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And, in South America, there is at least one species that is being heavily preyed on by North American Minks which are not supposed to be in South America. Their natural range is in a smallish region of southern South America. Some of the lakes they breed on have been stocked with salmon and trout.

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AUGUST 31, 2011

All New World Quail are highly gregarious, typically found in coveys or flocks except during breeding season. In California, coveys break up and pairs begin forming in February or March, followed by nest building and egg laying in May or June. She will usually lay 12 to 17 eggs, averaging five per week 1 , before beginning incubation.

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California Gophers Rattlesnake Eggs 256

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JUNE 2, 2015

Third, observing and photographing breeding birds and their young have become acts of ethical confusion as birders, photographers, and organizational representatives debate the impact of our human presence on the nesting process. And of eggs and nests and birds on nests. Cedar Waxwings exchange berries, carry nesting material, eggs.

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Eggs Family 2006 New York 263

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AUGUST 14, 2013

They packed up in June of 2013 and headed south from San Diego with the southern tip of South America as their destination. The non-breeding distribution is virtually unknown, although they are suspected to winter in northern South America (Howell and Web 1995). Very little is known about this enigmatic species.

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South America San Diego Mexico America 218

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

While the native apple snail continued declining, another species of apple snail native to South America began to appear in canals and ponds in South Florida. 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.

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Florida South America Bolivia Eggs 246

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APRIL 10, 2013

All four major flyways in North America — the aerial migration routes traveled by billions of birds each year — converge in one spot in Canada’s boreal forest, the Peace-Athabasca Delta in northeastern Alberta. About three billion birds fly north to the Boreal Forest each spring to build nests and lay eggs. depend on the Boreal Forest.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

The Mourning Dove ( Zenaida macroura) is among the most abundant and widespread terrestrial birds endemic to North and Middle America. The nickel was placed in the nest for the photo to show me the size of the egg for identification purposes, then removed. References: 1 Birds of North America Online , 2 Droege, S.

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Hunters Hunting North America Game 200

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Male Phalaropes, Jacanas, Tinamous, and Rheas build nests, incubate the eggs and take care of the chicks. Perhaps the most complicated and bizarre mating system is that of the Rheas of South America. They live in flocks in the open country shrubland of Southern South America. Some of the eggs will be lost to the elements.

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South America Eggs Raised America 159

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JULY 17, 2012

Horned Larks breed widely over North America, including up here in the High Arctic. Here they are a common breeding bird, one of our two species that migrate from here to Europe and then south. At the same time (and sometime the same location) we have Semipalmated Plovers breeding, which makes identification a challenge.

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Eggs North America Breeding Europe 220

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I think most of us in North America have come to the somewhat disappointing conclusion that fall migration is pretty much finished for the year. We get to see a lot of them around here, and familiarity breeds, not contempt certainly, but perhaps apathy. You’re done. Look at those bright legs!

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JUNE 19, 2013

Even though the overall breeding range remains largely unchanged from that in the 1940′s, the entire coastal population has been in recent severe decline. The ecological requirements for Black Swifts to breed restrict them to a very limited supply of nesting locations. Photo from Wikipedia Commons taken by Terry Gray.

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OCTOBER 21, 2015

Heermann’s Gulls form large breeding colonies on arid islands in the Gulf of California, Mexico, from March through July. The largest colony exists on Isla Raza, where an estimated 90–95% of the total world population breeds 1. This photo by Basar from Wikipedia Commons shows the adult in breeding plumage. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUBX_tlHySc.

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San Francisco North America Seals Sanctuary 162

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

The Bank Swallow ( Riparia riparia ) is North America’s smallest swallow. These birds have lost more than half their global population, and the 33 species combined have lost hundreds of millions of breeding individuals in just the past 40 years. References: 1 Birds of North America Online.

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North America 2014 California America 205

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JUNE 18, 2014

The featured image above shows a female incubating eggs from my first resident breeding pair back in 2007. The four to six eggs are white and unmarked. It’s not as clear as the photo of the eggs above but I did not want to disturb the female as she was circling the nest to resume her duties.

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Eggs North America 2007 Woodpeckers 170

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The goal of Around the World For Penguins is simple: Describe the 18 species of penguin and their breeding grounds “from the perspective of a traveller.” Plantema gives highly detailed information about the weather, terrain, ownership of and access to the islands and coasts where penguins breed.

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Penguins Georgia Albatross New Zealand 279

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DECEMBER 18, 2014

One of the two sub-species of Red Knot occurring in North America, the Rufa subspecies breeds in the Canadian Artic Region and migrates along the east or Atlantic coast of the United States. The other sub-species, Calidris canutus roselaari , migrates along the Pacific Coast and breeds in Alaska and the Wrangel Island in Russia.

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Endangered Species Protection Delaware Species 160

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OCTOBER 8, 2015

Brown Pelicans in non-breeding plumage. The Brown Pelican occurs in both the Pacific and Atlantic coasts of North America and northern South America. Both are the only Pelican in their non-overlapping breeding grounds. Peruvian Pelican in non-breeding plumage. Brown Pelican in Breeding Plumage.

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Pelicans North America Peru Chile 157

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FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Within a group, 1–7 male co-breeders compete for matings with 1–3 joint-nesting females who lay their eggs in the same nest cavity. Groups may also contain up to 10 male and female non-breeding helpers, usually offspring of the group produced in prior years 1. References: 1 Birds of North America Online a.

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Woodpeckers Breeders North America Groups 196

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NOVEMBER 5, 2015

The Andean Flamingo ( Phoenicopterus andinus ) is one of the three flamingos occurring in the high Andes of South America. 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.

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Chile Endangered Species Eggs Argentina 156

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” The report continues: “Following the breeding season, most tricolors are found in the Sacramento Valley where they aggregate with red-winged and other blackbird species and feed, often in large flocks, on ripening rice. References: 1 Birds of North America Online.

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Blackbirds California 2014 Sacramento 207

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This entire cycle begins in early Spring when Western Bluebirds pair up for breeding. The female alone incubates the usual 4 to 6 eggs for about two weeks beginning the day the last egg is laid. v=V1bFr2SWP1I References: 1 Birds of North America Online a. i Kamakawiwo?ole’s ” Have a great Fourth of July!

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Washington Eggs Israel California 204

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AUGUST 27, 2015

Most birds use these ephemeral beaches as breeding grounds. They have adapted to breed during the dry season when sand bars are exposed and food is plenty. This results in all eggs and chicks being taken by the water and a failed nesting attempt. Pied Lapwing. Photo Credits: Amy McAndrews. Photo Credits: Kenneth Cole Schneider.

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South America Fish Breeding Eggs 174

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Kirtland’s Warbler is a classic niche species; they breed in only very specific conditions, which occur in only a very specific area. this species breeds. Fortunately, there were still a handful of immature birds alive at sea, and a few years later they were back on Toroshima breeding again. Santa Cruz Island, CA.

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Albatross Endangered Species Bald Eagle Alaska 243

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JANUARY 29, 2015

State and Federal Agencies feared that if these two large constrictor snakes are allowed to breed they would produce a hybrid super-python. Photo Credit: Invasive and Exotic Species of North America (www.invasive.org). I volunteered to help with the first python round up in 2010 when the first large African Pythons were captured.

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Pythons Florida Mammals Reptiles 204

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JULY 28, 2013

Especially the bird breeding season, which passes by at the blink of an eye. This pair first appeared four years ago, and are amongst the most northerly known breeding Pacific Loons in North America. However the night before last all hope was lost, the egg now gone, the birds still on the lake. A different Glaucous Gull.

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Abandon Abandonment Abandoning Eggs 180

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JUNE 20, 2012

Cliff Swallows migrate to North America from their wintering grounds in South America to nest in large colonies, sometimes numbering in the thousands. In addition to their homing tendency, breeding swallows are attracted to old nests. Completed nests during this breeding season cannot be touched without a permit from the U.S.

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San Diego illegal California South America 165

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JULY 23, 2014

In North America and the Caribbean, they are found mostly in suburban, urban, and agricultural areas where grain, roost, and nest sites are available. In warm climates they can breed year round. They usually lay two eggs per clutch and most often, successive clutches will be laid while adults are still attending fledglings!

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Breeders 2002 North America Bahamas 196

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JANUARY 22, 2012

Typically there are four eggs in a brood especially on good year. Once the eggs hatch the family begins the long walk down to the shoreline. Some of these birds, breeding up here at 73 degrees north will winter at the tip of South America, Tierra Del Fuego, 54 degrees south or so. This was a later nest.

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South America Eggs Family Raised 174

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Now, more than ever, they are an iconic piece of the birding landscape, for David Sibley’s “ The Sibley Field Guide to to Birds of Eastern North America ,” features none other than an American Goldfinch on the cover! Unlike many other songbirds, these goldfinches subsist entirely on a vegetarian, seed-based diet.

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New Jersey United States Legislature Iowa 150

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Being a westerner — raised in California, and now living in western Mexico — I was perhaps most excited about the migratory birds that breed in eastern North America. And then there was a Green Heron , not only showing us its nest, but also an egg. Then, around 4:00 p.m., And yet, there it was. But what could I do?

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Mexico Birds Raccoons Baltimore 240

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MARCH 31, 2014

The park is home to not one, not two, but large three colonies of breeding seabirds: the Brown Noddy , Magnificent Frigatebird , and Sooty Tern. As we looked closer, we saw the Sooty Terns nesting right on the ground itself, calling back and forth to each other as they sat on their speckled eggs. Lots and lots of birds.

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Its first flight will take it from its burrow, usually on the west coast of the United Kingdom, to the coast of South America, an extraordinary journey for an unaccompanied minor. Each year 120,000 birds visit the island to breed from March through August in burrows that riddle the landscape.

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United Kingdom Brazil Eggs Abandoning 167

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JUNE 3, 2020

Instead, they lay their eggs in other species’ nests, and let those nest-making birds (often significantly smaller than the cowbirds) raise their young. So that is a negative mark on both their records. In contrast, the Brown-headed Cowbird is a same-continent invasive species. This is a rather typical group size for Bronzed Cowbirds.

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Blackbirds Mexico Cattle Birds 170

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JULY 10, 2011

July, as all northern hemisphere birders appreciate, is the month when the egg timer flips and everything starts pouring back out again in a steady stream south. One of Britain’s recent colonisers the Mediterranean Gull begins to arrive in bigger numbers every year as post-breeding dispersal takes hold.

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Poland 2009 France Europe 157

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They are described as “hardy,” and “handle marginal diets and poor housing conditions better than other breeds and still continue to produce eggs.” ” Best of all, they lay between 150 and 200 eggs per year. They have a global breeding population of 20 million, and are just gorgeous.

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Rhode Island Oklahoma Chickens Minnesota 104

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MAY 30, 2019

It was advisable to remove them at night, to keep them calm, to establish immediately a feeding board on which they would be fed chopped beef and egg to start, then fresh birds, rabbit or squirrel. ” By 1970 the man who championed Peregrines had convinced Cornell University to build a Hawk Barn for captive breeding of these birds.

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Falcons California Condor Alaska Texas 211

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Europe has one species (Eurasian Spoonbill), the Americas have one (Roseate Spoonbill), Australia two (Royal and Yellow-billed Spoonbill), and Asia has two as well (Eurasian and Black-faced Spoonbill). Studies on improving ostrich egg hatchability. Also, I learned that in the US , ostrich eggs are priced at $40-$75.

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Ostriches Parrots Eggs Africa 147