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MARCH 23, 2011

There are about 2,000 Snow Geese currently fattening up in and around Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge and a Ross’s Goose is little more than a diminutive Snow Goose. Finding it in the constantly relocating flocks of Snow Geese would be like finding a small needle in a needle-stack made up of constantly moving, slightly bigger needles.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 30, 2012

They are upping the bag limit to try to keep Canada Geese in check.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 31, 2020

Glengoyne’s understated logo shows a simple silhouette of two standing geese facing one another, rendered either in silver or gold depending on the bottling – a nod to the distillery’s name, which means “the valley of the geese” in Gaelic. Gäss ( Geese ) (1922) by Swedish painter Bruno Liljefors (1860-1939).

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NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Vermont’s Dead Creek Wildlife Management Area was the first place I saw huge numbers of Snow Geese so I was pleased to stumble across this post on VTDigger and see that the birds are still showing up there. If you live in northern New York or Vermont it is well worth a visit!

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AUGUST 27, 2018

On the other hand, the Canada Geese have both safety in numbers and famously aggressive personalities. Cranes and geese weren’t alone – the 5000+ acres of the reserve are known for avian life, from Eastern Kingbirds and Eastern Bluebirds to Eastern Meadowlarks and Red-headed Woodpeckers.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Here in Suffolk we now have impressive wintering flocks of Barnacle Geese, often numbering 1000 birds or more. The purist birders take little interest in them, regarding them as no more interesting, or exciting, than the flocks of Canada Geese that have long been established in the county. It’s spectacular stuff.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2017

Early in the Wet Season we had noticed the arrival of unusually high numbers of Magpie Geese and they are a species that don’t always make it to the Broome area if it is not a wet year. It did seem highly probable that the Magpie Geese would breed in the area this year. Ten young Magpie Geese with parents.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 9, 2014

discovered that the usual flock of several thousand Pink-footed Geese was wintering in the Broads National Park. Two Common Snipes , one Brown Hare and… geese! More than fifty, but… Bean Geese , elegant birds with very dark heads and a bit like their pink-footed relatives. Pink-footed Geese (c) Wikipedia Commons.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2013

It made sense to search Edgemere Landfill for a Ross’s Goose because of the thousands of Snow Geese that spent a large portion of their winter there, feeding on the abundant vegetation. Snow Geese at Edgemere in January. Snow Geese at Edgemere in February. … Trips Edgemere geese Queens rarities Ross''s Goose'

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 14, 2015

The distribution of color morphs is unequal in the Snow Goose population, with the maximum number of blue-morph geese occurring in mid-continent breeding and wintering areas 1. I photographed these blue morph Snow Geese at Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge where I saw quite a few, including this juvenile (below). v=DYNb-0vYTE8.

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4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 30, 2013

Ducks and geese may not be a particularly unusual sight in the wild, but have you ever thought about keeping them as pets? Ducks and geese make excellent pets because it is interesting to watch them as they go about their activities and engage with their environment. They can make excellent, if slightly quirky, pets.

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4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 30, 2013

Ducks and geese may not be a particularly unusual sight in the wild, but have you ever thought about keeping them as pets? Ducks and geese make excellent pets because it is interesting to watch them as they go about their activities and engage with their environment. They can make excellent, if slightly quirky, pets.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2019

But the geese didn’t care, going about their business surrounded by dozens of species from around the globe. The Canada Geese (on the right side) show no fear. Canada Geese are known for being versatile and adaptable birds. The post The Amusing Case of the Gulf Breeze Zoo Canada Geese appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

First Greylag Geese , Gadwall , both Caspian and Yellow-legged Gulls appear, together with dozens of Pygmy Cormorants and one Eurasian Sparrowhawk. It is an important migration stopover site and wintering area that attracts the largest congregations of waterbirds anywhere in the country, up to 80,000 during cold spells – half of them geese.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2016

At the snowy Danube riverbank, we are waiting for geese to come to their roost inside the mostly submerged island. A shot or two coming from the opposite bank, but they do not sound like geese shooting – more like boar hunting. warns me of two locally rare Bean Geese. An hour and 20,000+ geese later, we head back.

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APRIL 11, 2014

As I mentioned before, Freezeout means Snow Geese , and lots of them. But like any aspect of migration, the lots-of-Snow-Geese phenomenon is ephemeral and to some degree unpredictable, occuring earlier one year, later the next, and then gone as the geese head north to make more geese or south to wait out the winter.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2024

As the tide fell, it exposed sand banks that attracted small parties of garrulous Brent Geese. A party of Dark-bellied Brent Geese , winter visitors from Siberia Brent are abundant along the Norfolk coast, invariably proclaiming their presence with their guttural chattering, so unlike the higher-pitched calls of the Pinkfeet.

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JANUARY 17, 2019

A Great Egret , a few Pygmy Cormorants and, by the middle of the Danube, about a hundred Greylag Geese. Two hundred yards further, the first Common Goldeneye and Smew started to appear and, while counting Smew and geese, a Great Bittern took flight from one stand of reeds to another, right in front of us.

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DECEMBER 11, 2011

The highlight of the early winter period for many over here has been an unusually large influx of Greater White-fronted Geese along the full span of the East Coast before penetrating further west and inland over the past 2-3 weeks.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Lars Svensson’s accompanying text explains “a rather puzzling fact is that, among wildfowl, hybrids appear to occur more commonly among geese and members of the ‘pochards’, genus Aythya , than among dabbling ducks. Many years ago a friend of mine kept a small but varied collection of ducks and geese. The reason for this is not clear.”

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2014

For all that, though, migration here is still largely a water-based show, with the most spectacular signs of springs coming in the forms of ducks, geese, and swans. Several locations in the state, most notably Freezeout Lake, are graced with epic spring migrations of Snow Geese and Tundra Swans as they return north along the Pacific Flyway.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2014

He was pleased to see several hundred Snow Geese at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. There are few things nicer than a big ol’ flock of Snow Geese! Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was actually a pretty common bird most winters in Queens, though this year they mostly went further south. How about you?

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

Near the sand dunes, the first “V” made out of a hundred or so Greater White-fronted Geese , They spend the night on the water and in the morning they spread over arable fields to forage; but most of them do so at the crack of dawn and these 100 must have overslept.

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DECEMBER 21, 2011

Every autumn, tens of thousands of Snow Geese arrive in California’s Sacramento Valley following their long journey from the Canadian Arctic (click on photos for full sized images). Snow and Ross’s Geese winter there in the tens of thousands. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeCKWKGhgR8

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Aleutian Cackling Geese on Buldir Island, Alaska, where they made their final stand. Aleutian Cackling Geese are another bird very familiar with the Pacific; they are the only species of goose that nest on Alaska’s remote Aleutian Islands. is on a boat in the Aleutian chain. However, their fortunes had once turned for the worst.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2012

OK so not a duck, but geese are also chandelier makers of the highest order. Sometimes even these graceful creatures get it wrong. When a foot digs in the result is often comical. I love the water chandeliers they make when they plop into the water from a nearby ledge! And for good measure a Western Grebe just beginning to submerge.

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JUNE 6, 2024

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.

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JANUARY 1, 2012

The local flock of geese (mostly Pink-footed, Swan Goose) is not “countable” while the Egyptian Geese and Ruddy Shelducks that occasionally turn up are. Yes, the Egyptian Geese there are countable. , and the White Storks are also wild and countable despite breeding at the zoo.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Greylag Geese. Soon I hit the brakes for a 60 strong flock of Greylag Geese of the Siberian race rubrirostris grazing near the road. Leaving the lake and driving up the mountains once more, at the top pass I was greeted by an eye-level trumpeting flock of Greylag Geese heading in the direction I had come from. Practicalities.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Queen of Spain Fritillary , photographed in mid November Clouded yellow – another common November butterfly For the autumn or winter visitor, the biggest draw is the flock of Lesser Whitefronted Geese that in recent years have been regular and reliable wintering birds on the lake.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2022

Vagrant migrants that have made their way onto the Costa Rica bird list have included a surprise Northern Mockingbird from the Caribbean coast, a Couch’s Kingbird identified by its distinctive call (which was also recorded), and a group of five adventurous Greater White-fronted Geese !

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Already the birding world is excited by the host of Snowy Owls that have descended upon the United States and Snow Buntings and Snow Geese have been around for weeks. More to the point of this post, however, was the flock of Snow Geese and the single Snowy Egret that we found.

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MARCH 19, 2023

There are still many Egrets and the Magpie Geese are all on the move with their young. Last Sunday afternoon we travelled out of town to once again bird from our vehicle across the flooded highway across Roebuck Plains. The number of Pied Herons in the area varies from two to twenty four at the moment.

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OCTOBER 27, 2016

We are approaching a large mudbar with some more Dalmatian Pelicans… and a flock of geese… dark, round-headed and short-billed, elongated white blaze on their faces – threatened and declining Lesser White-fronted Geese ! Should I add, a lifer, too.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2024

There were plenty of birds on the water to keep me entertained, with close to 60 Greylag geese, 50 Canada Geese, 80 Wigeon, 250 Coots, plus a good assortment of Tufted Ducks, Gadwall, Shoveler and Mallard. Not really a hardship, but it made the count less enjoyable. I arrived, equipped with my telescope, long before dusk.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2011

This leaves Harlequin Duck and Greater White-fronted Goose as the two waterfowl most likely to be added to my Queens list next – a list that now includes thirty-seven ducks and geese, by the way. What is really frustrating is at how slow a rate my Queens list is growing.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

So many sexy snow birds pop up this time of year: Snow Buntings , Snow Geese , Snowy Owls … But if you’re like me, you couldn’t get out to see them this weekend. Too much snow! Between work and shoveling, I had no chance to get out birding.

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