10,000 Birds

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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Geese Serbia Ukraine Estonia 200

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2012

Tree Swallows squabbled and hunted in the air overhead and spent time examining the numerous nest boxes erected for them. There were plenty of waterfowl around as well, including the trio of geese that spend every winter at Jamaica Bay, Snow Geese , Canada Geese , and Brant.

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New York Honduras Jamaica Geese 215

10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2012

Specials include birds like African Pygmy Geese, Racket-tailed Roller and Western Banded Snake-eagle. It is also home to the largest concentration of African Elephants on the planet and over 450 bird species. The diversity of birds here is so staggering that 300 species of birds have been recorded here in a single day.

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Botswana Lions Zebras Elephants 259

10,000 Birds

MAY 31, 2012

And if you have a small kid and are in the vicinity of some ducks and geese? The behavior could be especially disastrous for waterfowl, which are hunted by people, but less so for passerines, or perching birds, which regularly come into people’s bird feeders. Do you toss the bird your leftovers? Do you feed the birds then?

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Birds New York City Geese Fast Food 263

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Not only were they a common bird, they were a common bird nearshore; indigenous peoples hunted them up and down the coast. Aleutian Cackling Geese on Buldir Island, Alaska, where they made their final stand. With a six-figure population now, Cackling Geese are an abundant visitor the west coast and the Aleutians.

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Albatross Endangered Species Bald Eagle Alaska 253

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2014

More of a hunt? Being a birder redefines ones travel views and arrangements – unlike old churches, birding tourist attractions have wings and tend to use them, which makes locating them more of a game. Satisfying the most ancient need in one hunter-gatherer’s mind? To be fully aware of one’s environment, fully awake? To be… alive?

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Serbia Farming India Europe 260

10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2024

In April, when I recently visited, there are huge flocks of Snow Geese , with the occasional smaller groups of Canada Goose , Cacking Goose , and Greater White-Fronted Goose. Along the way, Marsh Wrens flitted in the cattails, Caspian Terns noisily passed overhead, and an Osprey hunted over the water.

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Washington Oregon Wildlife United States 246

10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2012

Like several of my favorite NWRs, this one was established as a haven for migratory birds, most notably waterfowl, during the bad old days when uncontrolled hunting and habitat loss had put the future of even species we now think of as common in doubt. A second pond held not only more of the same, but some American Coots and Canada Geese.

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Wildlife Montana Bald Eagle Geese 224

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2019

Activities such as hunting, fishing, and trapping are categorized as “consumptive” uses. In contrast, consumptive uses were minor: fishing accounted for 10 percent and hunting was just 4 percent. Even in these reports, however, the impact of birders is not calculated independently.

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Wildlife Maryland San Francisco Minnesota 279

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Commoner species include Bar-headed Geese , parakeets, shrikes, mynas and minivets. Once the private hunting preserve of the Maharaja of Bharatpur, this fabulous wetland gave us a list of over ninety species in a very relaxed day on a recent trip! Kaziranga has one of the densest populations of Bengal Tiger in India.

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India Wildlife Tigers Rhinoceros 260

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2012

It’s a mini-Africa Week at the moment on 10,000 Birds, with Adam talking about spectacular bee-eaters in his post and James discussing the diminutive African Pygmy-geese. Kibale National Park, in the west of the Central African nation of Uganda, is home to a 13 primate species, from Common Chimpanzees to bush-babies.

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Monkeys Uganda Primates Cameroon 198

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 10, 2019

There were already many Snow Geese (along with some Ross’s Geese) as well as countless ducks, primarily Northern Pintail. The weather was dreadful and there was a hunting event that made much of the refuge inaccessible for birding, but Okhlaoma no longer taunts me on my eBird profile page. FWS has a bird checklist.).

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Oklahoma Texas Dallas Wildlife 195

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

More than three million ducks and one million geese migrate to the Sacramento Valley every fall. million people were spending nearly $1 billion annually to hunt waterfowl. These wildlife refuges are literally essential for the survival of many migratory species of the Pacific Flyway. By 1985, approximately 3.2

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Sacramento Wildlife United States North America 228

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Here in New Zealand te only potential big tick would be a lost vagrant painted snipe, and we’ve already established that I don’t enjoy that kind of vagrant hunting. I’m fairly sure the only family I’m missing in Europe is the Wallcreeper (Tichodromadidae), assuming you don’t lump it with the nuthatches.

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Family Wombats Uganda Fiji 200

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2016

These refuges support huge numbers of swans, geese, ducks, cranes, and shorebirds as they hopscotch their way to breeding grounds in the north. But when taken as a whole, the impact of the Refuge System is truly profound, supporting population-level numbers of numerous bird species.

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Wildlife Grizzly Bear Puerto Rico United States 190

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 10, 2017

The reservoir offered Tufted Ducks , Eurasian Wigeon , Gadwall , Northern Shoveler , Common Pochard , Eurasian Teal , Eurasian Coots , Great Crested Grebes , Little Grebes , Canada Geese and Greylag Geese. Canada Geese. Birds at the edge of Covenham Reservoir. Common Pochard and two Eurasian Wigeon. Great Cormorants.

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Geese Canada Ducks Shelters 124

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Like many “wildlife areas” it is open to waterfowl hunting during the season. We stopped at the entrance to the wildlife area (see the sign above) where there is a small kiosk with bird lists and hunting regulations as well as maps of the facility.

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Wildlife Chipmunks Sparrows Blackbirds 113

10,000 Birds

APRIL 11, 2011

It was hunting around the edges of the West Pond of Jamaica Bay back at the beginning of March, a day that I saw both the individual in Queens and one in Brooklyn. Short-eared Owl – Finally, a bird that I saw! Snow Bunting – Yes! Turkey Vulture – Wow!

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Jamaica Owls 2010 New York City 194

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

It was almost a month ago that I wondered how many species of ducks, geese, and swans could be found in my home borough of Queens in a single day this winter if I really put forth the effort. If I could just find all three scoters, an eider, and a couple good geese I could make it to twenty-nine species! Gadwall at Baisley Pond Park.

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Geese Jamaica Ducks Barn Owls 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2018

Lema Ranch has several ponds and is always a great spot for waterfowl but I was surprised to find four Snow Geese on secluded pond! Of course, Lema Ranch is one of the locations of my bluebird trails, so I found several Western Bluebirds , including this female intensely hunting ground dwelling insects.

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2018 Bald Eagle Woodpeckers Turkey 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2024

Pinkfooted Geese in North Norfolk – winter visitors from Iceland My British list is, in fact, merely an East Anglian list, as I haven’t (so far) ventured out of the counties of Suffolk, Norfolk and Essex. I haven’t, for example, seen a Bewick’s Swan, though I have encountered a number of Whoopers, their bigger cousins.

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Spain Eagles North America Ducks 130

10,000 Birds

MAY 2, 2016

En route to our next stop we slowed down next to a park and spotted the now countable Egyptian Geese. Then he pointed out a Least Tern that came in to hunt for fish on the pond as if I would be assuaged with another bird that has “Least” in its name! Only one cuckoo?

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Florida Miami Birds Owls 178

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds / Sandhill Crane Hunt in Kentucky?! Sandhill Crane Hunt in Kentucky?! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public comment on a proposal to hunt sandhill cranes in Kentucky. Kentucky Dept.

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 263

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2014

The day before the marmot encounter, I spotted an American Robin on my lawn; the night before that, the distinctive sound of a small flock of Snow Geese sounded from the sky above my apartment, heading north. For yes, it is that time again. The one thing that a traditional nature documentary often lacks is real characters, to its detriment.

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Woodchucks Chipmunks Rodents Seals 259

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2011

A female red-tail may leave a nest to hunt for her two chicks and return to feed a rabbit to three chicks without noting an increase in the number of chicks a rehabber has placed there. The first few years for female ducks and geese are kind of practice rounds. Birds of prey look cool, but they can’t count.

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Fox Birds Raised Geese 266

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 27, 2016

It’s the boar hunting season. 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 ! We started from the village at, perhaps 50 m a.s.l.

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Greece Boars Woodpeckers Eagles 259

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2014

There were good numbers of Green Pygmy-geese, Comb-crested Jacana, Great and Intermediate Egrets, Magpie Geese and a family of Black-necked Storks. Magpie Geese and Black-necked Storks- juvenile on the right. Australian Pelican, Magpie Geese and Plumed Whistling-Ducks. Magpie Geese. Radjah Shelducks and Pied Heron.

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Geese Pelicans Ducks Hunting 207

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2016

The Lesser White-fronted Goose is not only rare in Serbia, but also overlooked among numerous Greater White-fronted Geese. This species’ population is suspected to have decreased rapidly, owing to levels of hunting on the staging and wintering grounds, and habitat deterioration (largely as a result of land cultivation).

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Serbia Montenegro Greece Bulgaria 203

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2020

Ubiquitous Egyptian Geese dabbled in the shallows while a diminutive Squacco Heron stood motionless in some tangled vegetation over the water. Drifting slower and looking closer, we observed a tiny Malachite Kingfisher hunting in the sheltered shallows. Squacco Heron. This tiny kingfisher thoroughly excited everyone on board.

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Kenya Fish Trinidad Eagles 222

10,000 Birds

MAY 22, 2022

You have to look carefully, because often there are Australasian Grebes and Green Pygmy-Geese amongst the ducks and lilies. The Magpie Geese have been known to breed in the area and sometimes you will observe them amongst the lilies, but sometimes they are perched in the trees at the end of the wetland. Ducks at Munkajarra Wetland.

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Geese Ducks Breeding Cattle 262

10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2015

Even without being on the water it was possible watch birds across the river, as evidenced by my lifer pair of African Pygmy Geese , which flew down the river and landed on the Namibian side. It’s even possible to count exactly the same bird for both country’s lists. In particular, there are lots of waterbirds.

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Botswana Lesotho Elephants Bald Eagle 162

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2018

American Kestrels, Cooper Hawks , and Northern Harriers also found the hunting here to their liking. A small group of Canada Geese fly over, and out in front of their formation was a pair of Sandhill Cranes. It got to within about 15 yards, calmly hunting for breakfast as it came. This was a first!

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Albuquerque New Mexico Mexico Sparrows 176

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2017

The skies were full of thousands of Greylag Geese , Pink-footed Geese , Barnacle Geese and Brent Geese on the move and in the shallow water there were already hundreds of Bar-tailed Godwits , Eurasian Oystercatchers , Dunlin and Eurasian Curlew. Thousands of Geese on the move on dusk. Eurasian Curlew.

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Seals Geese 2017 Ducks 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 17, 2016

These, however, were as wary as lawn geese. One of the rangers at the refuge had some photos showing an injury on the bird’s breast, likely from a gunshot wound as the refuge is a popular site for waterfowl hunting, including hunting the thousands of Tundra Swans in the area. The other birds took some doing to find.

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North Carolina Wounded Hunting Geese 170

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 18, 2012

The grassy areas were also patrolled by Laughing Kookaburras , which engaged in the typical watch and wait hunting methods of the kingfisher family, and the engaging Willie Wagtail. Rounding off the waterbirds were Australian Pelicans, Eurasian Coots , the iconic Black Swans and feral geese.

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New Zealand Ducks Australia Japan 217

10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2018

The causes were the usual reasons for island extinction—deforestation by both humans and invasive plants that crowded out native plants, hunting, and invasive rats, mongoose, monkeys, and, of course, feral cats. They have a hard enough time with Canada Geese. We know what those large flocks were like.

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Mauritius Stud Zoos Eggs 133

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2019

While the hunting of game with trained birds of prey can be a controversial topic among birders , falconry was a valuable early source of information on birds, and its history, culture, and imagery continue to fascinate bird lovers, as we shall see. Could this be the first “accipiter sp.” ” report in history?

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2015 Italy Falcons Europe 113