese were moulting. I flew into Denver from Mexico. If birders were as inept finding flying things our life lists would be very short indeed. And now I did.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 17, 2015
That’s right, the overwhelming benefits to the environment and the economy are generated by non-consumptive uses of the refuges like wildlife photography, environmental education, wildlife observation and interpretation, not hunting and fishing. Finley National Wildlife Refuge : Expand big game hunting.
Animal Ethics
AUGUST 2, 2008
billion a year between 1997 and 2005, totaling nearly $35 billion, according to researchers at the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University. The fact that geese mate for life, and that the mate of the poor goose that was slaughtered would step forward, was enough to make me swear off meat forever, if I hadn’t already.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 5, 2016
Ducks, swans, and geese may initially appear easy to identify. A minor item, but I like to get these things right.) It’s heavily illustrated with both drawings (72 Colour Plates, 920 drawings) and photographs (over 650), and employs extensive references to and from each section, which makes research relatively easy.
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