2018 Breeding Protection 
10,000 Birds
JULY 1, 2018
It is not unusual for only one Pied Oystercatcher chick to survive throughout the whole breeding season despite in excess of sixty eggs being laid by sixteen pairs. It is for this reason that there was not an update last year on Pied Oystercatchers breeding success , because there was not any. Nest site with a view. Eggs in the nest.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 3, 2019
My first criterion was that I observed it only once during the year 2018. They do not build nests, but occupy old nests of Rooks and breed colonially among them. Red-footed Falcon’s breeding range starts less than 50 mi north of here and I hope that some will choose to join a local rookery and stay.”.
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
The European Breeding Bird Atlas 2 makes interesting reading. Originally confined to the Arctic, breeding [of Barnacle Geese] is now confirmed throughout much of the Baltic coast S North Sea. A pair did lay infertile eggs in Iceland in 2018, but that’s about the only record I can find).
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.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 20, 2019
The Kerkini Lake National Park is my favourite birding area in the whole of the Balkans and while I’ve been here in April and again (migration), September (migration), October (coffee break), December and January (wintering), this was my first time in the breeding season, in May. But nowadays, they, too, breed here, about 20 pairs this year.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 9, 2023
One paper describes them breeding in a human settlement in abandoned clay jars. Another advantage to ballistic food transport is that the fruit seeds are protected from damage when they are swallowed whole. Now pairs of hornbills feed outside this correspondent’s window”.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 12, 2018
The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands are home to some of the largest assemblages of breeding seabirds in the United States. These islands and their surrounding waters are protected as part of the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument. Midway’s birds are also protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.
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