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Most of the Osprey breeding in North America are migratory, only Florida, the Caribbean and Baja California host non-migratory breeders 1. References: 1 Birds of North America Online … A fish may love a bird, but where would they live? This pair copulated several times while I was observing.
They are a colonial breeder, nesting only in western Alaska, on a narrow band of coastal sedge meadows 2. References: 1 Friends of the Arcata Marsh , 2 Birds of North America Online a. Among the several species we did see on the jetty however, is the Black Turnston e ( Arenaria melanocephala ). Click on photos for full sized images.
Most Acorn Woodpeckers are cooperative breeders and live in family groups of up to a dozen or more individuals. 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. References: 1 Birds of North America Online a.
In the case of Acorn Woodpeckers, they are cooperative breeders (as with many other polygynandrous species), which seems to predispose species to polygynandry. Alpine Accentors, on the other hand, are not cooperative breeders and females typically have very little to do with each other. Do you know of any references for this?
Probably one of the most interesting things about these little birds is that they are cooperative breeders. References: 1 Birds of North America Online. If you have good ears you can hear them as they call to each other. Their nest is a 6 to 12 inch elongated pendulous structure with an entrance to one side of the top.
The American Robin is the largest of the North American thrushes, and are the root source of the “early bird gets the worm” quote, which references their proclivity for yanking worms out of the ground. Robins are prolific breeders, capable of producing not one, not two, but three broods in one summer season.
I am on a chat for Mexican birders, and one of their latest running jokes has to do with a Clay-colored Thrush (all too common on Mexico’s eastern coast) which, during our quarantine, has been dubbed “Wilson” by one of our Veracruz birders, in a reference to Tom Hanks’ volleyball “friend” in Castaway.
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.” (Note to those readers who do not know Wham!: ” ( source ). .”
He interviews breeders about rumors of raptor trafficking and egg smuggling, activities that have supposedly been stopped. Hammer specifically refers to Chlamydotis undulata , Houbara or African Bustard, but I think he is writing about Chlamydotis macqueenii, MacQueen’s Bustard, formerly a subspecies of Houbara Bustard.
Quite recently, it has started to expand inland, along the river Rhone and to the South of Germany, where it is now an uncommon but conspicious breeder. A different form ( atlantis ) which may or may not constitute a separate species, is found on the Azores, Fuerteventura, and the Canary Islands.
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At least they seem to understand that raising chicks is hard and annoying work and have found at least a partial solution for this problem: “co-operative breeder, up to four individuals attending chicks at one nest, at least three seen to feed chicks” (HBW).
The Mourning Dove is a prolific breeder. References: 1 Birds of North America Online , 2 Droege, S. She found the nest under the windshield wiper of her vehicle that was parked in her garage. The nickel was placed in the nest for the photo to show me the size of the egg for identification purposes, then removed.
The species is a cooperative breeder – birds other than the parents help feed the chicks. Army’s Chemical Corps during the Vietnam War, a reference to their use of defoliants like Agent Orange to remove forest cover and crops used by the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces.
Previously known as the Whale-headed Stork, its scientific name of Balaeniceps rex translates as “King Whalehead”, in reference to its giant whale or shoe-shaped head and bill. Satellite tracking has shown that these individuals migrate northwards through South and into East Africa during the winter months.
The first three sections are brief, presenting a summary of the bird’s current NYC status (migrant, resident, breeder, vagrant, etc.), and historical status as described in specific ornithological writings by John Bull, Allen Cruickshank, Ludlow Griscom, E. Eaton, and John Kuerzi.
According to the winemakers there, hoopoes (a summertime breeder in Spain) are commonly encountered along the paths through the vineyard. In Portuguese, the name vinho verde literally means “green wine”, a reference not to its color but to the relative youth in which these wines are sold and enjoyed.
Which, when you do the math, means that the guide covers all resident and migrant Breeders, birds that “Occur Year Round”, regular migrants, and then some. The Introduction cites a separate source for abundance numbers in Ireland, but I didn’t see any reference to it in the species accounts.)
Being referred to as a raven parent is grim, because this is a rather strong insult paired with a damning judgement of your parental qualities. An animal’s blood is referred to as Schweiss, which means sweat. This explains why alternatively, such people would be referred to as having a tit (straight face), a member of the Paridae.
The Latin name swinhoii is a reference to Robert Swinhoe, a British naturalist and diplomat with the usual shortish but colorful life of many of the colonial managers. But then, I am not a cooperative breeder either (nor a non-cooperative one, should this term exist). Participated in the opium wars, died of syphilis, etc.
The Ashy Tailorbird is a good example of the different perspectives of describing a bird – while the English name focuses on the body of the bird, the Latin species name ruficeps refers to the rufous head. Viewer discretion is advised, particularly if you look at the paper in the company of Ashy Tailorbird chicks.
To be honest, both the robin and the flycatchers shown above remind me of the easter eggs I hunted for as a child – the same strong colors in front of a green background, same time of the year (feel free to insert your own Proust Madeleine reference here) … Bluethroats apparently are good at imitating other birds.
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