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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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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Zoos Elephants Tigers Ducks 248

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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 239

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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 299

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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 243

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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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North America Thailand Russia Ducks 247

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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 241

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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

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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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United States Turtles 2010 Birds 264

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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 329

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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 277

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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 250

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OCTOBER 26, 2018

To celebrate this minor listing milestone, I chose a 2015 Cabernet by Sand Point Family Vineyards of Acampo, California, whose logo is an adorable California Quail sitting on a swing (we can presumably eliminate the similar Gambel’s Quail by range here). Sand Point Family Vineyards: Cabernet Sauvignon 2015 (Lodi Appellation).

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2015 San Diego California Condor Family 113

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 240

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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 247

10,000 Birds

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

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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 206

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 224

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 246

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 233

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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 194

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

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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 Ducks Blackbirds 231

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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 Species 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 7, 2021

So I contacted him for the exact location, which turned out to be a beautiful 14-acre property that belongs to his family, and he kindly invited me over. But the Mexican Ducks say otherwise. Which it was! We didn’t manage to make it happen the first Monday, but on the 28th of June, we birded his property together.

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Barn Owls Owls Leopards Mexico 264

10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2024

Yes, I had seen the Marbled Ducks , the Ferruginous Ducks and no, I had not seen the White-headed Duck … What? With my quarry in the bag and some bonus ducks I drove on to Xábia. The next couple of days were more about family than birding. The next couple of days were more about family than birding.

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Spain Portugal Ducks Lions 219

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2013

Stretching over the water, big boughs dangled their flowers below, so a passerby literally had to duck their heads to avoid the bloom. Across the bridge, my eyes wandered from the white marble columns of the Memorial to a pair of ducks twenty or thirty feet from the edge of the path. Weather is weird.

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DC Washington Birds Geese 248

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 197

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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 246

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

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 259

10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2011

home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds / Bufflehead in Flight Bufflehead in Flight By Corey • March 13, 2011 • 8 comments Tweet Share Bufflehead are one of our most amusing ducks. Bufflehead are the smallest of North America’s diving ducks.

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2011 Ducks Deer Portland 150

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DECEMBER 2, 2020

That is because we receive so many extra species from up north, which can double the number of potential species in many of our most important avian families: Ducks, Hummingbirds, Wood Warblers, New World Sparrows, Tyrant Flycatchers, and many others. I went back to Las Mesas, just east of Morelia, a week ago.

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Game Lions Africa Mexico 226

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APRIL 5, 2022

It also summarizes the vagrancy status of every bird family in the whole wide world, which makes it fun to read as well as superbly educational. The Family Accounts are the fun part of the book. The Family Accounts are also a deeply informational, documented source of information for researchers.

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Compassion Birds Eagles Science 264

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 24, 2012

Primarily, Lapwings are an Old World family with over 20 species including Australasia’s Masked Lapwing , Asia’s Yellow-wattled Lapwing and the Red-wattled Lapwing of the Middle East. Masked Lapwing Africa is the spiritual home of the Vanellus family, boasting as many as 14 species including the abundant Crowned Lapwing.

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Brazil Protection Family Africa 182

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JANUARY 8, 2013

Here, thousands of Amur Falcons hunt for insects during the southern summer, Wattled Cranes and Denham’s Bustards may be seen, impressive Long-tailed Widowbirds display over the grasslands and the waterbodies are a haven to many hundreds of waterbirds, including Maccoa and White-backed Ducks. Photo by Adam Riley. Photo by Adam Riley.

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Lesotho Rats Africa Woodpeckers 225