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Most troubling for me, because I think of them as my birds, is the abandoned nesting attempt by a pair of Pacific Loons. I could see from the road there was an egg in the nest and when a Glaucous Gull began circling the nest I expected one of the pair to lift from the lake and return to defend the nest. A different Glaucous Gull.
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Egg-laying starts in late March to early April and they remain in the vicinity till early June. For two good reasons always remember to keep your distance from the nest: to avoid the disturbance of birds and abandonment of the nest, but also because this is an aggressive owl known to strike human intruders in the face.
As you read the below timeline and see the below images, don’t ever forget the perils that walk hand-in-hand with human greed. The babies that hatched from these eggs were released on Florida’s east coast. The numbers are significant when one considers the low stranding incidences reported prior to 2010.
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You’re a mammal, so you might be tempted to use yourself as an example mammal, but humans are actually kind of bad examples of mammals, so perhaps we’ll use a well studied hoofed animal instead. It has been shown that courtship is negatively correlated with abandonment. Think about the difference between birds and mammals.
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