10,000 Birds
MARCH 20, 2014
Satisfying the most ancient need in one hunter-gatherer’s mind? More of a hunt? To be fully aware of one’s environment, fully awake? To be… alive? … Back to the Sakule fish farm – the area is about to become a new nature reserve soon.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 12, 2014
Joseph Chiera is a Masters student in Animal Behavior and Conservation at Hunter College in NYC and a “somewhat newbie” to birding. Barnacle Geese and their downy-grey cygnets were everywhere, grazing alongside picnickers and sunbathers. Still, I was glad to be able to snap some shots of these very special (at least to me) geese.
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 24, 2021
The forests are home to Kalij Pheasants , Crested Tree Swifts , Ashy Wood Swallows , owlets, woodpeckers, spider hunters, barbets and bulbuls, laughingthrushes and hornbills. Commoner species include Bar-headed Geese , parakeets, shrikes, mynas and minivets. The forests are also home to Asiatic Elephants and Capped Langur Monkeys.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 21, 2012
More than three million ducks and one million geese migrate to the Sacramento Valley every fall. As I quoted in my previous post on promoting a Federal Wildlife Conservation Stamp , by 2011 the number of hunters had grown to 13.7 In 1985, waterfowl populations had plummeted to record lows. million, according to the U.S.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 13, 2019
For example, Bosque del Apache NWR in New Mexico is renowned for its winter birding, featuring huge numbers of Sandhill Cranes and Snow Geese, among others. Unlike most of the other units in the study, however, most visits were from hunters.). (A number of these NWRs appear on my list of the Top 25 NWRs for Birding.).
10,000 Birds
JUNE 29, 2013
Joseph Chiera is a Masters student in Animal Behavior and Conservation at Hunter College in NYC and a “somewhat newbie” to birding. Still, there are plenty of other birds and animals to see along the way, including Glaucous and other gulls, geese, herds of sheep and Icelandic horses.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 26, 2024
A first-winter Red-breasted Goose at Cley, North Norfolk As a general rule, geese are birds of subtle, even dull, plumage. All the so-called grey geese – Greylag, Bean, White-front, Lesser White-front, Swan – look very much alike, and it takes experience to identify them by their calls and their shape and size.
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