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AUGUST 13, 2023

We all hope that they were able to breed successfully in the Northern Hemisphere and that they can find food throughout the Flyway to return to our shores. Our resident shorebirds have started to breed in the last few weeks and there are numerous Pied Oystercatcher nests along our shores right now.

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OCTOBER 11, 2020

The fully fledged Pied Oystercatcher chick is the bird on the right. 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. They moved around a bit to get comfortable on the rocky outcrop. Pied Oystercatcher family at roost.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 31, 2011

All New World Quail are highly gregarious, typically found in coveys or flocks except during breeding season. In California, coveys break up and pairs begin forming in February or March, followed by nest building and egg laying in May or June. She will usually lay 12 to 17 eggs, averaging five per week 1 , before beginning incubation.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

There is a great song by The Chills titled “ Complex “ Great link, right? It is not quite clear why they do this as it apparently does not affect breeding success. Apparently, birds that are fast in exploring new things – bold birds – are better at rejecting parasitic eggs ( source ).

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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.

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JULY 17, 2012

Horned Larks breed widely over North America, including up here in the High Arctic. Here they are a common breeding bird, one of our two species that migrate from here to Europe and then south. At the same time (and sometime the same location) we have Semipalmated Plovers breeding, which makes identification a challenge.

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MAY 20, 2012

It is present both in Broome itself and also surrounding ephemeral lakes and appears to breed throughout the year if the conditions are right. They will sit tight on the eggs even if you are within a few metres of the nest and are very reluctant to move.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

You will notice the Common Sandpiper in the photo to the right! There are more Pied Oystercatcher nests with eggs in them now, so the breeding season is not over yet. I managed to capture the stretched wing, but not the whole bird! Pied Oystercatcher chick having a wing stretch.

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AUGUST 9, 2020

They can also be found inland at the ephemeral lakes and can breed throughout the year if the conditions are right. 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. We took a few photos and moved off.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Male Phalaropes, Jacanas, Tinamous, and Rheas build nests, incubate the eggs and take care of the chicks. During the breeding season, adult males split from the flocks they normally live in and begin to advertise their availability to females by calling and performing body contortions. Some of the eggs will be lost to the elements.

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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.

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APRIL 2, 2017

Over the past few months there have been a lot of birds breeding around Broome with the excellent rain events that we have been having and the vegetation is at long last revived. Masked Lapwings have been busy breeding for some months now and some may well be on their second clutch of eggs. Masked Lapwing protecting a nest.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Finally, the exotic Island snail occurs in Argentina, Brazil and Bolivia where they are consumed by Snail Kites there (the Snail Kite occur throughout South America, the Everglade Snail Kite is a sub-species). Exotic apple snail (left) and native apple snail (right) Photo: The Pomacea Project.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 11, 2019

In fact we often don’t have any chicks within two weeks of the eggs hatching and other pairs along the coast have not been successful yet this season. More eggs have been laid and hopefully other pairs of Pied Oystercatchers will soon have young to care for. Pied Oystercatcher family. Male Pied Oystercatcher and two chicks.

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MAY 26, 2024

Griffon Vultures have a long breeding season. The chicks need six months to develop so the adults lay their eggs in January. Isn’t it a bit late to breed? Why bother with such a risky journey if you aren’t going to breed? So why are these Griffons arriving now? They have to get out.

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JULY 28, 2013

Especially the bird breeding season, which passes by at the blink of an eye. Travis got to experience things he normally wouldn’t (like spending about 5 hours every day in a pool) and seeing the world famous Canadian Forces Snowbirds aerobatic team (I can post a photo of them right? It hasn’t been a summer to remember.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

With populations plunging dramatically over the last decade, researchers from the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, Birds Russia, and a number of other conservation organizations made the always-controversial call to pluck eggs from the imperiled wild population and establish a captive breeding program as a final hedge against extinction.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2023

The male Comb-crested Jacana builds the nest, incubates the eggs and cares for the young. You can see there were several occasions where they literally “sank” and then managed to right themselves. We have observed nests in the past further north. He can also pick up the chicks under his wings and move them to safety.

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JULY 24, 2011

As far as I can tell it is the most northern breeding record for the species. Last year the nest failed, the eggs apparently not viable, never hatching. I had crossed the stream and was approaching for a quick look to see how many eggs were in the nest this year. It would be a hard act to ignore. Splish Splash. Come and get me.

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JANUARY 22, 2012

Right now we’re pretty much a three species town, Ravens with a chance of Hoary Redpolls and a sprinkling of Rock Ptarmigan. (I The peak of this activity is over in about a week, and the birds head upland to nest (for the most part, as some have nested right at the edge of the water. This was a later nest.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2014

Of the sixteen pairs of Pied Oystercatchers between Gantheaume Point and Willie Creek on the south side, which is a length of breeding territories covering 23 kilometres-just over 14 miles-only one chick fledges most years. There is egg predation, chick loss and sometimes possibly just some “bad parenting”!

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AUGUST 12, 2012

After 28 days of sharing the duty of sitting on three eggs we finally had the arrival of our first Pied Oystercatcher chicks for 2012 on Friday August 3rd. It is unusual for three eggs to be laid here in Broome and many eggs do not even hatch due to predation each season.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2014

In her free time she travels near and far to find birds to continue building her life list, though many of her favorites can still be found right in her own backyard. The park is home to not one, not two, but large three colonies of breeding seabirds: the Brown Noddy , Magnificent Frigatebird , and Sooty Tern. Lots and lots of birds.

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JANUARY 16, 2020

The usual way to find an owl would be to listen to its territorial call in the breeding season (to listen and not to lure it – I oppose the playback ), but this species is even less vocal than most other owls. Egg-laying starts in late March to early April and they remain in the vicinity till early June.

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JUNE 4, 2017

After a very good Wet Season with substantially more rain than normal over the first few months of 2017 the land was flooded and a huge variety of birds arrived in the Broome area to take advantage of the ideal conditions for breeding. Australian Painted Snipe nest with four eggs. Four eggs in the Australian Painted Snipe nest.

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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. Andean Flamingoes and Chilean Flamingo (far right) (Photo: Ron Knight – Flickr). Photo: Marcio Cabral de Mora – Flickr).

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AUGUST 11, 2018

One of our male Pied Oystercatchers has been marked with an engraved leg flag “A1” and was one of the first pairs to lay eggs this season. Sadly the two chicks did not survive very long at all and the pair of Pied Oystercatchers were soon getting ready to lay more eggs. “A1” Preparing another nest site.

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APRIL 25, 2022

In my imagination, the job of a male Australian Brush Turkey is pretty similar – removing or adding bits and pieces to his pile of rotting vegetation in order to get the right temperature to incubate the eggs buried underneath to hatch. It breeds in tree holes, presumably explaining the more commonly used name for it.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The goal of Around the World For Penguins is simple: Describe the 18 species of penguin and their breeding grounds “from the perspective of a traveller.” Plantema gives highly detailed information about the weather, terrain, ownership of and access to the islands and coasts where penguins breed.

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AUGUST 28, 2014

Among birds the Egyptian Vulture uses rocks to crack Ostrich eggs, the New Caledonian Crow and Woodpecker Finch (one of several Darwin Finches of the Galapagos Islands), uses sticks to extract grubs from inside a branch. Egyptian Vultures raised is isolation used rocks to crack eggs presented to them. The behavior was inherent.

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AUGUST 3, 2014

Whether the inspiration to this post came from Germany winning the U19 European football championship yesterday right on the heels of our (adult) team winning the world cup (Yes! At the beginning of the 20th century they were nearly extinct, with no breeding pairs left in the west of Germany and just very few in Germany’s East.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2011

We get to see a lot of them around here, and familiarity breeds, not contempt certainly, but perhaps apathy. It’s funny, given how common Palms are at the right time of the year, that I almost never see the two populations together. In the spring their period of peak migration is separated by a week or more.

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OCTOBER 4, 2021

Then, I was not sure whether this was the right thing to do. Breeding in Northern Japan and wintering in the Phillippines, some seem to take a migratory rest stop (and slight deviation) at the Shanghai coast. Interfering with nature … Both are fully alive, though this is hard to tell on these photos. A happier shrike.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Kirtland’s Warbler is a classic niche species; they breed in only very specific conditions, which occur in only a very specific area. this species breeds. Fortunately, there were still a handful of immature birds alive at sea, and a few years later they were back on Toroshima breeding again.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Breeding bird surveys appears to show the resplendent Allen’s Hummingbird (like Corey’s capture, above) in decline—but not in Southern California, where examination of eBird data reveals that members of a residential population appear to be faring much better than their migrating brethren. sports championships ).

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MAY 18, 2016

They will also fly thru the large breeding areas of many different shorebirds, and pluck an unattended baby right out of the nest. One of the most recognizable features of the frigatebirds would be the bright red gular, or throat pouch that they inflate during breeding in order to attract a female.

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MARCH 21, 2024

Being a westerner — raised in California, and now living in western Mexico — I was perhaps most excited about the migratory birds that breed in eastern North America. And then there was a Green Heron , not only showing us its nest, but also an egg. Then, around 4:00 p.m., And yet, there it was. But what could I do?

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