10,000 Birds

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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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

ELs are fat around the waist, their weight is more pronounced towards the front end, and when you raise your fingers, letting ELs rest only against your thumbs, they start falling down, front end first. And when you raise your fingers, well balanced NLs happily rest against your thumbs, not falling to either side.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 11, 2016

As a birder, this 72 minute documentary film about the Duck Stamp Contest didn’t accomplish what I was hoping it might – get people excited about the Duck Stamp, or at least wildlife conservation. That being said, in preparation of opening day judging of the Duck Stamp Contest, the judges were informed of the contest rules.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 21, 2016

In 2015 a Federal Duck Stamp Task Force was convened under the auspices of the Association of Fish & Wildlife Agencies (AFWA) consisting of seventeen individuals. b) Recommendation : Work with all groups to identify synergistic opportunities for promoting broad conservation benefits of the Duck Stamp. 1) Action : U.S.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 31, 2012

And if you have a small kid and are in the vicinity of some ducks and geese? Let’s take the issues raised in the sign above one by one and figure out how serious each issue is. Also, if lots of ducks and geese gather in a spot where they don’t normally the amount of bird poop could certainly be a problem.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Swifts and swallows are notoriously hard to raise and/or rehabilitate, so rehabbers who don’t specialize in them tend to lose their heads when they’re successful. said Leslie, who successfully raised five of them last summer. It’s fun to try and clean cages and feed babies with a duck attached to your shoulder.”. “I

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10,000 Birds

JULY 25, 2012

Nice weather, as they say, for ducks. It’s relatively small as ducks go, and certainly doesn’t have stunning plumage, but it is fairly attractive and has a distinctive white ring around the eye which helps distinguish it from the closely related Chestnut Teal of Australia.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 11, 2015

There were no garden ponds, fountains or any other water sources there and to this day I have no clue what a wagtail was doing there (I also know that it raised an eyebrow in suspicion of my ID, but there are no other similar species around).

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2016

Today is the United Nations World Wildlife Day, a time to celebrate and raise awareness of the living world around us. Raising and lowering its head, like stretching. Actually, when I started to bird, my second ever duck, after the Mallard, was a Ruddy Shelduck! The closer one raises her head, than lies back.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2013

Wood Ducks don’t stand a chance in this yard because the wrens typically get to them first. Here’s the inside of a Wood Duck box that has been wrenned. Here’s the inside of a Wood Duck box that has been wrenned. A pair of wrens actually raised some young in this box. Birds nesting wrens'

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2021

The Red-shouldered Hawks , the quick flapping Accipiters and the legions of blackbirds and ducks moved through the cool airs of March and April but the orioles, grosbeaks, and wood-warblers wouldn’t show up until the trees had their buds and many had their leaves. At some sites, flocks of 30, even 60 or more birds are expected.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2015

The closer one raises her head, than lies back. The Little Egret walks in front of her, a dozen Lesser Whistling Ducks flies noisily low above water and through a flooded grass wades one Black-winged Stilt. Telia yawns, raises and sprays her urine on a dead tree stump, marking her territory. These are my first wild tigers ever!

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2021

Local highlights are Otters and White-tailed Eagles , easily spotted Little Bitterns , and the most successful Mute Swan pair in the city (commonly raising 8 grey fluffy chicks each year), Ferruginous Duck , European Turtle-Dove , Whiskered Tern , Black Stork , Pygmy Cormorant and Syrian Woodpecker , among the 150 locally recorded bird species (120 (..)

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Owls and eagles and ducks and hummingbirds and parrots and woodpeckers are all things that a regular nonbirding joe or jane can, with time and a few color photographs, see the appeal of. a sea gull.''” Of course, that raises an important question – what is the most interesting gull in the world?

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Chickens come in at around 24, pigeons have around 40-50 and some duck species may have a whopping 400. Aptly called the tube-nosed birds, on account of their raised and highly visible nostrils, these species are able to hone in on oceanic food from several miles away, based on smell alone. Ducks are the avian leaders of bill touch.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

And fun and food are, I’d submit, not enough reason to fell a bird in which only one in three pairs manages to raise a single chick each season; a bird that has captured the imagination and hearts of tens of thousands of people, whose sonorous purr floats down from on high like the voice of a pterosaur. Thank you for your efforts.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Kerkini does, of course, attract tremendous numbers of wintering wildfowl, including huge numbers of Common Pochard , by far the most numerous of the diving ducks. There’s always good numbers of all the surface-feeding ducks that you would expect, from Pintail to Eurasian Wigeon. Both Bewick’s and Whooper Swans occur in good numbers.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

However, you can’t come to this small Central American country to see the following birds because they are gone: White-faced Whistling-duck : Yes, this cool looking duck used to build nests, breed, and dabble around the wetlands of Costa Rica and this is why you will see it illustrated in Stiles and Skutch.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

A curious Laysan Duck takes a stroll at Midway Atoll. Laysan Ducks don’t seem to be as tied to water as other ducks, which makes sense considering the limited habitat available. Although Laysan Duck is a Hawaiian bird, most birders have never heard of it. That would have been awful. home at Midway Atoll.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

It was therefore an absolute thrill when I heard the news that biologists from The Peregrine Fund, whilst surveying for endangered Madagascar Harriers in November 2006, had discovered a small population of these diving ducks at a very remote crater lake 330km north of Lake Aloatra!

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10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2012

Wood Duck ( Aix sponsa ) Female Incubating Eggs in a Nest Box “Many species of cavity-nesting birds have declined because of habitat reduction. The wood duck was very scarce in many portions of its range, at least in part, for the same reason and probably owes its present status to provision of nest boxes and protection from overhunting 1.”

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 24, 2024

In our early birding days, Erik and I had one of our most hilarious bird-related fights while looking at a flotilla of ducks in Mission Bay yelling at each other about field marks before realizing we were looking at two different ducks. Whether you want a short walk or a longer hike, San Elijo Wetland can offer that.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2012

Ferret 492 — a black-footed ferret, Mustela nigripes — raises her head from a black-tailed prairie dog’s burrow, sniffs the April night. The ferret raises her head again — up periscope — and hesitates. She looks at us, then ducks down, then back up, as we draw closer.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2013

It is built to reach out into the water when the dam is full and is reached along a raised walkway, screened from the mammals, reptiles and birds that may be roosting, resting, feeding, drinking or waiting in ambush close by.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 28, 2014

Egyptian Vultures raised is isolation used rocks to crack eggs presented to them. Interestingly some of these ponds are favored by these herons for foraging and have ducks that are fed by people. This is similar to the fact that all birds, even first time breeders within a species build identical nests. The behavior was inherent.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

I was eager to see if our winter ducks and shorebirds had arrived. That suits our winter ducks just fine, except when this part of the lake dries up completely, as it does in some dry years. That suits our winter ducks just fine, except when this part of the lake dries up completely, as it does in some dry years.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 21, 2013

So if you come to Spring Wings, and you’d be well served if you do, get ready to see lots and lots of shorebirds and ducks and waders. The specials for our dinner at The Slanted Porch in Fallon included dishes prepared from cows and lambs raised by local 4-H Club kids.). (The town is actually nicknamed “The Oasis of Nevada.”)

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 30, 2011

At the speed the team was moving, I could barely raise my bins before everyone was back in the van. 1/4000sec @ ISO 2000 Long-tailed Duck was the “star” of the Galveston FeatherFest , and a write-in for the Great Texas Birding Classic. Long-billed Curlew was on the sand at Bolivar flats with Marbled Godwits and assorted shorebirds.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2024

Being a westerner — raised in California, and now living in western Mexico — I was perhaps most excited about the migratory birds that breed in eastern North America. Like the previous park, there were no ducks, coots, or grebes to be seen. Then, around 4:00 p.m.,

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 27, 2017

Is Belgrade the New Berlin is a question recently raised in Vogue by Marry Holland. 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. eBird checklist. Main eBird checklist.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2011

Very few kids just take to birding like ducks to water (terrible pun I know!). This book explains how we are all at risk of raising kids with nature deficit disorder. I’ve also included a few resources for those of you that might be inclined to invest in birding resources for your kids. 10 TIPS TO GET YOUR KIDS INTO BIRDING 1.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 13, 2022

The Asian Koel is a cuckoo species and thus freed from the obligation to raise its own chicks (though the birds like to refer to themselves as brood parasites, which sounds a bit less obviously selfish). Lesser Whistling Ducks are “not threatened by hunting as they are not considered good to eat” ( Wikipedia ). Lucky ducks.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

As we passed by a small body of water a couple of Apolinar’s Wrens ( Cistothorus apolinari ) skittered in between the stalks of grass and one of them even sort of displayed on top of a small plant with its tail raised high up. Our next stop was at the Laguna de Los Tunjos, one of many freshwater lakes in the park. Ah, what the heck!

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

While this allows for the delightful prospect of Thanksgivingakkah, with attendant turkey dreidels and whatnot, it does raise certain perennial questions of the nature of time itself, as applied to birding. Rosh Hashanah, the New Year of the Jewish calendar, has come relatively early season-wise this year.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

For non-chef readers, if there are any, turducken consists of a deboned chicken stuffed into a deboned duck, which is then stuffed into a deboned turkey. I had never heard of turducken, and was filled with apprehension as I googled it.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

The researchers flew a quiet quadcopter drone more than 200 times at different angles and speeds near populations of semi-captive mallard ducks, wild flamingos, and common greenshanks — watching the birds for signs of stress, such as head or tail movements or flying away. So far, there aren’t any reports of bird deaths caused by drones.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

It was decreed a national symbol of Honduras on 28 June 1993 by the National Congress of Honduras as a way to raise awareness of the varied avifauna of Honduras. By Corey • March 18, 2011 • 1 comment Tweet Share The national bird of Honduras is the Scarlet Macaw. Community conservation – valuing what’s around us.Or

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