10,000 Birds
JULY 4, 2021
This year the first clutch was laid at the end of May and this is the first time we have had eggs laid in May along Cable Beach since 2000. We have observed Pied Oystercatcher parents chase of White-bellied Sea-Eagles and unfortunately there are feral cats and feral foxes have become more prevalent too.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 23, 2015
Since discovering our first Pied Oystercatcher nest on Cable Beach in July 2000 we have observed the breeding of these local shorebirds along the coast between Gantheaume Point in the south and Willie Creek in the north, which is a distance of 23 kilometres. Feral cat prints at nest site-eggs gone.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 3, 2016
Traditionally since 2000 we have encountered our first Pied Oystercatcher eggs in the first week of July, but this year one pair have decided to start laying eggs early! I say “luck” because there is a problem with predation by feral cats and it really is beyond their control as it were.
10,000 Birds
JULY 29, 2018
There has been one successful clutch of three eggs since 2000 that we are aware of and that was in 2014. The animal is most likely a feral cat along that stretch of beach, but we also can’t discount a feral fox having encountered a dead one close to Broome recently. Pied Oystercatcher nest in the rocky sandstone.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2024
” California Condors are thriving now, mostly, but Osborn’s experiences in the early 2000’s were years of triumph and heartbreak. As of 2024, the ‘Alala are extinct in the wild though they live on in captivity. This is the chapter where Osborn talks about “second chances.”
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 19, 2014
I am certainly not complaining though, as a repetitive working routine that will lead to around 500 species a year is better than the working routine I had in the late 2000′s, where seeing more than 250 species a year would have been extraordinary. Feral Pigeon Columba livia f. domestica : Fournes, Provence, France, 1 Jan.
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