Breeders Collecting Eggs 
10,000 Birds
MARCH 11, 2024
This laughingthrush is a cooperative breeder – nestlings are fed by all members of a group, often 6-12 (not just 2 as in Wham!): “A female may share a nest with another, and 3 or more adults may take turns incubating the eggs and feeding the chicks.” ” ( source ).
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
The Indochinese Green Magpie is one of four species of green magpie (it used to be only three, but one of the subspecies collected enough frequent flier miles to get an upgrade to full species). Altruism, fortunately not of the Sam Bankman-Fried variety, though probably not very effective either.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 25, 2022
However, the lockdown forces me to go deeper and deeper into my photo collection, if I want to write anything at all. 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. And that seems to be the only vaguely satisfying thing left to do at the moment.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 7, 2020
It didn’t occur to me till I started reading The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird that there was also a possible threat to the eagle herself: poachers, who steal raptor eggs and chicks. McWilliam realizes he’s dealing someone special, a career falcon egg-thief.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 22, 2024
When not climbing, he collected species, and thus a number of birds are named after him. The Borneo-endemic Chestnut-crested Yuhina is a cooperative breeder – the vast majority of breeding pairs (97%) in a study conducted here at Mount Kinabalu had helpers. This is a very bad photo of a Fruithunter.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 18, 2014
In the former, a female lays her fertilized egg in the nest of another species, in the hopes that her offspring will be raised by the unwitting hosts. ii) cooperative breeders may be more obvious targets as a result of the increased activity of helpers near the nest.
10,000 Birds
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. And it also comes as a video and yet another video. And now for something completely different.
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