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. Pied Oystercatchers feeding alone.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Frankly, if the name of the Bald Eagle was North Korean Eagle ( Haliaeetus coreaseptentrionalis ?), In Daurian Redstarts , personality traits (specifically, whether a bird is shy or bold) partly determine how good an individual is in rejecting cuckoo eggs in its nest. it would not be the national bird of the USA either.

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Eggs Bald Eagle Birds Owls 252

10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2021

Sadly, there have been no males displaying for the last five years, so the remaining 8 females – the entire Serbian population – may only incubate unfertilised eggs. still hadn’t seen his White-tailed Eagle , hence we headed for the Beljarica backwaters, along the Danube upriver from Belgrade. Nutria) flew by us (this time, it was Q.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2012

Living near the Sacramento River and its many lakes and tributaries makes it even more likely to see the incredible fish hawk or sea eagle we call the Osprey ( Pandion haliaetus ). Osprey pairs usually form at the nest site where females are fed almost exclusively by their mates prior to egg laying behavior 1.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2013

“Do you see the eagle?” Early April is a fairly typical time for the earlier-migrating Osprey to arrive (both birds at Dunrovin are already onsite,) but eggs probably won’t appear until late April or early May. Time enough, I suppose, for our newcomers to figure out that those aren’t eagles.

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Bald Eagle Idaho Primates Eagles 239

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2012

Feral cats are a huge problem in Australia and they do take a lot of the eggs. There are four pairs with eggs currently after the first pair lost their eggs, which they laid in the same location as last year. This pair laid a white egg last year on their second attempt in the exact same nest.

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Feral Cats Turtles Eggs Investigation 194

10,000 Birds

MAY 10, 2024

Unlike the Common Cuckoo, the young GSC doesn’t eject its foster parents’ eggs or chicks from the nest, but is reared alongside them. Eastern Imperial Eagles once bred in the Troodos, but the last birds disappeared over 30 years ago. In 2007, a Bateleur Eagle was seen on Cyprus, the first record for Europe.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2018

White-tailed Eagles normally take flight silently, yet, while checking some Common Starlings and hoping for Rosy Starlings , I heard a few noisy wing-beats, enough to turn and see a young eagle flying with a wing tag. To prove more how young and inexperienced it was, the eagle even landed on the ground a mere 15 metres behind my car.

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Eagles Otters Serbia 2016 207

10,000 Birds

JULY 13, 2023

Booted Eagle by Kostas Papadopoulos The next morning was a lazy one, a late breakfast and even later excursion. Later in the day, roadside birds included a Booted Eagle and a Levant Sparrowhawk. What amazed me is that, instead of the usual 6 or 8 slices, this pizza was cut into tiny, bite-size slices!

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Greece Pelicans Stray Dog Tortoises 246

10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2014

The local Bald Eagles are getting busy, I suspect there is an egg in the nest. The zoo has already identified several species like the huge monkey-eating Philippine eagle that are at once distinct, endangered, and suffer from lack of attention. All I see are their buts. Also written up here. The original paper is here.

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Bald Eagle Zoos Philippines Birds 207

10,000 Birds

JUNE 22, 2011

Here’s a photo of a House Finch nest before the eggs hatch and the hatchlings start producing fecal sacs. This adult Bald Eagle politely moves away from the nest to defecate (watch out). The dark part is undigested feces. So how do nesting birds deal with the excrement of all those nestlings until they fledge?

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Bald Eagle Chickens North America Birds 250

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2011

Young raptors like the above Bald Eagle chick are a different matter. If you find a young hawk or eagle out of the nest and it is covered in down and is unable to stand on its huge feet, it needs to get back in the nest. Once they are old enough to flop out of the nest, they have no desire to stay there.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2021

They know how to find food for themselves only a few moments after emerging from their egg, and then likely produce a special protein which allows them to harness quantum entanglement for global navigation. Add to that their incredulous migration facilitated by physiological capabilities we can barely imagine. There is still so much to learn!

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Buffalo Kenya Trinidad 2019 264

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.

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Hunters Hunting North America Game 200

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

The first eggs were laid in the first week of July, which is the case each year. The eggs take 28 days to hatch and it is then at least 35 days before the chicks are developed enough to fly and there have been problems with predation as in other years. Pied Oystercatcher sitting on eggs in the nudist area of Cable Beach.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2015

Not the best shot but this Bald Eagle was distantly digiscoped as it circled over Willow Lake. The Snow Geese at Big Egg Marsh were fun to photograph as they landed on the field on Saturday. They must have irrupted further south and are now on their way back north. Keep those nyger socks out! They always live up to the second half.

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Bald Eagle New York City Birds Geese 217

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

If you have always wondered what the minimum anesthetic concentration for isoflurane and sevoflurane for the Crested Serpent-eagle is, science has an answer. While serpent means large snake, the Crested Serpent-eagle also eats frogs, as this video shows.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 29, 2018

We have been busy walking the beach and keeping an eye on our local Pied Oystercatchers and the two pairs that laid their eggs earliest for the 2018 breeding season and successfully hatched out their chicks have now lost their chicks to predation. They have only laid one egg so far and another may be laid within a day.

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Eggs Feral Cats Feral 2018 149

10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2021

Two wildlife biologists brought me a Golden Eagle inside a metal pipe.” “Apparently she found a fallen American Robin ‘s egg,” she wrote, “and kept it in there for two weeks! “All he had was an empty super (the part of the hive where the honey would go), the bottom, and the lid. wrote Debbie Souza-Pappas in Utah.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2022

The one bird I did not see here, however, was the Bateleur Eagle … One highlight in the area is the Saddle-billed Stork , likely to be the tallest species in the stork family. Studies on improving ostrich egg hatchability. Also, I learned that in the US , ostrich eggs are priced at $40-$75. Ostriches originated in Asia.

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Ostriches Parrots Eggs Africa 147

10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2017

The next web site is Youtube and the White-tailed Eagle nest cam (cover photo from February) at an island nature reserve, the Veliko Ratno ostrvo in almost downtown Belgrade – my favorite canoeing turf. They lay eggs in late January or early February, and the Statehood Day of Serbia is in mid-February. Are Goldeneyes adapting, too?

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Montenegro Serbia Eagles Eggs 122

10,000 Birds

APRIL 17, 2020

The packaging artwork has changed – last year it was a fluid, thickly-textured portrait of a Eurasian Eagle-Owl ( Bubo bubo ) – but I think the recipe has remained the same. The artwork of this edition is by Jenny Keith – an Edmonton, Alberta-based artist with a penchant for depicting animals and natural curiosities.

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Collecting Canada Shelters Mammals 187

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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

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

The most notorious effect is that their eggshells become so thin that a parent bird will crush it’s eggs while attempting to incubate them. Raptors and other predatory birds have largely rebounded, and there seems to be be no shortage of Brown Pelicans, Peregrine Falcons and Bald Eagles.

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Albatross Endangered Species Bald Eagle Alaska 243

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2017

If there’s one common theme to this week’s bird news items, it’s their collective bizarreness: The eagle has landed—on the drone, as France trains birds to take out drones that stray into restricted airspace. Scientists ponder the feasibility of genetically engineering chickens to lay the eggs of endangered bird species.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2013

These predatory thrushes have been known to prey on albatross and Spectacled Petrel eggs, the young of Great Shearwaters and have even been known to remove storm-petrel species from their burrows and kill them. Almost as good as someone finding an aquatic eagle with gills that preys on lanternfish at the bottom of the ocean.

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South Africa Birds South America Feral Cats 243

10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2011

Sometimes it is too late, as they are deceased and Brahminy Kites and White-bellied Sea-Eagles usually take advantage of the situation. Speaking of pregnant snakes, do sea snakes lay their eggs ashore like sea turtles or do they keep them internally until the young are ready to hatch/ be born, like some sharks?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2019

The storks begin to arrive from August and will usually be sitting on eggs by October. There are a lot of predators drawn to such abundance with Eurasian Marsh Harriers and Greater Spotted Eagles known to take chicks from the heronry. Eggs often fall victim to the ubiquitous House Crow.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

Bald Eagle, for example, is still said to be “formerly more widespread” though the range map shows expansion. 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.

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North America America California Condor Birds 279

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 19, 2011

qn Archaeopteryx-like theropod from China Runner-up: The Bald Eagle that swooped around over the Big Gay Race in Minneapolis in October, which I didn’t get a picture of. It was all mushed up but you could still see its feathers. Has it been the Small Gay Race it might have picked off a couple of racers.

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2011 Birds South Korea North Dakota 221

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2019

Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh.

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2019 Jamaica Eggs Woodpeckers 133

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

kilograms whereas the Wedge-tailed Eagle only weighs in at 5.8 The female is a smaller bird and they only breed once a year laying one large olive green egg. The average weight of a male bird is 6.3 Male Australian Bustards can stand up to 120 centimetres tall and have a wingspan of 2.3

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Mice Australia Eggs Eagles 114

10,000 Birds

MAY 29, 2011

Friends of mine came home from those lakes with tales of Sandhill Cranes , Snowy Owls with eggs in the nest and others. A tantalizing report from them included a brown owl, the likely suspect a Short-eared Owl slightly north of its accepted range.

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Bald Eagle Iceland North America Owls 129

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2022

As the national bird of Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, the African Fish Eagle is usually very busy whenever it stays in these countries, giving speeches, opening shopping centers, etc. However, it is kind of sophisticated in that the females lay very individualized eggs in order to be able to detect the added eggs of parasite cuckoo finches.

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Zimbabwe Benin South Africa Birds 147

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 11, 2017

Steal and eat their eggs? It makes people feel like they have to choose sides, and who wants to choose sides between the noble bald eagle and the majestic great horned owl or whatever? Again, I know you’re just doing what you gotta do. Drag some other bird bodily out of a hollow tree and thrash the feathers off them?

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Bald Eagle Belize Iowa Eggs 102

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Recent studies in Sri Lanka have revealed that, upon sighting a predator, a drongo will imitate the alarm calls of at least 4 other bird species (babblers, laughing thrushes, bulbuls, and others), as well as the call given by the specific predator, i.e. a giant squirrel or eagle.

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Sri Lanka Taiwan Birds Cats 245

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2022

Eagle-eyed Pat spotted a Lesser Black-backed Gull in nonbreeding plumage and other birders that week noted a Thayer’s Gull (which we may have seen too–I mean, who expects Iceland Gull in April?). Multitudes, hundreds of Brown Pelicans and Terns–Least, Common, Foster’s, Sandwich, Royal, and Caspian.

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