2020 Eggs Family 
10,000 Birds
JULY 19, 2020
Our first Pied Oystercatcher eggs for this year’s breeding season were laid early and were due to hatch last weekend. This pair of Pied Oystercatchers never seems to have a problem with incubating their eggs. They take it in turns over the twenty eight days sitting or hovering over the eggs. Pied Oystercatcher and chick.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 11, 2020
On a rising tide the Pied Oystercatcher family soon found a good position to watch and wait until the reef was exposed once again. Pied Oystercatcher family at roost. The Pied Oystercatcher family will remain together for some time yet. They moved around a bit to get comfortable on the rocky outcrop.
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 3, 2020
But, unlike most books focused on a bird family, this one is organized geographically. Penguins are shown individually in groups, in dense colonies, within habitat (ice, rainforest, beach), swimming in the ocean, and doing things–nose to nose with an albatross, feeding a child, placing an egg on its foot, sliding down ice.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 3, 2023
I am puzzled as to why Gulls and Terns are almost passed over, with less than two pages of text devoted to a family description and only six species accounts (four gulls, two terns). Family follows family with no page break, making this section a little dense. Woodpeckers are a family of focus for Tuttle-Adams.
10,000 Birds
JULY 26, 2020
Following on from the sad loss of our first Pied Oystercatcher chick of 2020 the other eggs are now also hatching. Somehow the twenty eight days passed without the eggs being run over. We moved back and sat on the sand and watched the Pied Oystercatcher family. Pied Oystercatcher family. Pied Oystercatcher family.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 16, 2020
For a few years now, every time they visit their family here, he or they go with me to bird my favorite sites. I’m not sure what they think of 2020’s low water levels, but they looked happy! His wife, Fany, is also a biologist, and is from Morelia. That’s a lot of Northern Shovelers. Northern Pintail , female).
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
The “Owls and Albatrosses” chapter, for example, begins with Doug’s personal experiences observing of the nesting strategies of Malleefowl and a Moluccan Megapode, Australasian “chickens who lay their eggs in unusual ways and do not parent. And then we go back to the evolution of clutch size.
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