10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 9, 2021
In 2018, I read an article in Birding magazine by Jeff R. ” His classes attracted diverse groups of students, often with little scientific background: “Students have to first pass biology, but most come in knowing next to nothing about birds except that they can fly, that they have feathers, and that they lay eggs.”.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 7, 2020
It didn’t occur to me till I started reading The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird that there was also a possible threat to the eagle herself: poachers, who steal raptor eggs and chicks. McWilliam realizes he’s dealing someone special, a career falcon egg-thief.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 1, 2018
This year is the eighteenth year since we discovered our first Pied Oystercatcher nest on Cable Beach in Broome and it didn’t take us long to realise that they are not at all successful at raising young due to egg and chick predation. Each year we hope for anther success, but so far it has not happened. Pied Oystercatcher nest.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
A pair did lay infertile eggs in Iceland in 2018, but that’s about the only record I can find). Intriguingly, the population of Dark-bellied Brent Geese has also increased hugely during the same period, but the birds show no signs of colonising Europe, and there are hardly any records of them nesting away from the arctic tundra. (A
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 20, 2018
But a Bewick’s Wren did build a nest, which it promptly abandoned before laying any eggs. In fact, they have risen to become the most active Nest Watching group in New Mexico (regardless of species), contributing 77% of the state’s data in 2018.”. So, how many chicks hatched in my two boxes? Others had more luck.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 23, 2020
The best part was how this bird hung around until 2018 so I got to count it on two year lists for Queens! (2 316 – Northern Shrike , 11 November 2018: Spotted from one of my favorite birding locations, the platform at Fort Tilden, the shrike was an exciting find for the gang of birders shivering through a winter finch flight. .
10,000 Birds
JUNE 7, 2018
and after the road construction (June 2018). There is not a slightest trace of asphalt, nor the promised sewage ponds, which may be good for the two Little Ringed Plover families incubating their eggs at the site as we speak, but is far from good for the people living there. And that was the last I ever heard from the officials.
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