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JULY 20, 2014

In Australia we definitely have our fair share of invasive species and the main problem is that we are such a huge land mass with such a small population. The population of Australia is concentrated mainly around the city areas along the coast and many invasive species have been able to spread with ease.

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OCTOBER 9, 2016

Although I have written about this small resident shorebird breeding in the past I have now been able to obtain photographs of it maintaining egg temperature on very hot and dry days. We sat down and only a few moments later one of the pair of Black-fronted Dotterels walked towards us and hovered over two eggs!

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AUGUST 27, 2023

The photo below shows the actual nest with the eggs in, but that may not be initially clear to you, so I have underlined them in a copy of the photo below. Eggs in a Pied Oystercatcher nest I always walk by briefly to confirm the number of eggs, but it is very rarely more than two eggs in Broome. I suppose they know me!

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NOVEMBER 27, 2022

In Australia there are three populations of Little Tern. There are Little Terns that breed across the north of Australia, Little Terns that breed on the coast of eastern and south-eastern Australia and another population that visit at this time of year from Asia.

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JULY 4, 2021

In another year when time stands still when you are not allowed to move freely around Australia or overseas some things happen like clockwork. Well, not quite like clockwork, because this year one pair of Pied Oystercatchers on Cable Beach laid their first clutch of eggs a bit earlier than normal. Pied Oystercatchers feeding alone.

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OCTOBER 18, 2020

We are lucky in Western Australia that we can move around our own state. We can’t move around the rest of Australia or go overseas, but keeping everyone safe is a priority. So much has happened in the world in their absence from Australia. There has been no community transmitted coronavirus for many months.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

Our current travel restrictions in Western Australia allow us to roam around our own state. In the header photo and below you can see the adult is shading three eggs. Comb-crested Jacana shading three eggs. There was an egg that had floated off and it was not clear if it could be saved.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

The breeding season started early this year with the first eggs laid at the end of May. This pair of Pied Oystercatchers have incubated two clutches of eggs and had chicks for a few days on both occasions. The eggs hatched out this week and the tides are very big, so there is a huge expanse of sand when the tide goes out.

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AUGUST 20, 2023

Earlier this year when we first observed Comb-crested Jacanas close to Broome they had just arrived from further north in Australia. The male Comb-crested Jacana builds the nest, incubates the eggs and cares for the young. We have observed nests in the past further north.

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JUNE 6, 2021

They are widespread throughout Australia , but it does not mean you necessarily easily observe them. By the size of the juvenile birds the adults must have laid the eggs several months ago when the rains came to that area of Western Australia. That was our first Yellow-billed Spoonbill for 2021, so that was exciting in itself.

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MARCH 13, 2011

Carpet Shark washed up Carpet shark being returned to the sea I hope you have enjoyed this little insight into our varied wildlife here in the north of Australia. 8 Responses to “Sea Snakes of Northern Australia&# tai haku Mar 13th, 2011 at 8:15 am Awesome post Clare. I loved your post, I have to visit Australia someday.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Hooded Plovers are only found in the south of Australia and they are not abundant in any location. There are two populations and our last encounter was in the south of Western Australia almost two years ago. I soon noticed the shallow nest scrape, but there were not any eggs in it yet. Hooded Plover nest scrape.

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JUNE 7, 2020

We don’t know how many eggs were originally laid due to the height of the nest. Whistling Kites are widespread across Australia and around Broome they help clean up the carrion along with the Black Kites. We have been keeping an eye on a Whistling Kite nest that is very high up in a tree. Whistling Kite nest high in the tree.

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JULY 7, 2022

According to a bird guide published in 1911, “Competent authorities have proposed to divide the world, biologically, into two parts – Australia and the rest of the world, and they have considered Australia the more interesting part.” ” (quoted from Tim Low’s book “The Origin of Song”).

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JULY 18, 2021

Sadly they were not successful with their first clutch of eggs, but are busily making nest scrapes again. We are hopeful that soon they will have laid another clutch of eggs. Since then we have had the two pairs of Pied Oystercatchers that breed between the Surf Club and Gantheaume Point lay their first clutch of eggs.

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APRIL 25, 2022

It has been more than 5 years since I last went to Australia, and I was even less of a qualified bird photographer then than I am now. All photos were taken in Australia in December 2016 – locations included Brisbane and surroundings, Alice Springs, Ayers Rock, Melbourne, and the coast near Melbourne.

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JUNE 21, 2020

We normally encounter our first Pied Oystercatcher nest with eggs in it around the first week of July. In 2016 one pair of Pied Oystercatchers laid an egg early on June 11th. This year one pair of Pied Oystercatchers had their first egg on June 12th. The first egg laid. Pied Oystercatcher nest with two eggs.

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AUGUST 1, 2021

We have often suspected that the Sand Goannas would steal eggs as a food source from the Pied Oystercatcher nests if they found them. The two pairs should have been close to hatching their eggs from their first clutch. The pair of Pied Oystercatchers to the north have now laid a second clutch of two more eggs.

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AUGUST 2, 2020

We had been patiently awaiting the arrival of the two chicks since the eggs were laid a month ago. I took a few photos of the chick that had hatched out and the remaining egg. The egg had a clear hole in the upper right where the egg tooth was breaking through the shell. Chick and egg at the nest site.

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JULY 31, 2022

Since I found the first Pied Oystercatcher nest on Cable Beach in July 2000 I have learnt that the eggs rarely hatch due to predation and if they do hatch then a fully fledged chick is a rare and wonderful outcome. This year has been like other years with the first eggs being laid late June and the first chicks hatching recently.

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AUGUST 13, 2023

Red-capped Plover nest We have mostly observed Red-capped Plover nests with two eggs, so she may well have laid another egg by now. The area was extremely exposed and at risk of being stood on or run over by a vehicle.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

Every year we observe both egg and chick loss amongst our Pied Oystercatcher pairs along Cable Beach and also in Roebuck Bay during their breeding season. The breeding season starts around the end of June and there are still eggs being laid and chicks hatching, but now these are the second clutches of eggs.

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AUGUST 29, 2022

” He continues to describe how the introduction of sheep to Australia affected both the Aborigines and the Long-billed Corella : “They once ate murnong, a daisy whose tubers sustained Aboriginal people, until the sheep of the squatters grubbed it up, bringing ‘deprivation, abuses and miseries’, as one missionary wrote. .”

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FEBRUARY 9, 2014

Over the past few months we have had a variety of Cuckoos calling and looking for a mate and the sound of any Cuckoo in Australia is completely different to the European Cuckoo. The Cuckoos in Australia call shrilly and in a frantic descending or ascending call and often you will only hear the variety of species and not actually observe them.

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JULY 17, 2022

Birdlife Australia mentions on their website that the female Mistletoebird builds the nest and incubates, but they will both feed the young. Mistletoebird egg incubation is about 10-12 days and then there will be a further 15 days when the young will remain in the nest. It appears he has a role as a guard, but not as a builder!

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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 egg.

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JULY 21, 2022

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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FEBRUARY 9, 2021

.” His classes attracted diverse groups of students, often with little scientific background: “Students have to first pass biology, but most come in knowing next to nothing about birds except that they can fly, that they have feathers, and that they lay eggs.”. and from Australia. I got about 50 email responses.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

They may be about bird eggs ( The Most Perfect Thing: The Inside (and Outside) of a Bird’s Egg , 2016), or a 17th-century ornithologist ( Virtuoso by Nature: The Scientific Worlds of Francis Willughby, 2016), or How Bullfinches learn songs from humans ( The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology.

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APRIL 6, 2014

The breeding season in the north of Australia starts from about July 1st and there are often several attempts if the eggs fail, are lost or the chicks don’t survive. On July 1st 2007 an egg was laid by a Pied Oystercatcher that was known to be an adult in 2002 and had been banded in nearby Roebuck Bay. Hermit Crab in lid.

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JULY 14, 2013

The Pied Oystercatchers are predictable each year and have just laid their first eggs and the Red-capped Plovers already have young. In this situation we always stop immediately because the chicks or eggs may be a lot closer than you think. The bird is leading you away from its eggs or young and you should follow.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2014

There is egg predation, chick loss and sometimes possibly just some “bad parenting”! One pair of Pied Oystercatchers laid eggs the first year and did not appear to realise they were supposed to sit on them, but they have since learnt it is an essential part of rearing a chick and they have done so since.

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AUGUST 9, 2020

The female Red-capped Plover immediately returned to the nest to incubate her eggs. The male Red-capped Plover was nearby and they generally incubate the eggs at night. Red-capped Plovers usually lay two very small eggs and they also need incubating for around twenty eight days similar to the Pied Oystercatchers.

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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. Pied Oystercatchers always try and move away from the nest site as soon as possible once both eggs are hatched. Pied Oystercatcher family.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

The first eggs were laid in the first week of July, which is the case each year. The eggs take 28 days to hatch and it is then at least 35 days before the chicks are developed enough to fly and there have been problems with predation as in other years. Pied Oystercatcher sitting on eggs in the nudist area of Cable Beach.

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JULY 22, 2012

Feral cats are a huge problem in Australia and they do take a lot of the eggs. There are four pairs with eggs currently after the first pair lost their eggs, which they laid in the same location as last year. This pair laid a white egg last year on their second attempt in the exact same nest.

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AUGUST 25, 2019

We continue to have egg predation at many of the nest sites and chick loss, but one pair of Pied Oystercatchers is being successful in raising two chicks so far. There has never been two eggs hatch and two chicks survive for more than about ten days since we started to keep an eye on them in 2000.

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