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Few suitable nesting trees still survive today When I visited Kerkini last month, the water was high as high as I have ever seen it, though the number of ducks and geese was low, as is usual. There were a few Mallard, and the odd Ferruginous Duck, along with Greylag Geese and Mute Swans.
Mallard duckling Mute Swans and Canada Geese are tended to by both parents, though sometimes Canada Geese will all pool their young into a single large brood because there is safety in numbers. Pity the hen Mallard that gets abandoned by her mate and left to raise a nest full of ducklings completely on her own.
And when it completely abandoned Hart Cove and went around the point into Seatuck Cove and out of sight, I was even more unsure. Smaller bill than a Common Loon , more of a clear demarcation between black and white on the neck, no white discernible around the eye, not block-headed but round-headed.
When that isn’t possible, many raptor rehabbers keep tabs on nests and will place an abandon chick in a foster nest. The first few years for female ducks and geese are kind of practice rounds. Some rehabbers even have surrogate ducks or geese that they can raise a lone chick with and teach it to survive.
It appeared that many of the birds that we had seen on earlier visits this year had abandoned the area due to the huge expanse of water. There were also Magpie Geese in flight and they will have most likely found somewhere to breed locally as they have in previous wet years. It really can be too wet for ducks! Glossy Ibis in flight.
The birds were right next to an old abandoned farm house, and seemed quite happy to have their photo taken, up to a point, but then like the wind, they were gone, out thru the flat desert areas of New Mexico! A small group of Canada Geese fly over, and out in front of their formation was a pair of Sandhill Cranes. This was a first!
O’Sullivan informs us that a fertile egg is finally produced (not clear if it’s from The Stud or the other male, the Bronx Zoo only has two males) and abandoned and successfully nurtured by a pair of Ring-necked Doves. They have a hard enough time with Canada Geese. On the WCS web page, Ms. What happened to Thelma and Louise?
(The phrase is also used in the Stokes Field Guide to the Birds of North America and The Shorebird Guide by O’Brien, Crossley, and Karlson, so it hasn’t been totally abandoned.). The general location of the section on Ducks, Geese, and Swans can be found in the front, in the Contents listing.
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