Breeding Eggs News 
10,000 Birds
JULY 4, 2021
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. This year the first clutch was laid at the end of May and this is the first time we have had eggs laid in May along Cable Beach since 2000. However, the news was very sad.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 15, 2016
It’s a bang-up breeding year for super-endangered birds! The species, which migrates from the Russian Arctic to Southeast Asia, is down to about 200 breeding pairs in the wild, due to habitat loss and poaching. For the past several years, getting the birds to breed has been an exercise in futility. Both photos by the WWT).
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 11, 2020
Non-breeding Pied Oystercatchers join flocks either to the north or south of Gantheaume Point. They do not attempt to breed for about seven years. There are still newly laid clutches of Pied Oystercatcher eggs on the northern section of Cable Beach , so there is hope still of more survivals.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 20, 2013
Also, Grebes share two characteristics that end up being bad news given the state of the planet we are in. Some of the lakes they breed on have been stocked with salmon and trout. And, the Mink are capable of wiping out large portions of a breeding colony in a short period.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 2, 2024
The falcons’ low-point was 1963, when only three breeding pairs were known in southern England, and only 13% of Welsh eyries were occupied. Peregrines don’t build nests of their own, but do like to make a scrape in which they can lay their eggs. The peregrine’s comeback was due to protection and the birds’ own powers of recovery.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 25, 2019
It has been a few years since I could share some good news about the Pied Oystercatchers breeding along the coast near Broome. Hopefully you won’t mind me writing a bit more this year about Pied Oystercatchers during the breeding season! The two eggs normally hatch at least a day apart and sometimes longer.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 19, 2013
The breeding season is longer, starts earlier. But, getting the nest set up, amorous acitivites, the laying and hatching of the egg, all that, happens earlier. “Many long-distance migrants arrive so late on the breeding grounds that they have little opportunity to respond to warming conditions by nesting earlier.”
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