Friday Feathered Feature

Lesser Scaup

Lesser Scaup

Looking into research on Lesser Scaup, I came across numerous articles about diet, lipid stores, and reproductive output. All highly cited, and most published within the last twenty years. As it turns out, Scaup remain a bit of a mystery, despite all of this research.

Photo by Mick Thompson

High Counts of Waterfowl at Goose Pond

High Counts of Waterfowl at Goose Pond

We thought it would be interesting to look at the high counts for the 36 species of waterfowl (ducks, geese, and swans) on our Goose Pond bird list. There have been 3,500 checklists from Goose Pond entered on eBird, and about 1 in a 100 checklists included a high count of waterfowl.

Photo by Monica Hall

Wood Duck

Wood Duck

The Wood Duck is one of the great conservation success stories in the United States. By the turn of the 20th century, market hunting and habitat destruction saw the Wood Duck on the brink of extinction. The Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 came just in the nick of time.

Photo by Jim Hudgins / USFWS

 
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