10,000 Birds

MARCH 17, 2011

It won’t be long before the drake Ruddy Ducks are all in their breeding finery and doing their displays for the females so I thought I would take the time this past weekend to try to get some decent shots of the males that are still in basic plumage. Jochen Mar 17th, 2011 at 11:11 am To me, they’ll always be the Rubbery Ducks.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2011

This fear of the dark and deep is the reason why I am happy and grateful every day I wasn’t born a duck. Seriously, ducks must be the toughest creatures ever, the Chuck Norrises of the bird world, because they endure this thing all the time. He doesn’t go there for the ducks, but for the fish.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

There were several ducks around the water body and they included Pacific Black Ducks , Plumed Whistling-Ducks and Wandering Whistling-Ducks. The egret family were represented by the Great Egrets , Intermediate Egrets and a lone Cattle Egret. Ducks, Ibis and Egrets. There was also a Black-necked Stork.

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Cattle Ducks Zebras Australia 297

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 27, 2012

One of the sweetest subsections of the duck family has to be the sawbills, formally known as mergansers. Mergansers are a family of diving waterfowl in Merginae , the seaduck subfamily of Anatidae. Ironically, only one of these seaducks is truly a seafarer, the others favoring rivers and lakes.

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JUNE 30, 2013

Duck hunting is big business in the United States. Just ask whoever greenlit the A&E reality show Duck Dynasty , about a family that sells duck calls.) But what about those of us who’d rather just look at ducks than shoot them? Where’s our duck stamp? Birds Conservation duck stamp'

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Wildlife Jordan Ducks United States 201

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APRIL 5, 2023

While the P-a-P Wildfowl Trust’s main thrust is the breeding and release of five duck species, the habitat encourages a number of native wetland birds to inhabit and proliferate the area. While enjoying the family of Wattled Jacanas , a female Green Kingfisher flew in to an overhanging branch and sat there for several minutes.

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Trinidad Birds Ducks Fish 264

10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2021

My family’s walk through Rochester’s historic Mt. But everything else paled in comparison to his first Black-bellied Whistling-Duck in Queens since 2010. We just endured the warmest June on record, which may well turn out to be the coolest June we’ll see in a long time. How about you?

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FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Several days of sub-freezing temperatures have frozen over the lakes in my hometown of Greensboro, North Carolina, making for phenomenal duck watching for those willing to brave the weather. The ducks were still concentrated in the, ever increasing, pockets of open water as if it were much colder. If what you asked for were ducks.

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North Carolina Ducks Farming Fish 212

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Feeding birds is generally regarded as a harmless past-time, a wholesome way for people to share nature and enjoy wildlife with the family. Granted, the law is written poorly, but the man was given several warnings and insisted on feeding birds on the ground and attracted huge flocks of ducks and no doubt raccoons at night.

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Bald Eagle Deer Minnesota 2000 261

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APRIL 8, 2012

The month and this particular period is all the more auspicious for me and mine, as so many friends and families celebrate spring birthdays. My family took our annual post-Easter Egg hunt hike at Powder Mills Park, where I spied several gorgeous matched pairs of Wood Ducks along with lots of different woodpecker species.

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2012 Eggs Hunting Woodpeckers 216

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 26, 2022

This Black-bellied Whistling Duck was on its way to visit its mate and young brood further afield in the same pond but made a detour. Did the Black-bellied Whistling Duck represent his family, “showing face” as we say here in the Caribbean? Apologies for excluding them from this carousel. Spotted Sandpiper.

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Elephants Ducks Humane Family 279

10,000 Birds

MARCH 23, 2022

As it turned out, the remaining water was too shallow for ducks, except a few Northern Shovelers. Admittedly, early May is too late to find most duck species in Michoacán, even in a good year.) In fact, I can see many more of these ducks, much closer to home. It was only a bit better for shorebirds and egrets.

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Ducks Mexico Fish Breeding 259

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

For a few years now, every time they visit their family here, he or they go with me to bird my favorite sites. Just two weeks earlier, the only ducks I had seen were a handful of resident Mexican Ducks and Fulvous Whistling-Ducks. His wife, Fany, is also a biologist, and is from Morelia.

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Ducks 2020 Eggs California 296

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OCTOBER 14, 2020

The best laid plans… Last week, I had hoped to get permission to get onto the campus of one or Morelia’s many universities, to look for a family of Wood Ducks that apparently have arrived to spend the winter in its unusual habitat of marshy forest. In fact, it was guaranteed before I got out of bed!

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Mexico Family Laws Ducks 279

10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2015

Since we’ve covered some generalities already, once a month I’ll be exploring how a species, genus, or family of birds got its name, and how those names fit in with our larger understanding of, and relationship with, birds. At the request of blog management, I’m embarking on a series of posts on the names of birds.

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Falcons Eagles Meat Geese 260

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2014

As a result the sea ice has become more unstable, endangering the Inuit who hunt and work on the bay and the ducks who can no longer rely on their instincts to find open water. The one thing that a traditional nature documentary often lacks is real characters, to its detriment.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2013

And now we enter into a family of birds more or less unknown to non-birders. And truth told, over the years they’ve been something of a square peg for ornithologists too, not fitting precisely into any of the known families of birds. A Family of Little Grebes – YC Lee, Bird Ecology Study Group.

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Jordan Guatemala South America Birds 224

10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2012

The sitting duck of a crow was surrounded by a group of teenagers who were not eco-friendly. A short time later Russell rolled away, safe – if not sound – in the family’s station wagon. Grace and her family had lavished him with kindness and care, so despite his ordeal, he was a friendly, lively crow.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Montana Compassion Rescue 229

10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2024

Originating from the word “Rapon” which translates to Black-bellied Whistling Duck in the Makushi language, the Rupununi River flows north and then east, where it then joins the mighty Essequibo River that flows northward through the rest of Guyana, ultimately meeting its end at the country’s (only) Atlantic coast.

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Guyana Otters Trinidad Bats 244

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

But Swarovski Optik is a family-owned business, so the then CEO, Mr. Swarovski, categorically rejected the advice and decided: factory stays in Austria, and the prices will only go up! At the end of the 20th century (and before the ELs were born), the factory hired consultants to help it restructure and maximise profits.

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Austria Factory Asia Battery 299

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

Parents with little bird knowledge will tell a child that any species of duck is a duck and any species of gull is a Seagull!! This covers all species in both the duck and gull family in most households! On the list of birds easily identified by a young child you would have to have Seagull on the list!

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Ducks Fish Species Family 209

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

The Peterson Reference Guide to Seawatching offers two types of information: Species Accounts–descriptions of 112 birds within 15 families as they appear over and on the water, and Where to Watch, brief descriptions of 47 sites on the North American eastern coast and interior recommended for seawatching. First, evaluate size.

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Ducks Groups North America North Dakota 247

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2011

Astounding because she picked up birding before she could speak and surprising because this ability was definitely not inherited from anyone in my family, myself included. Very few kids just take to birding like ducks to water (terrible pun I know!). Her natural talent was astounding and surprising. So you have to break them in gently.

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Birds Game South Africa Wildlife 279

10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2011

we received an inquiry about a bird “about the size of a small duck, much bigger than a jay… a crest similar to a jay or a roadrunner and it has a remarkably long neck.&# One could dwell on how convoluted its family tree is… the Butorides complex, as it’s called, is surprisingly complex.

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Jamaica Fish Adoptable Ducks 259

10,000 Birds

MARCH 24, 2024

There are beautiful beaches, a plethora of amazing food and drinks, a multitude of family fun locations, a world-renowned zoo, and one of the biggest birding festivals in the US. My family visited San Diego every year as part of a Disneyland-SoCal Road trip to escape the rainy Christmases at home near Portland, Oregon.

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San Diego Sea Lions Lions Birds 241

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JULY 2, 2024

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. There are also introductions to a couple of related species within the family sections–Golden-Plovers and Willets.

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North America America 2006 Delaware 264

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2012

We are back from our ten-day family vacation to Berlin and Prague and it was awesome. Mandarin Ducks are countable in Germany. What’s not to like about cobblestone streets, great architecture, wonderful friends, lots of beer and delicious food, unfamiliar birds, and not working for ten days? Nothing, that’s what!

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Germany Ducks New York Birds 171

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2011

This year’s total of waterbirds species nesting on the islands wetlands was 18 with one species of grebe, four species of herons, one ibis, five species of ducks, two species of gallinules, five species of waders and one species of Tern. One pair of Little Egrets along with two pairs of Night Herons nested at Kanli dam.

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Cyprus Ducks Cattle Breeding 185

10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2013

Chuk makes his quip about the Black-winged Yellow Bird; my friend Molly insists that everything is a duck, a pigeon, or an owl. Philosophically, arbitrary names divorce average people from nature, creating the same effect as any system of jargon — keeping insiders in and outsiders out.

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Connecticut Baltimore North America New York City 208

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Not a great place for a family vacation, though I think Duncan will disagree. Species Accounts are grouped by family, following what appears to be Sibley and Monroe’s 1996 taxonomy. (I So, we start with Megapodes (scrubfowl), Pheasants, and Partridges, then on to Ducks. Artwork is by Karen Phillips.

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Brunei Asia Birds China 195

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FEBRUARY 29, 2012

They are the only endemic duck species that hunting is permitted for, in fact, the other species being either too rare or outright extinct. Dad with the family a few months ago. Both, howveer, are attractive birds. The female. The lower two females pictured here are in eclipse plumage, unlike the first one.

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New Zealand Sanctuary Suffering Ducks 162

10,000 Birds

APRIL 21, 2014

I spent this past weekend in Saugerties at my folks’ house in order to look for Easter eggs, let Desi enjoy time with his cousins, and generally have a good ol’ time with family. Though the Wood Duck at the top of this post might be more gaudy the Blue-winged Teal were more cooperative.

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New York Birds Blackbirds Ducks 194

10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2022

You will not find the Australian Wood Duck in the HBW, as they prefer the name Maned Duck for it. The Australasian Figbird is a member of the Oriole family despite not being yellow. Indeed, it seems Australian members of the oriole family are not fond of yellow, as demonstrated by this Olive-backed Oriole. Female below.

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Australia Koalas Parrots Birds 231

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 21, 2012

Occasionally it would duck as the camera shutter clicked, but apart from that it seemed quite unconcerned. They are placed in the Cisticolidae family which has representatives throughout the Old World and whose Christmas get-togethers also include the eponymous Cisticolas, the Apalises (Apali?)

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Asia Africa Ducks Family 166

10,000 Birds

APRIL 17, 2011

Previously we had hundreds of Plumed Whistling-Ducks , but the remaining ducks were very few. Those that had stayed had bred, though and there are a few family groups. Plumed Whistling-Duck and Black-fronted Dotterel We have had Yellow Wagtail present recently and they run along the rock walls chasing insects.

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Feral Ducks Dogs Family 150

10,000 Birds

MAY 9, 2024

Back when I was a kid growing up in California’s San Mateo County in the 60s and 70s, my family would occasionally drive 45 minutes west and south to Bean Hollow State Beach. and my first member of the auk/puffin family. Little did I imagine that someday I would live much of my life in that same Spanish language.

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California Sea Lions Marine Life Puffins 233

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Many birds around the world in the Robin family ( Turdidae ) are favorites due to their musical songs. The quail, guans, ducks and pheasant are hunted for their meat. A three generation family in Choluteca checking out a Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl in their backyard Better yet. We will take charge of the prosecution.

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Honduras illegal Parrots Pets 202