10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

A discarded pigeon’s egg reminded me that spring is just around the corner and that nest boxes should be readied in anticipation. Find a site which offers some protection from the sun during the heat of the day and which allows a direct approach. What’s this? Where did winter go? Think like a predator.

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Eggs Suffering Cats Protection 202

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2017

Ka’ena Point is also a breeding ground for the Federally protected Laysan albatross, where 45 nests were being carefully monitored by the non-profit Pacific Rim Conservation. They emerged from their bloody rampage leaving fifteen adults dead, and fifteen destroyed nests with either smashed or missing eggs. Gutierrez was 18.

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Albatross Honolulu Hawaii Killing 214

10,000 Birds

JULY 26, 2020

Following on from the sad loss of our first Pied Oystercatcher chick of 2020 the other eggs are now also hatching. Somehow the twenty eight days passed without the eggs being run over. We moved back and sat on the sand and watched the Pied Oystercatcher family. Pied Oystercatcher family. Pied Oystercatcher family.

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Eggs Family 2008 2020 175

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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Breeding Eggs Camels Shelters 160

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 23, 2014

There is egg predation, chick loss and sometimes possibly just some “bad parenting”! One pair of Pied Oystercatchers laid eggs the first year and did not appear to realise they were supposed to sit on them, but they have since learnt it is an essential part of rearing a chick and they have done so since.

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Eggs Raised Breeding Family 165

10,000 Birds

MARCH 24, 2013

They will only breed if the conditions are good and the male will be responsible for nest building and incubating the 6-12 eggs for approximately 60 days. There had been good rains the previous year and as a result of that there were numerous family groups. Emu family on the other side of the fence. Emu assessing the fence.

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Australia Investigation Family Eggs 189

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

Every year we observe both egg and chick loss amongst our Pied Oystercatcher pairs along Cable Beach and also in Roebuck Bay during their breeding season. The breeding season starts around the end of June and there are still eggs being laid and chicks hatching, but now these are the second clutches of eggs.

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Breeding Eggs Protection Family 147

10,000 Birds

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. I quickly took a photo and returned to the wet sand.

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Eggs Dogs Shelters Family 180

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 30, 2020

The family of Pied Oystercatchers soon made their move to Gantheaume Point. Gantheaume Point offers both food and protection for a young Pied Oystercatcher chick, which is very important when they are unable to fly. Typically the whole Pied Oystercatcher family spend a lot of time either feeding or roosting.

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Eggs Breeding Family Protection 189

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.

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Feral Cats Eggs Shelters Feral 137

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. Another member of the stork family, the African Openbill , looks like it is could benefit from a good orthodontist. And sadly, it is listed as Endangered.

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Ostriches Parrots Eggs Africa 147

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 27, 2023

This rocky area high up beyond the beach sand offers great camouflage and protection. The photo below shows the actual nest with the eggs in, but that may not be initially clear to you, so I have underlined them in a copy of the photo below. They will do it for other threats as a distraction to protect their eggs or chicks.

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Eggs Australia Protection 2000 130

10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2024

There are five families: Stilts & Avocets (Family Recurvirostridae), Oystercatchers (Family Haem), Plovers (Family Charadriidae), Sandpipers and Allies (Family Scolopacidae), and Jacanas (Jacanidae), with Family Scolopacidae representing the bulk of species (as it does worldwide).

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North America America 2006 Delaware 264

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

When there are cuckoos around – which parasitize Daurian Redstarts – the females have a higher rate of egg rejection. The Grey Nightjar is not really affected by real estate prices (always an important topic in China) as it does not build a nest – the eggs are simply laid on leaf litter or bare ground.

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Deer China Birds Owls 244

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

” A pity, as the species is not only very attractive but also a bit of a mystery, being neither a typical finch nor bunting and thus placed in its own family. Finally, the Azure-winged Magpie raises a hen-and-egg question: What was first, the color of the bird or the color of the Tibetan prayer flag?

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China Mongolia Russia Birds 202

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Second they are reliant on Horseshoe Vetch on which they lay their eggs and on which the caterpillars feed. It was a fascinating story to follow and the happy ending made it all the more touching, but a tiny bit of extra research brought even more exciting details of the secret life of the ‘blue’ family.

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Rabbits Ireland 2002 Sheep 157

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2012

Or, Pygmy leaf-folding frogs, Afrixalus brachycnemis, from Tanzania, tiny climbing frogs who lay their eggs in leaves and then fold the leaves over them for protection, sealing the nest with secretions. There is a large family of frogs, Bufonidae, that includes most of the warty, hoppy creatures we think of as toads.

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Reptiles Madagascar Family New York City 202

10,000 Birds

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. The Australasian Figbird is a member of the Oriole family despite not being yellow.

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Australia Koalas Parrots Birds 223

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2011

This happened to me recently on a birding trip, with somewhat egg-on-the-face results. A wide-open field in a wind-protected spot, recently visited by both mechanical and living manure-spreaders. Tags: Bird Behavior , buntings , features , michigan • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more!

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2011 Michigan Birds Ohio 241

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2017

Masked Lapwings have been busy breeding for some months now and some may well be on their second clutch of eggs. The Masked Lapwing is one of the noisiest shorebirds in the north, especially when they are protecting a nest or young. Masked Lapwing protecting a nest. Second Masked Lapwing protecting a nest beside the road.

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Breeding Eggs Protection Cows 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Could scientists use weather radar data to track the spread of avian influenza, and thereby help poultry growers protect their flocks? This lucky youngster from Massachusetts has almost 300 ticks, but just added his favorite— a Great Gray Owl his supportive family drove hundreds of miles to glimpse.

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Massachusetts Eggs Falcons Bears 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

They may be about bird eggs ( The Most Perfect Thing: The Inside (and Outside) of a Bird’s Egg , 2016), or a 17th-century ornithologist ( Virtuoso by Nature: The Scientific Worlds of Francis Willughby, 2016), or How Bullfinches learn songs from humans ( The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology.

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Dissection Birds Europe Eggs 255

10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2016

They are part of the Penduline family, and resemble the true t**s in most ways, but have sharp pointed bills. The dense prickly cactus aids in protection of the nest, making it very difficult to see in, let alone try to enter. The nest is lined with grass, leaves and feathers, and will have up to four blue-green eggs with red spots.

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Eggs Raised Protection Family 111

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2022

Reportedly, the Water Thick-knee sometimes locates its nest close to the nest of Nile crocodiles as this offers some protection. While hoopoes are in their own family, DNA studies suggest that the hoopoe diverged from hornbills, and the wood-hoopoes and scimitarbills from the hoopoe.

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Zimbabwe Benin South Africa Birds 147

10,000 Birds

JULY 1, 2014

They cut down the trees the parrots used for nesting and brought black rats, who ate their eggs, and honeybees who swarmed into their nests, and by 1937 there were only about 2,000 Puerto Rican Parrots left. In a few years they could only be found in El Yunque, a tropical rain forest in northeast Puerto Rico. territory.

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Puerto Rico Parrots New York City 2013 246

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Much of Wingate’s professional life revolved around his grand plan to create a “living museum” of pre-colonial Bermuda flora and fauna on Nonsuch Island, a habitat where the cahows would be protected and supported. All the while, he is observing, documenting, practically living with the cahows when they return to Bermuda.

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Rats Breeding Birds 2012 184

10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2022

I saw two Pitta species at Hongbenghe, both among the slightly less glamourous among the pitta family: The Blue-naped Pitta … … and the closely related Rusty-naped Pitta. At first glance, the difference between the Black-hooded Oriole … … and the Black-naped Oriole is just that they use different makeup artists.

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Myanmar Birds China Chicago 147

10,000 Birds

JULY 26, 2019

By 1595, protective mercantilist policies ordered by the Crown banned the creation of new vineyards in Peru, along with a later prohibition on exports of Peruvian wines to other Spanish colonies. The bottle I chose in the shop – solely on account of the condor on it – was the Pisco Puro Muscatel, one of several styles made by Cepas de Loro.

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Peru San Francisco Parrots Chile 135

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

They’re about protecting a system that produces cheap food. How does the health of a farmer’s family and community figure in when they are making the decision to continue industrialized production methods? The idea that eggs from free-range chickens are somehow morally superior to other eggs is, frankly, weird.

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New York Times New York Gestation Crates Gestation 40

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 29, 2006

According to Dr. Spock: Most families have become more conscious about the fat content of meats, and many are choosing the lower-fat cuts. My emphasis] There are other reasons why families are looking more favorably at plant-based choices. Children stay in better calcium balance when their protein comes from plant-based sources. (pp.

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Animal Meat Cows District of Columbia 40

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2015

I’m happy to say that Laura Erickson and Marie Read have written a book, Into the Nest: Intimate Views of the Courting, Parenting, and Family Lives of Familiar Birds , that is not too cute and that does not anthropomorphize. And of eggs and nests and birds on nests. Cedar Waxwings exchange berries, carry nesting material, eggs.

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Eggs 2006 Family New York 263

10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2011

Females seem to be the only sex to sit on the eggs according to literature, but no research appears to have been done on the night time routine. They both take responsibility protecting their young and remain in a family group for a period of time. If you follow the bird you know you will not accidentally stand on any eggs.

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Eggs Shelters Family Protection 173

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2013

The where and how of egg laying and larva emergence is briefly treated, with page references to larval drawings at the back of the book. Life cycles of odonata are described with a minimum of scientific language, accompanied by photographs illustrating stages–egg laying, larva, emergence, aging, mating, dispersal.

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Ireland France Breeding Eggs 197

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2012

African Harrier-Hawks, snakes and other predators frequently raid weaver colonies to rob the nests of eggs and chicks. Their nests are also a messy structure due to protective thorns on the outside, but the interior is constructed of softer grasses. Image taken in Samburu, Kenya by Adam Riley.

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Tanzania Buffalo Kenya Namibia 250

10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2011

As I watched, it slowly moved into a patch of dried vegetation and I noticed that it was settling over a single egg. Two or three eggs may be laid and either bird may incubate. … Tags: south-africa , Spotted Dikkop , stone curlews , thick-knees • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more!

2011 185

2011 Deer Africa Peru 185

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 5, 2014

by Arthur Ransome, 1947, starts with an affectionate recollection of a children’s book, in which a group of kids identify and protect a possibly rare bird (Great Northern Diver?), 32, 1887) and Egg collection (no. YOC was the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds’ Young Ornithologists’ Club.

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Mauritius Egypt Cyprus Collecting 173

10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2012

Hope you made the most of a precious May weekend… I took my kids down to the family gravel pit for some fishing. I caught glimpses of lots of fine, fine birds including a heroic Killdeer protecting a nest and my first Willow Flycatcher of the season. Admire the modest scrape and speckled eggs of the Killdeer a.

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2012 New York Fish Eggs 160