10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2011

Most of the world’s domestic geese can be traced back thousands of years to the wild Greylag Goose ( Anser anser ) although domestic geese were also bred from Swan Goose ( A. Feral geese run the gamut from pure white to almost entirely gray or brown. cygnoides ) ancestors. cygnoides ) ancestors. Get yours today!

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Geese 2011 Deer New York 145

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

They reach breeding maturity at four to seven years of age, produce only one chick per nesting season, and only one in three offspring survive to fledging age. Ohio has tracked two families of their state-endangered breeding sandhill cranes and found them to have wintered over in Tennessee in 2010. Isn’t that neat?

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 240

10,000 Birds

APRIL 24, 2012

As the reigning birder of the world, I feel it is only right to look a little deeper into the lives of birds here, and talk about something beyond the mundane nuances of plumage variations of freshly-molted Empidonax flycatchers and if migrant Warbling Vireos arrived 3 days earlier this year than last. Photo courtesy of Redgannet.

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Birds Albatross Lifestyle Raised 187

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2021

The holidays started early this year, with the first night of Hannukah coming right at the end of Thanksgiving weekend! And similarly with 99 other birds — raptors, songbirds, ducks, and otherwise. We review what the publishers, distillers, or manufacturers send us, or what catches our collective eye, or what we have time for.

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Birds Colombia Collecting Bald Eagle 239

10,000 Birds

JUNE 8, 2024

The word “boreal” got hijacked by one of the Dutch extreme-right parties as a supremacist euphemism – obviously without understanding what the term really means. A variety of species of geese, ducks and swans swim on the lake while the woods and reeds have every warbler imaginable. It’s full of waders, ducks and geese.

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Sweden Geese Portugal Minnesota 130