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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10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2012

Seabirds are one group of birds that go for the latter strategy. A few families have a small number of eggs in the clutches, like gulls or cormorants. Others, like the petrels and some of the auks, will lay a single egg per breeding attempt. The Cassin’s Auklets do something else that is very interesting. So why do it?

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Eggs Puffins Breeding Albatross 210

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2012

I’ve family to raise and no time for modeling.” Typically there are four eggs in a brood especially on good year. Once the eggs hatch the family begins the long walk down to the shoreline. “Do you mind? ” The Baird’s Sandpiper is by far our most numerous shorebird here in Arctic Bay.

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South America Eggs Family Raised 211

10,000 Birds

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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Feral Cats Eggs Feral Raised 162

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The HBW accurately hints at the difficulties of getting a photo of this bird: “Generally hiding deep in shrubbery, where it forages in small groups for seeds on and near the ground, and revealing itself only when singing from the top of a bush, this is not an easy bird to study.”

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2016

That’s what a group of researchers suggest in a paper recently published in Behavioral Ecology. Birds like cuckoos, who lay their eggs in songbirds’ nests, and whose young then off the hosts’ own chicks, tend to avoid cities. This may help songbirds successfully raise their families without worrying about invaders.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 1, 2018

This year is the eighteenth year since we discovered our first Pied Oystercatcher nest on Cable Beach in Broome and it didn’t take us long to realise that they are not at all successful at raising young due to egg and chick predation. Each year we hope for anther success, but so far it has not happened. Pied Oystercatcher nest.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2022

Studies on improving ostrich egg hatchability. Also, I learned that in the US , ostrich eggs are priced at $40-$75. Each fresh egg weighs 4 pounds and is the equivalent of 24 chicken eggs. . Each of these ‘families’ consists of a single mating pair and 1-5 ‘helpers’ who assist in raising the young.

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Ostriches Parrots Eggs Africa 147

Critter News

DECEMBER 23, 2008

In response to both kinds of scenarios, some have begun to raise the possibility of an "eco-intervention," analogous to humanitarian interventions. In Nicaragua, the army patrols beaches to protect sea turtle eggs. Already, some conservation campaigns have taken on martial aspects.

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Central African Republic Protection Sea Turtles Rhinos 100

Animal Person

MAY 26, 2009

But a recipe using applesauce and flax rather than eggs and butter, with a fabulous photo, might catch his or her eye. Mixing Bowl seems like a great place to raise awareness that perfectly delicious, healthy meals and desserts, including kids' birthday cakes and wedding cakes, can be made without killing anyone.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2016

Pheasant Coucals are also a member of the cuckoo family, but are unique because they do actually raise their own young. All other cuckoos lay their eggs in other birds’ nests and let them raise them. The Eastern Koel has only been recorded in Broome on very rare occasions.

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United Kingdom Raised 2013 Africa 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2017

There had been a grader along the fence-line many years ago leaving a lower area that was very flooded and the raised dirt it had left behind was the perfect location for a pair of nesting Australian Painted Snipe. Australian Painted Snipe nest with four eggs. Four eggs in the Australian Painted Snipe nest.

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Breeding Eggs Raised 2017 100

Animal Ethics

JULY 12, 2010

A Humane Egg The life of animals raised in confinement on industrial farms is slowly improving, thanks to pressure from consumers, animal rights advocates, farmers and legislators. In California last week, Gov.

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New York Times New York Proposition 2 Veal 40

Animal Ethics

JULY 21, 2010

To the Editor: In your July 12 editorial “ A Humane Egg ,” you disparage the modern, sanitary housing systems for egg-laying hens, which have improved chickens’ health and well-being, improved consumer food safety and kept eggs a nutritious and economical staple on kitchen tables and restaurant menus nationwide.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 18, 2006

I buy pasture-raised meat, milk and eggs from local farmers who I know personally, because the animals are healthier than industrially raised animals, and I find that the quality is better. I hope everyone who prefers local and pasture-raised animals will speak up and protect the source of their food and health.

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New York Times New York Pennsylvania 2006 40

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2011

If you cannot find the nest or it’s too destroyed, do not try and raise a chick this young. It’s illegal to raise wild birds (even orphaned ones) without state and federal permits. Try to get it too another family group or contact a wildlife rehabber. Never raise a wild goose or duckling yourself.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

In the former, a female lays her fertilized egg in the nest of another species, in the hopes that her offspring will be raised by the unwitting hosts. In the latter, three or more adult individuals contribute to the raising of offspring. fledglings per group per season. It turns out that the two strategies may be related.

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Breeders Breeding Science Raised 255

10,000 Birds

APRIL 30, 2013

Not only are you dealing with an oriole with the standard appropriation of orange and black you expect in that group, but that massive blue based bill and, especially, the eye, hypnotic yellow and surrounded by a mask of blue skin, is too much. . There is no doubt about it, this is a striking bird.

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Baltimore Broker North America Raised 236

10,000 Birds

APRIL 27, 2012

Many of the most peculiar aspects of birds are involved with mating, whether it’s for attracting mates, defending nests against predators, or raising chicks. In this system, females mate and lay eggs with multiple males over the course of a breeding season, leaving males to incubate the eggs and raise the chicks.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 26, 2024

The first eggs are usually laid at the end of May or sometimes in the first week of June, but this can vary depending on the weather. Both sexes incubate, with the eggs taking an average of 19 or 20 days to hatch. The clutch is two, sometimes three, with incubation usually not starting until the clutch is complete.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 30, 2011

After mating, a single egg is laid and incubation duties are shared by both parents. The long shifts before swapping duties reduce the number of times that the birds have to run the gauntlet of the gulls and increase their chances of succesfully raising the chick to the age of abandonment.

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United Kingdom Brazil Eggs Abandonment 197

10,000 Birds

JULY 26, 2013

This blog was written by Marge Gibson, founder of the Raptor Education Group, Inc. We all thought the kindest approach would be to end her suffering, but then…she raised her head and looked directly at me. Within a few hours we had cleaned it, picked it clean of maggots, and treated it for any residual maggots or their eggs.

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Eagles Wounded Bald Eagle Wisconsin 257

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 17, 2022

In terms of breeding behavior, starlings are a diversified group – some use helpers, others do not. Superb Starlings avoid this when using helpers, much like rich people presumably reducing the stress of raising kids by hiring a couple of nannies. She also laid eggs in Melba Finch nests. Red-billed Firefinch.

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South Africa Africa Cape Verde Birds 259

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The consultant also suggested increasing readership by catering to highly specific niche interest groups. They are also raised commercially for meat and eggs, as described in that beacon of ornithological knowledge, the World’s Poultry Science Journal. I don’t think I will stoop that low.

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Birds China Eggs Owls 272

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

If you remember that the first edition of Sibley was published with “National Audubon Society” on the cover, raise your hand. Color-coded page headings denote bird groups, matched by color-coded bird silhouette icons located midway down the edge of the page. I didn’t.). This is a fairly large book: 907 pages; 7.38

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North America America California Condor Birds 279

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Baird’s Sparrow by Seagull Steve Julie’s was not a wild bird, well, at least not one that lived outdoors: My Best Bird of the Year, and the 22 preceding, was Charlie, a Chestnut-fronted Macaw I got as a captive-raised fledgling in 1989. She made a fool of me when I first met her, and again when she left me.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2022

There were an estimated 13,000 breeding pairs and roosting birds in 2016; additional islands have been created to support the increasing population and a raised (17-feet) walkway with observation platforms allows birders and photographers to enjoy them. Chestnut-sided on the left! Redstart above the Parula! Another Hooded! Wood Thrush!

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Houston Texas Sanctuary Sparrows 264

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2012

The Natural History section points out that Red-tailed Pennants hold their wings flat or slightly lowered, while the skimmers tend to raise their wings. Family and genus sections all begin with descriptions of what features the group has in common and how individuals differ. With odonates, there are always exceptions!

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2024

Interestingly, only about half of the helpers are related to the breeding pair … … and only the ones not related to the pair gained some parentage, either by sneaking in some sex with the breeding female or by adding an egg. I guess it would not be ok to do this to your own relatives, but with strangers, it is probably ok.

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Indonesia Birds Charlotte Breeding 246

10,000 Birds

JUNE 25, 2017

Australasian Grebes will take advantage of good conditions and raise up to three clutches of eggs and by the numbers of birds currently around the Broome area now it does appear that they took advantage of the big rain even early this year. Adult Australasian Grebe.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 16, 2009

Animals raised for food suffer miserably. The overwhelming passage in November of Proposition 2 in California, which banned tight confinement of many of the animals raised for food, is a fine example of the power of publicity to educate people about the atrocities we commit to those animals who have no voice of their own.

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New York Times New York Debeaking Factory Farm 40

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 29, 2006

In recent years, the prevalence of disease-causing bacteria in meat, poultry, and eggs has risen sharply, which is why health authorities insist that these products be carefully handled and thoroughly cooked, if they are used at all. There is no need for infants to be raised on cow's milk formulas. But what about prior to two years?

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Animal Meat Cows District of Columbia 40

10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2011

How do I know of their Gothic moods when they have hidden them so well in an egg-white shell of conformity? Palm Warblers in Central Park Answers to A Diabolical Quick Quiz Cow Birds About the Author Jochen Jochen Roeder was born in Germany and raised to be a birder. It is the claws that give them away, their black nail polish.

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2011 Birds Deer Europe 221

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

Foxes have also been known to take their eggs and there are now numerous local groups who endeavour to help the populations of Hooded Plovers along their local coastlines. In order to raise our awareness, to remind us of what we have lost, and to inspire us to fight for Every.

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Species Australia Birds Parrots 221

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

From Hiro, we learn how Northern Pygmy Owls are “rule breakers,” not incubating eggs till all are hatched and then raising owlets that mature at the same rate even though the eggs were laid asynchronously (as most owl eggs are). In some ways, this is a puzzling chapter.

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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 246

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Birds are raised from the egg to follow a certain migration timing, but that timing shifts when the egg hatches later or earlier due to changes in conditions. This year, the prospect of the initial birds having four wings instead of two came into greater focus. With global warming, this has meant earlier hatching.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 8, 2022

In contrast, the females need to make sure not to get duped into raising actual cuckoos – the buntings are a targeted host species ( source ). Fortunately for the buntings, they seem to detect most cuckoo eggs smuggled in (75% in one study). Maybe there is some justice in this world after all. Better safe than sorry.

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Eggs Birds Bangladesh China 264