Abandoning Breeding Eggs 
10,000 Birds
JULY 28, 2013
Especially the bird breeding season, which passes by at the blink of an eye. Most troubling for me, because I think of them as my birds, is the abandoned nesting attempt by a pair of Pacific Loons. This pair first appeared four years ago, and are amongst the most northerly known breeding Pacific Loons in North America.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 25, 2013
Native snails lay 20-50 eggs at a time during the spring. Exotic snails lay 300-500 eggs at a time, lay eggs throughout the year, and are more resistant to environmental changes. Eggs of the native apple snail (left), and the exotic apple snail (right). Snail Kites now favor these ponds and breed around them.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 10, 2024
Perhaps the most curious thing about the Great Spotted Cuckoo is its distribution, for it is both a non-breeding Palearctic migrant to Africa, and a trans-Africa migrant. According to The Birds of Africa Volume III , “In much of the tropics present throughout the year, with breeding and non-breeding birds usually indistinguishable”.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 16, 2020
The usual way to find an owl would be to listen to its territorial call in the breeding season (to listen and not to lure it – I oppose the playback ), but this species is even less vocal than most other owls. Egg-laying starts in late March to early April and they remain in the vicinity till early June.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 5, 2015
Egg harvesting to sell as food was intensive then, with thousands taken annually from the breeding colonies in Chile. Egg collection for local consumption still continues at lower scale. The initial decline in the Andean Flamingo’s population appears to have started as early as the mid 20th Century.
10,000 Birds
JULY 13, 2023
Due to heavy rains many clutches of Great Crested Grebes had failed, but we observed both nests with eggs (and left the area immediately) and adults with chicks, some of them piggy-backing their mothers.
10,000 Birds
MAY 25, 2022
We made the executive decision to abandon that trail and try another – one which proved incredibly fruitful. At the start of this new trail we accidentally flushed a White-tailed Nightjar that was sitting on a lone pink egg. Part of the flock of Laughing Gulls , all in fresh breeding plumage.
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