10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

As you can easily judge from the dullness of this information, it is not something I made up but rather an appalling example of nepotism in the naming of birds. The breeding ecology of the Yellow-bellied Warbler was actually studied exactly here at Nonggang in 2019 by 3 Chinese researchers. Sir James McGrigor (1771-1858) Director Gen.

China 259

China Birds Pythons Eagles 259

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

The nickel was placed in the nest for the photo to show me the size of the egg for identification purposes, then removed. Even though the female lays only two eggs per nest attempt, they enjoy a protracted breeding season in which multiple nesting attempts can occur every 30 days, and in Southern locations, nearly year round.

Hunters 192

Hunters Hunting North America Game 192

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 23, 2015

Since discovering our first Pied Oystercatcher nest on Cable Beach in July 2000 we have observed the breeding of these local shorebirds along the coast between Gantheaume Point in the south and Willie Creek in the north, which is a distance of 23 kilometres.

Feral Cats 160

Feral Cats Eggs Feral Cats 160

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

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. Conservation organizations such as the Flamingo Specialist Group is actively trying to inform the public on the vulnerability of flamingos.

Chile 155

Chile Endangered Species Eggs Argentina 155

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2014

” 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. ” You can get more information on this declining species at the Tricolored Blackbird Portal.

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Blackbirds California 2014 Sacramento 200

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2012

They are not bound to wetlands the entire year and large groups of birds will disperse to dry grassland and savanna outside of the breeding season. This is worrying because paired birds generally only lay one egg and the breeding cycle can be very irregular. www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8-lZzV0Wck v=w8-lZzV0Wck a.

Botswana 176

Botswana South Africa Africa Ethiopia 176

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Breeding in Northern Japan and wintering in the Phillippines, some seem to take a migratory rest stop (and slight deviation) at the Shanghai coast. Hints of potential warming in the HBW species description: “Date of first egg-laying on Honshu now 7 days earlier than it was 25 years ago” There are also quite a few Cuckoos.

LACS 259

LACS Birds France Japan 259

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

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. You can find more information on the State of the Birds on their website [link]. But it’s fun trying to figure it out by observing their behavior.

North America 199

North America 2014 California America 199

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

The length of each bird species account varies, depending on whether the bird is native or a “visitor” (the book’s term for migrant) or vagrant, breeding or non breeding. They breed in dense colonies, incubate their single egg on the feet, and take more than a year to fledge a chick.

Georgia 177

Georgia Penguins Wildlife Whales 177

10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2012

In addition to their homing tendency, breeding swallows are attracted to old nests. It is illegal for any person to take, possess, transport, sell, or purchase them or their parts, such as feathers, nests, or eggs, without a permit. Completed nests during this breeding season cannot be touched without a permit from the U.S.

San Diego 165

San Diego illegal California South America 165

10,000 Birds

MAY 26, 2024

Birders flock to this haven, as it is a sanctuary for over 150,000 breeding Northern Gannets , making it the world’s largest colony. The island is teeming with so many birds that their eggs and young chicks were once harvested for food. Something I love about birding is the readily available sharing of information.

Puffins 198

Puffins Sanctuary Lamb Investigation 198

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

They breed in colonies scattered around the Antarctic continent (the number ranges from 60 to 70, and as Kooyman points out, the colonies can drastically change in size from year to year) on the ice (and one of the things I learned from this book is how many different kinds of ice there is in the Antarctic) in the darkest months of winter.

Penguins 186

Penguins Seals Leopards Mammals 186

10,000 Birds

JULY 16, 2012

Some might contest this, saying that Dr. Seuss’s Horton Hatches An Egg precedes Eastman’s book by twenty years. But since Horton is an elephant, and since the creature that hatches from the egg is an elephant-bird, I’m going to wait till 10,000 Birds does a Hybrid Bird Week before discussing this representative of the Seussiverse.

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Switzerland Birds Owls Lions 243

10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2022

At the start of this new trail we accidentally flushed a White-tailed Nightjar that was sitting on a lone pink egg. Part of the flock of Laughing Gulls , all in fresh breeding plumage. We made the executive decision to abandon that trail and try another – one which proved incredibly fruitful.

Trinidad 262

Trinidad Woodpeckers Ducks Abandon 262

10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2019

Today, we know a little more, such as the fact that an eagle couple produces one egg every two years, but numbers remain low, too low. And, he tells us about the time he was attacked by a parent Philippine Eagle as he handled an egg at the nest, hundreds of feet above the ground. This film could not be made without them.

Eagles 203

Eagles Philippines Eggs Monkeys 203

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2013

The story of the cahow, a “Lazurus species” that was thought to be extinct for over 300 years and then discovered to be breeding on a tiny remote island in Bermuda, is part of modern birding legend. In 1951, there were 18 breeding pairs of cahows discovered on three tiny islands.

Rats 184

Rats Breeding Birds 2012 184

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2012

As a Northeast birder I am familiar with the alarming decrease in the number of Red Knots along Atlantic shores and have signed petitions and written e-mails calling for legislation and rules that will limit the overharvesting of the horseshoe crab, whose eggs Red Knots depend on. The visual beauty and textual facts are a strong combination.

Delaware 195

Delaware New Jersey Eggs Research 195

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

How loyal are the thrushes to a particular location when they are not breeding? There was no breeding behaviour evident amongst the thrushes on any of the 4 sightings over a 4-week spread from the last week of August to the last week of September, though other species were gearing up for the season, with a Southern Lapwing seen on eggs.

Eggs 113

Eggs Breeding Species Birds 113

10,000 Birds

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.

Poland 157

Poland 2009 France Europe 157

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2022

If instead, you are looking for more specific information on how to do eye surgery of the Wompoo Fruit Dove , I suggest you check out “The Journal of Avian Medicine and Surgery”, which should be available at your local newsstand. But you will certainly like the Wompoo Fruit Dove. I am sure Elvis liked it. ” ( source ).

Australia 147

Australia Parrots Birds Memphis 147

10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2016

A letter requesting information on the permit issued to remove the nest got this response from the city, “In reference to your request for documentation for the removal of an active Osprey nest from the light pole at the soccer field, please be advised that none exist. This is a poor photo I took of this pair’s nest back in 2009.

Transported 103

Transported Eggs Killing 2009 103

10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2011

We discovered another juvenile not far away, so other species have had their eggs swapped out. There is very little information on this species of bird and it is believed that there are only 1500 in Australia. There have been reports of them breeding in the 1960′s near Derby, which is over 200kms away.

Australia 150

Australia Investigation Falcons Eggs 150

10,000 Birds

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.

Australia 157

Australia Species Feral Cats Feral 157

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Photo by [Clairity]([link] I have no new information or insights to offer you here; as far as I know this issue has been addressed in a number of places including this very interesting if not very current blog post by John Trapp. We know from a lot of other case studies that switching around the carnivores in a region (i.e.,

Cats 205

Cats Boston Ferrets Killing 205

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

We have had a very poor breeding season for our resident shorebirds and in particular none of the 16 pairs of Pied Oystercatchers along the 23 kilometre/14 miles stretch of coast that we keep an eye on have successfully bred. All of the migratory shorebirds had started to leave Broome and it appeared it had also gone north.

Eggs 103

Eggs Whales Whaling Breeding 103

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In the non-breeding season, male Baya Weavers sometimes enter the basket-making trade, often with considerable success. Meanwhile, the females seem to have a much more relaxing life, at least in this early stage of the breeding season. You can see why here. Anyway, below is the female, and here are two videos.

Sri Lanka 242

Sri Lanka Taiwan Birds Cats 242

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2024

She explains complex and sometimes controversial topics including captive breeding, environmental toxins, feral cats and other invasive predators, Hawaiian avian extinction, avian disease, California Condor distribution and history, legal loopholes, and lead poisoning. It’s a subject that can easily veer into preachiness and depression.

California Condor 166

California Condor Falcons California Coyotes 166

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 2, 2014

This is evident in the introductory material, which includes sections on The Origin and Evolution of Borneo’s Birds, Conservation in Action, Vegetation and Bird Life in Borneo, Climate, Rainfall and Bird Breeding Seasons, and Bird Migration. The plates show differing plumages as required by the individual families and species.

Brunei 190

Brunei Asia Birds China 190

4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 8, 2012

This may be because there were no males to mate with, or she did not have any eggs fertilized. If you have no intention of breeding your dog, the best and most responsible thing to do is have her spayed. The exact cause of false pregnancies is not entirely understood.

Dogs 100

Dogs Spay Spaying Puppies 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

The amount of information varies, with less material on vagrants and rare species, and extended entries on notable species. Even during the breeding season the birds appear to be quite unwary of humans. Colors are subtle and bright, distinctive details are evident, and birds on each plate are sized comparatively.

Trinidad 225

Trinidad South America Birds 2011 225

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2023

If you want to see photos of all 8 of them, there is a nice one-page leaflet online which is also the source of some of the information below. Another paper reviews information on Oriental Pied Hornbills raiding the nests of various bird species in Singapore and even pet bird cages. A good reason to come back soon then, I guess.

Rhinoceros 143

Rhinoceros Singapore Transported Hunting 143

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2018

Scientists were largely limited to studies birds in breeding colonies, at least those we knew about and that were accessible (and, if you think that’s a complete list, you haven’t read the news that came out this week about a new colony of Adélie penguins found in the Danger Islands, Antarctica). Technology to the rescue!

Albatross 115

Albatross Penguins Research Breeding 115

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

How many eggs did a pigeon lay? He reasons out answers to both questions, finally stating that, despite what many eyewitnesses wrote, the birds had to have laid more than one egg and that the birds had to have nested more than once a breeding season. Or the destruction of the forests, food source and breeding grounds.

2014 164

2014 Killing Michigan Kentucky 164

10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2023

During the breeding season, some Cattle Egrets look like teenage girls who have just discovered the existence of make-up, and consequently massively overdo it. The Journal “Advances in Ophthalmology & Visual System” is not a regular source for bird-related information. It is probably all downhill from here.

Birds 130

Birds Cattle Raised Mammals 130

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2013

A breeding bird atlas is a special kind of book. For the nature lovers and birders who participate in breeding bird surveys, the atlas represents hours, often hundreds of hours, of volunteer time spent within a community of citizen scientists doing what they love, observing birds. So, what exactly does a breeding bird atlas contain?

Pennsylvania 253

Pennsylvania Breeding Sparrows Birds 253

10,000 Birds

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.

Eggs 263

Eggs 2006 Family New York 263

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

In some cases, for example Jabiru, the information is tucked away at the end and can’t even be discerned from the range map. Yes, it’s nice to have information on 817 birds, and it’s wonderful to have full descriptions and photographs of birds commonly seen in Central and South America. SPECIES ACCOUNTS.

North America 279

North America America California Condor Birds 279