10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2022

In my imagination, the job of a male Australian Brush Turkey is pretty similar – removing or adding bits and pieces to his pile of rotting vegetation in order to get the right temperature to incubate the eggs buried underneath to hatch. It breeds in tree holes, presumably explaining the more commonly used name for it.

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Australia Koalas Parrots Birds 223

10,000 Birds

JULY 23, 2014

The following maps I created on eBird show the dramatic growth in the spread of the Eurasian Collared-Dove from 2002 to 2014. In warm climates they can breed year round. They usually lay two eggs per clutch and most often, successive clutches will be laid while adults are still attending fledglings!

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Breeders 2002 North America Bahamas 190

10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2024

A section in the Appendix, “Rare Shorebird Vagrants,” lists 16 additional species that do not show up annually in North America but who have more than ten records; the list notes where the species breed and where their vagrant paths have taken them within North American borders.

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North America America 2006 Delaware 264

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 27, 2023

As I sit at my desk writing this post about the latest attempt at breeding for one of our pairs of Pied Oystercatchers I realise I have written 677 posts now for this website. The photo below shows the actual nest with the eggs in, but that may not be initially clear to you, so I have underlined them in a copy of the photo below.

Eggs 130

Eggs Australia Protection 2000 130

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Three books will have been published about the Passenger Pigeon by the end of 2014: A Feathered River Across the Sky: The Passenger Pigeon’s Flight to Extinction by Joel Greenberg, The Passenger Pigeon by Errol Fuller, and A Message From Martha: The Extinction of the Passenger Pigeon and Its Relevance Today by Mark Avery.

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2014 Killing Michigan Kentucky 164

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 2, 2014

This is evident in the introductory material, which includes sections on The Origin and Evolution of Borneo’s Birds, Conservation in Action, Vegetation and Bird Life in Borneo, Climate, Rainfall and Bird Breeding Seasons, and Bird Migration. Press, March 2014; UK: John Beaufoy Publishing Ltd; 2014. 372 pages, 8.3

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Brunei Asia Birds China 190

10,000 Birds

MAY 17, 2024

This was the first time Bee-eaters had nested in Britain since 2014 (the first-ever successful nesting in Britain was in Sussex in 1955). Bee-eaters are ground nesters, laying their eggs in tunnels that they excavate, making them vulnerable to ground predators like Weasels).

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Greece Investigation 2014 Breeding 130

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2015

Third, observing and photographing breeding birds and their young have become acts of ethical confusion as birders, photographers, and organizational representatives debate the impact of our human presence on the nesting process. And of eggs and nests and birds on nests. Cedar Waxwings exchange berries, carry nesting material, eggs.

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Eggs 2006 Family New York 263

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

There are sections, ranging in length from a paragraph to two pages, on taxonomy, bird names, habitat, ranges, migration, courtship and breeding, flight, bird intelligence, bird communication; identification; finding birds, life lists; optics and photography; ethics; bird feeding; and conservation. New York Times, March 11, 1996.

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North America America California Condor Birds 279

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2022

The Wryneck is full of stunning photos of Wrynecks–anting, flying, nesting, writhing, being ringed, their habitat areas, nests, eggs, and closeups of museum specimens. copyright © 2022 Gerard Gorman. Many photographic images are full or half-page, allowing us to enjoy the elegance or weirdness of the image.

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Woodpeckers Hungary Thailand Europe 261

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 4, 2015

Of course I then had to continue and so once again in 2013 I joined others in listing for the year and have just completed the third year in 2014. Firstly I would like to just do a little update on the Pied Oystercatcher family that were a large part of my life for the last few weeks of 2014.

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2015 2014 Ducks Ponies 210

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2015

Chapters on taxonomy, distribution, anatomy and morphology, habitat, behavior, breeding, plumage and moult, food and foraging, flight, calls, drumming, and conservation follow. Firefly Books, 2014; 528 pages, 6.2 They are curiously linked to both fertility and destruction, associated with the reveler Pan and the god of war, Mars.

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Woodpeckers 2002 Europe Philippines 262

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2023

One interesting paper argues that contrary to what might seem logical, cuckoos do not aim to lay eggs specifically into the nests of those parrotbills whose egg color and pattern match their own. The rationale includes the speed of the laying (too fast to check for color matches) and the low number of egg-laying attempts (i.e.,

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Pandas Eggs Birds China 243

10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2018

The Zoo episode focuses on two Pink Pigeon couples: The Stud and Serendipity, a male and female that the zoo people hope will mate and produce a viable egg, and Thelma and Louise, a same-sex pair-bonded couple who the zoo people hope will incubate the egg and nurture the chick. On the WCS web page, Ms. Passenger Pigeons, for example.

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Mauritius Stud Zoos Eggs 105

10,000 Birds

JULY 12, 2020

A few weeks ago I introduced you to the first pair of Pied Oystercatchers to start to breed this year. We have to hope that vehicles stop driving beyond the high tide mark and that the eggs hatch out in twenty eight days’ time. The nest site has been used in previous years and if it fails they will lay a second clutch of eggs.

Eggs 162

Eggs Turtles Protection 2014 162

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2019

Peterson Reference Guide to Sparrows of North America covers 61 species of the New World sparrow family Passerellidae that breed in Canada, the United States, and northern Mexico. And, the 1996 volume includes information on nests and eggs, a topic not covered by the Peterson guide. Range and Geographic Variation. by Rick Wright.

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North America Sparrows America United States 177

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

.” It is a relief to eventually reach the chapter on The Life of Waterfowl, written in a much more conversational style and unashamedly fascinated with waterfowl’s unique breeding behaviors. Harrison, 2005, PUP).

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Ducks Geese North America Hunters 139