10,000 Birds
JULY 17, 2012
The population of parrotlets they studied was located on one of the many huge hatos (cattle ranches) in the Venezuelan llanos, a vast swath of flat flooded savannah in the central third of the country that drains into the Rio Orinoco. She lays an egg every day or two until completing a clutch of anywhere from five to ten eggs.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 17, 2013
In these situations, the birds have been treated like pests and targeted for extermination, or lost their eggs and nestlings to harvesting of the fields. The farmers, who specialize in silage (grains grown for cattle feed), wait a little longer to harvest their crops, giving young birds the time to fledge and move on.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 3, 2020
Instead, they lay their eggs in other species’ nests, and let those nest-making birds (often significantly smaller than the cowbirds) raise their young. But all this changed with the arrival of Europeans, and their cattle. So that is a negative mark on both their records. Starling -numerous.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 27, 2014
Actually, despite the fact that central Asian steppes cover huge areas, Sociable Lapwings breed only around nomadic cattle herders’ settlements, which signifies that this species has evolved alongside wild ungulates, such as Blackbuck and Saiga antelopes, which kept the grass short.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 6, 2021
We were even more delighted as we followed some cattle tracks to discover not only more bird species than we had hoped, but also more Yellow-billed Spoonbills. By the size of the juvenile birds the adults must have laid the eggs several months ago when the rains came to that area of Western Australia.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 4, 2021
Cattle Egrets have perfected that smudgy look. 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. She got excited: “Birds with sunglasses!” But do we really care?
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 15, 2018
In breeding season grazing cattle may walk through the nest, breaking the eggs, while wild and domestic pigs may eat both eggs and chicks. Yours truly counting birds in the Pastures of Great Bustard from the Russian made UAZ 4×4 in February 2008. What treats do they face?
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