10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

A thousand of our soldiers would be enough to subdue all Asia from Lake Baykal to the Himalayas … Here the exploits of Cortez can still be repeated.” Finally, the Azure-winged Magpie raises a hen-and-egg question: What was first, the color of the bird or the color of the Tibetan prayer flag?

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JULY 14, 2018

A female Common Cuckoo Cuculus canorus will have taken an egg from the warblers’ clutch and replaced it with her own. But when a dragonfly was offered, everything went quiet (for all you oders, it was a Blue Dasher Brachydiplex chalybea, a libellulidae common across much of Asia. Slightly tangy, I’m told ).

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DECEMBER 12, 2019

Fraser`s Hill in peninsular Malaysia is another one of these almost legendary birding locations in Southeast Asia. Want to see a bird shaped like an egg? Birding Fraser`s Hil. And the birding is somewhat easier here as long as you do not make the mistake of reading some of the older bird guides. Pygmy Cupwing. Meet Mr. and Ms.

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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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10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2022

I do not get too many comments on my blog posts, but it seems that whenever I write about jacanas – whether in Africa, Australia, or Asia – there is an unusually high number of reactions (well, maybe one or two rather than the usual zero) from female readers. This is ok as birds do not have teeth anyway).

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Most readers here will be familiar with the plight of the Spoon-billed Sandpiper , a critically endangered wader that nests on the Russian tundra and winters in Southeast Asia. Said team of experts brought along a video camera. Saving the Spoon-billed Sandpiper is the result.

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AUGUST 18, 2022

It also seems the species is good at keeping its nest hidden – while the bird was named in 1821, its nest and eggs were only discovered in 1958 ( source ). According to the HBW, “only female incubates and cares for young … [while] males leave during [the] incubation period” Right on, sharpies!

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2022

Like a bad boyfriend not changing into nicer clothes for an evening out, the Brown-cheeked Fulvetta gets chided on eBird for not making any efforts: “an unapologetically drab and unmarked fulvetta” The Chestnut-headed Bee-eater apparently digs nest-burrows in which to lay its eggs. “It is not deep enough yet!

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AUGUST 24, 2016

The Common Gallinule , is the most wide spread of all the members of the rail family, being found from Canada, to Chile, Europe, Asia, Africa, much of the Pacific, and the Galapagos Islands. These birds have been known to be prolific breeders, with as many as 8 broods a year, and each clutch holding from 5-13 eggs.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2013

But, getting the nest set up, amorous acitivites, the laying and hatching of the egg, all that, happens earlier. The bird flu, in Asia, has been out of the news but that’s just because the news ignores anything that happens for more than three days in a row that is not an election. But individual birds are not migrating sooner.

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JULY 20, 2014

We have seen them on remote beaches hunting shorebirds and taking their eggs and they have been responsible for much of the egg loss in breeding Pied Oystercatchers along the Broome coast. Feral cat predation on Pied Oystercatcher eggs. They are incredibly cunning and not easily trapped. Rock Doves in Broome.

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DECEMBER 2, 2014

Kinabalu (at 13,455 feet the highest peak in southeast Asia), and human development that has resulted in freshwater rice fields, secondary forest, and oil palm plantations, this means that Borneo offers an incredibly high degree of biodiversity. Borneo, the authors say, is under-birded. I think we need to do something about that.

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MARCH 11, 2011

With a hardiness that belies their delicate looks (but helps explain their phenomenal success), these pioneering pigeons are already sitting on eggs at at least one location in Montana. They are very common in Central Asia, which is very roughly comparable to the prairies.

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JULY 22, 2014

That was a wild cat, a wild Wildcat, the cat that lives in the wild because that is where it is from and where it belongs, at the southern end of its pan-African range that extended at one time well into Europe and Asia. Read what you want about the origin of domestic cats; the genetic evidence is not properly sampled. Plus, Coyotes eat Cats.

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MARCH 13, 2011

Speaking of pregnant snakes, do sea snakes lay their eggs ashore like sea turtles or do they keep them internally until the young are ready to hatch/ be born, like some sharks? These do lay eggs on land and are (reasonably) mobile once they hit the beach. It seems like there is great diversity in this continent.

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JULY 26, 2024

The Common Swift , Apus apus , is the most widespread of all the world’s 114 swift species, breeding throughout much of Europe and far into Asia, and wintering in sub-Saharan Africa May is the quietest month, as the returning birds soon get down to the urgent business of breeding.

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JUNE 24, 2024

Habitat: Range and Distribution : Sunbirds : Found across Africa, the Middle East, and parts of Southeast Asia, inhabiting a variety of environments including forests, savannas, gardens, and shrublands. ” And why not.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Of course, it is hard to resist looking at a paper titled “Host personality predicts cuckoo egg rejection in Daurian redstarts” Basically, the personality of a female redstart (bold or shy) predicts the responses to parasitic eggs – bold hosts are more likely to reject parasitic eggs.

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JANUARY 9, 2023

The Bar-backed Partridge is a species of partridge found in southwestern China and Southeast Asia. Another, somewhat more interesting study suggests that nest sanitation (ornithologists speak for cleaning up your room) helps Common Tailorbirds to recognize and eject parasitic eggs.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

The population that nests in the western reaches of North America’s Arctic will cover about twice that distance, through Asia and down in to Africa. Anywhere from 3-8 very pale blue eggs are laid, incubated by both parents. The male takes flight showing off that white rump that helps identify it, even from a distance. .

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OCTOBER 30, 2011

They often call with a whooping bugle trumpet sound in flight and the sound is similar to a Channel-billed Cuckoo , which are returning to the Broome area from Asia to breed. The Channel-billed Cuckoos will be placing their eggs into other birds’ nests-most likely Torresian Crows.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Take a medium-sized stork, then imagine placing a fried egg over each of its eyes. Color the white of the egg yellow and the yellow of the egg dark red, and you get a close approximation of what Storm’s Stork looks like. Theodor Hugo Storm (1850-1927), a German mariner who later emigrated to the USA (source: HBW).

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JULY 4, 2023

From Hiro, we learn how Northern Pygmy Owls are “rule breakers,” not incubating eggs till all are hatched and then raising owlets that mature at the same rate even though the eggs were laid asynchronously (as most owl eggs are).

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AUGUST 7, 2023

Indeed, most cuckoo eggs are accepted by the babax ( source ), although a small proportion of hosts reject cuckoo eggs and often boast about this capability when having a few too many drinks. He spent the years from 1836 to 1858 in Asia, first in Indonesia, then in China, partly as the consul of the city of Hamburg in China.

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OCTOBER 30, 2023

If the male’s color fades after the first egg, the female reacts by laying a smaller second egg – seemingly deciding that it is better to cut her losses as the male apparently is the avian equivalent of a deadbeat father. At Sepilok, it can be hard to avoid taking photos of some non-birds, such as primates.

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MARCH 20, 2023

Elliot’s Laughingthrush is named after Daniel Giraud Elliot (1835 – 1915), an American ornithologist who apparently did not really do anything related to laughingthrushes and/or Asia but was rich. Maybe that was enough. At least he did not have a book titled “The Art of the Deal” ghostwritten for him.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Henderson, 2015, Texas A&M University Press) and Nests, Eggs, and Nestlings of North American Birds: Second Edition (co-authored with Colin J. Barker and Carrol L. Harrison, 2005, PUP). Despite waterfowl’s popularity with nature lovers, there has up to now been no comprehensive guide to the swans, geese, and ducks of North America.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2022

A paper titled “Crested Goshawk Accipiter trivirgatus may adapt well to life in urban areas across its range in Asia” already made the same observation in 2018. Apparently, after a male first mates with a female, he throws out the first one or two eggs she lays in their nest. but they do. See the sequence below.

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