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Pintail Duck was another sneaky bird! There was a duck upside down at Freiston Shore and its tail feathers were not the same as the others! Finally it turned itself the right way up and was a Pintail Duck ! The same experience was to be had at Rutland Water, so watch out for the sneaky upside down ducks! Pintail Duck.

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Therefore, this year’s goal is simple: In 2017, I want to enjoy birds as much as possible. Tufted Duck, Aythya fuligula. Furthermore, too much of my birding activity depends on the will and want of forces outside my sphere of influence, so even defining a minimum total number or a number of lifers is moot.

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eBird says that, at the time of writing (April 2017), there are some ten hotspots that have crossed the 100 bird species mark. Best birds: Common Shelduck , Garganey , Ferruginous Duck , Little Bittern , White-tailed Eagle , Black and Whiskered Terns , Eurasian Penduline Tit , Bearded Reedling , Savi’s Warbler , Common Reed Bunting.

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And then at the 2017 launch in Austria there were to be heard Ooooh’s! As soon as I drove up the levee which overlooked the marshes on the other side I spotted many cormorants, ducks and egrets and also a couple of Eurasian Spoonbills ( Platalea leucorodia ) , which foraged by sweeping with their bills. and Aaaah’s!

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The methodology section is detailed, but the highlights are that the survey was conducted online, and more than 33,000 birders completed at least part of the survey, which was conducted in 2016-2017, long before the COVID-19 pandemic. (I But only 13% purchased a Duck Stamp. “A This is not a surprising result.

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Illustration for Sophie Webb’s “Why I Love to Draw Birds” © 2017 by Robert A. Illustration for Ioana Seritan’s “More Than Skin Deep: Working in the Prep Lab at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology” © 2017 by Robert A. Braunfield. Used by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

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September 2017, Cerrado, Brazil. Author Joshua Hammer, who previously wrote about a different type of real-life-unexpected-caper in The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu , read about Lendrum in the Times of London in 2017, realized the possibilities, did the research. We are cautioned to keep the location of the eagle a secret.

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5) White-winged Duck. White-winged Duck is an ugly duck, maybe the ugliest bird I’ve ever encountered. We went in through the thick vegetation surrounding the pond one-by-one, took photos of the duck roosting in a tree across the pond, and then hiked out as quietly as we could to make room for the next birder.

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Black-bellied Whistling-Duck – Dendrocygna autumnalis; San Miguel reservoir, 8-Jan. As with my other year lists, birds in bold are special and the ones in CAPS are lifers: Great Tinamou – Tinamus major; Quebrada Gonzalez, 13-Jan. Least Grebe – Tachybaptus dominicus; San Miguel reservoir, 8-Jan.

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A late Nashville Warbler , an Orange-crowned Warbler , and a bunch of dabbling ducks were some of his top species. Some lakewatching at the Irondequot Bay Outlet was rewarded by my FOY Purple Sandpiper , a rather brown bird feeding on the rocks of the jetty. Corey saw some decent birds this weekend but nothing that really astounded.

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His explorations netted him several species that are lingering longer than usual, like Glossy Ibis , Lesser Yellowlegs , and Snowy Egret , a rare duck in a drake Eurasian Wigeon , and, best of all, his first Hudsonian Godwit of the year.

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AUGUST 16, 2018

Among travel guides, due to its extensive coverage of natural history and birding sites, recommendation goes to Laurence Mitchell’s Serbia: The Bradt Travel Guide (5th edition, 2017). Garganey and Ferruginous Duck , as well as Goosanders (aka Common Mergansers) at mountain reservoirs – they are all busy nesting.

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JANUARY 8, 2018

Sure, 2017 was a wonderful year , but out with the old, what have you done for me lately, and all that jazz. Even a later visit with Desi in tow (to give mom a break) was fruitless, though I did increase my year list with the hordes of wintering ducks wintering on the pond.

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Black-bellied Whistling-Duck. If you embark on a similar adventure, I hope you have at least as much fun as we did! Great Tinamou. Finally saw one of these jungle chickens attending to an ant swarm on Pipeline Road. Lots on Lago Gatún and the canal. Blue-winged Teal. Seen on Lago Gatún during our boat tour. Magnificent Frigatebird.

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The Convention on Migratory Species (the Bonn Convention) lists two of these species – the Ferruginous Duck and the White-tailed Eagle – in Annex I, with a further 64 species in the Annex II. Annex II of the Bern Convention lists 45 of Beljarica’s bird species, with a further 91 species in Annex III.

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The caption notes that it is a male display sound, given frequently February to May, “with a backward toss of the head,” longer than similar sounds by other Aythya ducks. It is longer than Wheew (Wood Duck, Northern Pintail) and more nasal than Whoop (Tundra and Mute Swan), two of the other sounds listed as low-pitched notes.

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Overhead, we got our first species in the form of a calling Black-bellied Whistling-Duck. As I approached her neighborhood, the rain stopped, at least around there, so I played a few screech-owl sounds while we packed the car with important supplies, namely the food and drink cooler.

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JANUARY 23, 2017

We spent awhile scanning the lagoons and were rewarded for our efforts with a host of Ruddy Ducks , a pair of Blue-winged Teal , lots of Common Gallinules and a bunch of American Coots which would have been a lot more exciting if they were still Caribbean Coots. This Puerto Rican Woodpecker was our second sighting of an endemic for the day.

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The birding has been rewarding as always and we have been able to add several birds to the 2017 year list that we may not see around Broome every year. The water was warm and the ducks floated off as I approached! Ephemeral lakes have had some Water Lilies this year, which have been absent when they have not filled up in other years.

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My first California Quail in California, at Point Reyes National Seashore in October 2017. I saw my first in Utah back in 2010 right around the time I first started birding but didn’t see one in California proper until a visit to Point Reyes National Seashore in October of last year. One wonders how they ever find the time to make wine!

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Length varies, with high vagrancy family accounts like Anatidae (Swans, Geese and Ducks) and Laridae (Gulls, Terns, Skimmer) seven to ten pages long and non-migratory, sedentary families like Indicatoridae (Honeyguides) and Grallariidae (Antpittas), just a brief paragraph, sometimes just one or two sentences.

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JUNE 4, 2017

After a very good Wet Season with substantially more rain than normal over the first few months of 2017 the land was flooded and a huge variety of birds arrived in the Broome area to take advantage of the ideal conditions for breeding.

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Harlequin Duck, 31 Oct 2010, 01 Jan 2012. Here’s hoping I’m writing another one of these posts by this time next year…though it will likely be 2017! Snow Bunting, 31 Oct 2010, 06 Feb 2011. Lapland Longspur, 31 Oct 2010, 17 Feb 2014. Common Eider, 31 Oct 2010, 16 Nov 2010. King Eider, 31 Oct 2010, 23 Dec 2010.

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In contrast, one of my lifers in 2017 was an Emperor Goose in the Bay Area. I wrote about Waterfowl Production Areas in this region (America’s duck factories) and want to visit, though the details of visiting an area that spans 100,000 square miles are to be determined. Another is California Condor in the Grand Canyon.).

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Although there are not huge numbers of ducks in the area at the moment they will be very spread out now the land is flooded. There can actually be too much water for ducks! Pacific Black Ducks. Hopefully they will consider breeding in the area like they did in 2017 when the land was also flooded for an extended period of time.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2018

The grass is ideal grazing for Plumed Whistling-Ducks and they are often seen feeding on the lawns when they are not roosting nearby at the Poo Ponds. Plumed Whistling-Ducks , Masked Lapwings and Straw-necked Ibis. Plumed Whistling-Ducks and Straw-necked Ibis. Plumed Whistling-Ducks. Golf Course birds!

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Plumed Whistling Ducks and Wandering Whistling Ducks have been nesting in these wet areas and our first pair of Green Pygmy-geese for 2017 were floating around on the track! Pink-eared Ducks returned to the area and we observed a pair of Baillon’s Crake swimming around beside the highway.

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It really can be too wet for ducks! It is highly likely that the Glossy Ibis will have a significant breeding colony close by, not dissimilar to 2017. Despite so much water there were a few Pacific Black Ducks , Grey Teal , Hardheads , Wandering Whistling-Ducks , Australasian Grebes and Eurasian Coots.

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DECEMBER 4, 2023

November 2016: Scaly-sided Merganser … … and Mandarin Duck. November 2017: Black-naped Monarch … … and Bohemian Waxwing. To satisfy that guy, here is my version of a contractual obligation post – a collection of photos taken in Shanghai in any of the past November months.

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The gunning trade exploded and shorebird and duck numbers dropped with the use of punt guns , giant guns mounted on boats, and other technological advancements. I did a little research and found plovers and snipe o n menus and in cookbooks of the time, though I still haven’t found recipes for Dunlin or Dowitchers.

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JANUARY 15, 2017

Broome’s tide chart for 2017 is here. There were plenty of other ducks present and they included Eurasian Wigeon , Common Shelduck and Tufted Ducks. The ducks need to take note of this map! Common Eider were visibly feeding as the water dropped back from the causeway. Causeway as the tide drops on dusk.

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JANUARY 8, 2017

The black-headed Gouldian Finches have remained in the same area feeding on the grass seeds with the other finches and were our 75th bird for 2017 and the male Gouldian Finch features in the header photo. This list was last updated January 11th 2017. Plumed Whistling-Duck – Dendrocygna eytoni -Broome, January 1st.

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JANUARY 28, 2018

The Semipalmated Plover gets an honourable mention on the display boards at the hut, but sadly it has not been observed back in Broome since it left on migration around April 2017. Plumed Whistling-Ducks and Whiskered Terns in flight. Plumed Whistling-Ducks. View from the hut late afternoon. Eurasian Coots and Royal Spoonbills.

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MAY 16, 2018

One is duck sex, which can be, he says, “elaborately aesthetic or shockingly violent and deeply troubling.” The trouble is, the definition of “native habitat” is, for starlings and many other species, now quite elastic. Indeed, it’s when Prum tries to apply his theories ( viz.,

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JUNE 17, 2018

The numbers of Magpie Geese were not only significant due to the high rainfall at the start of 2017, but the Magpie Geese bred around the area and there was a population boost over the following months. The Magpie Geese stand around on the edge of the water and swim in the shallows.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Prum proudly describes the unique methods undertaken by his colleague, Patricia Brennan, which included the construction of glass duck vaginas. Doubleday, 2017, 448p. I would have been very happy simply reading about these birds and the research projects that uncovered their unique behavior, biology, and evolutionary history.

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Other papers are locked behind paywalls.) That research ultimately led to an article about the conservation efforts regarding the Laysan Duck in the June 2017 issue of Birding. ( Google Scholar is an excellent resource and free full-text PDFs can be located for many papers, particularly when research is taxpayer-funded.

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