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.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

The National Audubon Society Birds of North America covers all species seen in mainland United States, Canada and Baja California. Plate 28 from Audubon Bird Guide, Eastern Land Birds, by Richard H. Pough “with illustrations in color of every species” by Don Eckelberry, Doubleday, 1946. GUIDE COVERAGE.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2011

I’ve watched them glean insects (crane flies) from the Tundra, and they are known to rob nests of eggs and nestlings. Though widely viewed as scavengers (an important niche in life, and one that they fill very well), they are more than that. This is a tough place for a year round resident to find food.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2024

I have been watching them each year from our 18th-floor condo in Toronto, Canada. I’ve read that both parents will incubate the eggs, but I like to think that the female is more likely to be doing that. I saw her poking around in the nest which made me think she was turning the eggs. Also, he defended their territory.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 19, 2008

So are egg corporations. egg industry continues to consolidate. Some 200 companies have an average flock size of one million hens in a single location, with the top 60 companies producing 85% of all eggs. and Canada are actively opposing battery cages. and is not a major egg exporter.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2015

Barker, and Carroll Henderson is a well-researched, copiously illustrated, engaging study of bird feeding practices, personalities, inventions marketing, and companies that developed in the United States from the late 19th century to the present day, with a little bit of Canada, Europe, and South America thrown in. Margaret A.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2013

In addition to Pileated Woodpecker, the Second Atlas of Breeding Birds in Pennsylvania documents increases in numbers of Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Hooded Warbler, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Carolina Wren, Alder Flycatcher, Common Raven, Wild Turkey, and, of course, Canada Goose.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 26, 2024

Although his back garden is Gibraltar and the Strait of Gibraltar, Clive has an intimate knowledge of Iberian birds but his work also takes him much further afield, from Canada to Japan to Australia. The chicks need six months to develop so the adults lay their eggs in January. He is the Director of the Gibraltar National Museum.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2011

Above are Canada Goose goslings. Sometimes females have eggs to lay but no nest and the eggs can end up anywhere from other duck and goose nests…there was even a case in Minnesota where a Canada Goose laid an egg in an Osprey nest and the raptors incubated and hatched it !

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10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2024

Canadian artist Alexandra Finkeldey ’s illustrations capture that incredible cuteness, while her intricate work for the sections such as the breeding center, egg development, and life cycle ground the book in its nonfiction reality. From an art perspective, there’s not much cuter than a baby owl, with all its fluff and roundness and big eyes.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2013

About three billion birds fly north to the Boreal Forest each spring to build nests and lay eggs. Such is the case with the Keystone XL pipeline, which, if built, is slated to bring some of the “dirtiest,” carbon-rich oil on the planet from Alberta, Canada, to refineries on the US Gulf Coast.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2019

It was advisable to remove them at night, to keep them calm, to establish immediately a feeding board on which they would be fed chopped beef and egg to start, then fresh birds, rabbit or squirrel. Between 1974 and 2005, more than 7000 young Peregrines were hacked in the United States and Canada. And grow they did.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The purist birders take little interest in them, regarding them as no more interesting, or exciting, than the flocks of Canada Geese that have long been established in the county. A pair did lay infertile eggs in Iceland in 2018, but that’s about the only record I can find).

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 11, 2024

With her drawing of embryo development inside the egg, Ignotofsky noted that she likes when “I get to draw gross things and make it pretty.” addresses far more than nests, including sections on courtship, song, pair bonding, egg development, food, predators, bird growth, anatomy and feather development, migration and the cycle of life.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

In that spirit I present some of the common birds I have seen of late, birds that I expect to see on almost every outing in my area, birds that a birder can depend on.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 11, 2013

Peripatetic ornithologist Nick Sly has long been a friend of the blog here and has contributed such classics as Green-rumped Parrotlets from Egg to Adult and Forpus passerinus and the Ornithologists of Masaguaral. and Canada but they are also a frequent feeder bird during the winter months. A junco thermoregulating in a snow bank.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2019

Travel to Tiquicia for birding is high on the list of most birders because it’s not too far from Canada or the USA, there is good tourism infrastructure, and most of all, it’s pretty easy to see hundreds of eye-catching bird species. A “casado” is a full lunch plate and works for when you want to eat a lot.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 19, 2013

Plus the fact that they only lay one egg per season which is incubated for about four weeks and the chicks don’t fledge for another fifty days gives you some notion as to why these birds are a Species of Special Concern. Pairs will also reuse the same nest in consecutive years, adding only a small amount of material to the nest.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The lengthy Introduction gives both a personal history and a global history of birds and art, including brief profiles of John James Audubon and the far lesser known Genevieve Estelle Jones, who conceived of a book eventually called Illustrations of the Nests and Eggs of Birds of Ohio in the late 19th century. Western Scrub-Jay (pp.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 12, 2022

and Canada, it had apparently discovered an abandoned nest, on which it was clearly showing nesting behavior. In spite of our proximity, it spent a good while positioned as if it had eggs there. I’d would love to know if any of our readers have insight into the behavior of one Sora. Was it practicing?

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10,000 Birds

JULY 28, 2013

I could see from the road there was an egg in the nest and when a Glaucous Gull began circling the nest I expected one of the pair to lift from the lake and return to defend the nest. The next day the pair was still in the lake, but egg was still there which gave me some hope that the nest hadn’t been abandoned.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

It depicted a Common Loon ( Gavia immer ) sitting on eggs on a seemingly crude nest. Born in 1937 in Hong Kong of British missionary parents, James Fenwick Lansdowne arrived in Canada in 1940 and was educated in Victoria, British Columbia. Common Loon ( Gavia immer) This was a different artist. tridactylus).

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 23, 2012

Once upon a time, people and especially children felt free to interact with wild birds in any way that would satisfy their curiousity — watching and learning, yes, but also harassing and chasing, collecting eggs and nests, stealing nestlings as “pets”, and killing birds for amateur taxidermy efforts.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2017

Fortunately, just like when we visited Washington State , Daisy was amenable to taking a boat ride to see some puffins so on the evening of Saturday, 27 May, we (me, Daisy, Desi, and my mother-in-law) found ourselves on a boat in New Harbor watching Black Guillemots swim in the harbor while we waited for our boat to head out to Eastern Egg Rock.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 17, 2020

Whatever this striking image means, Stranger than Fiction seems oddly appropriate name for a beer given our current reality, a surreal existence that falls somewhere between Nietzsche’s “eternal return” and an unfunny, Kafkaesque purgatory from which birding is often the only escape to sanity.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 25, 2014

Spotted knapweed arrived in Montana in the 1920s, most likely in a batch of alfalfa seed or perhaps on the creep down from western Canada, where it may have come ashore in the ballast of ships. Since then, it has been pulled and plucked, sprayed and dusted, mowed and set on fire.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 18, 2014

migration corridors from Argentina in the Southern tip of South America to Canada. For example, in the Delaware Bay, warming coastal waters can cause horseshoe crabs to lay their eggs earlier than normal; conversely, more intense and frequent coastal storms can cause late spawning. Arctic Canada face ongoing and proposed development.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

American Goldfinches are found in much of the United States all year round, spreading their range to Canada in the summer, and into the southern United States and Mexico in the winter. The cowbirds will try to lay their eggs in a goldfinch nest, but once hatched the young only survive a few days.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 10, 2016

while showing diminishing numbers in the north and northeastern part of the US and Canada, are quite abundant down here. Each nesting pair will have 4-8 eggs, and there is some reference to location being a factor on that quantity. And yes, I have even seen a few left over morsels hanging around a thorn bush or two. Migrans and L.i.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

With a hardiness that belies their delicate looks (but helps explain their phenomenal success), these pioneering pigeons are already sitting on eggs at at least one location in Montana. So right now I’m feeling pretty good about Eurasian Collared-doves. Maybe we have tough Mourning Doves in NY.

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Critter News

JANUARY 25, 2012

1, 2012, egg-laying hens across many European countries will live with fewer discomforts: The European Commission has officially implemented its ban on battery cages, the notoriously cramped cages used by many egg farmers and criticized by animal rights proponents and veterinarians who call them cruel and harmful to the birds' welfare.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 15, 2012

Brush top with beaten egg. This is open to those in the USA and Canada, and there are multiple ways to get entries too. Formulated by Melody McKinnon exclusively for 4TheLoveOfAnimals.com. Ingredients: 1 1/2 cups whole wheat flour (or flour substitute). 1/4 cup pureed sweet potato. 1 TBSP extra virgin olive oil. 1 TBSP plain yogurt.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 29, 2011

One of our resident Glaucous Gulls The first Thayer’s Gull arrived on Thursday and the first Canada Goose (ssp parvipes ) arrived the next day. Friends of mine came home from those lakes with tales of Sandhill Cranes , Snowy Owls with eggs in the nest and others.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 28, 2011

A Tufted Titmouse “Peter-Peter-Peter&# ed from the trees and a big flock of White-throated Sparrows made their “Oh-Canada-Canada-Canada&# sound more like a lament for a lost land then a cheerful expression of nationalism. At least it made for a sunny Easter egg hunt… Get to Esopus Bend Nature Preserve.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 24, 2016

The Common Gallinule , is the most wide spread of all the members of the rail family, being found from Canada, to Chile, Europe, Asia, Africa, much of the Pacific, and the Galapagos Islands. These birds have been known to be prolific breeders, with as many as 8 broods a year, and each clutch holding from 5-13 eggs.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 14, 2017

And colorful eggs. I have much to celebrate, as my family and I are embarked on a Spring Break sojourn to Panama by way of Canada. For many people around the world, the coming weekend carries spiritual meaning, symbolic of rebirth and renewal. And chocolate bunnies. And lots and lots of birds. Celebrate your way!

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Lifers included Cape May, Tennessee, Blackburnian, Chestnut-sided, Blackpoll, Kentucky, Canada, and Blue-winged warblers. That bird stuck around for a while, invariably associating with some Canada Geese on a specific fairway on a specific golf course near Half Moon Bay. It truly is the “Warbler Capital of the World.”

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