10,000 Birds

JANUARY 16, 2015

On our first morning after breakfast, my group and the teens piled onto a boat and headed out to Eastern Egg Rock, once again the breeding ground for Atlantic Puffins (as well as a host of other seabirds) thanks to biologist Dr. Stephen Kress. A Ruby-throated Hummingbird has approximately 900 feathers; a Tundra Swan, 200-300,000.

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Puffins Birds Groups West Virginia 275

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NOVEMBER 6, 2023

When there are cuckoos around – which parasitize Daurian Redstarts – the females have a higher rate of egg rejection. Recently, it has become fashionable among Siberian Rubythroats to go for a slightly more subdued throat color (no source as I just made this bit of information up). Better safe than sorry, I guess.

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Deer China Birds Owls 244

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MARCH 7, 2012

But after having seen Green Iguanas in person my curiosity was piqued, and I figured the least I could do was learn a bit about them and share that information with 10,000 Birds readers…I hope you enjoy! The female of the species lays ten to thirty eggs in a burrow she digs about 65 days after mating.

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New York Reptiles Eggs South America 170

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APRIL 4, 2014

Now we gamble again (literally as well as figuratively – there’s a split-pot prize for predicting the dates of arrival, egg-laying, and other major events) on the hope that they will lay viable eggs and successfully rear young. Right now, the new information is coming so thick and fast that all I can do is stand amazed.

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Eggs 2011 Falcons Science 175

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MAY 23, 2021

But there are ways to prevent this situation, and to prevent the constant springtime problem of wildlife being orphaned… like these Barred Owls , above left, and Red-Shouldered Hawks , all of whom were delivered as eggs to Christine’s Critters in Weston, CT, thanks to two different private homeowners’ felling of trees. What if you did?”

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Wildlife Laws Game 264

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Plantema gives highly detailed information about the weather, terrain, ownership of and access to the islands and coasts where penguins breed. He draws on his personal experiences to inform the history, geography, and especially the travel option sections. © Otto Plantema, used with permission. © Otto Plantema, used with permission.

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Penguins Georgia Albatross New Zealand 279

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

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JANUARY 2, 2024

He has written and co-written over 400 scientific papers on brood parasitism, Common Cuckoos, egg rejection and other nesting behaviors, and fairy wren learning in addition to T he Book of Eggs: A Life-Size Guide to the Eggs of Six Hundred of the World’s Bird Species (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2014).

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Barn Owls Chicago Penguins New Zealand 219

10,000 Birds

JUNE 12, 2011

Platypus have bills, bats and bugs can fly, and reptiles lay eggs, but only birds have feathers. Fortunately, Hansen does not beat you over the head with too much information all at once. Feathers are the unique ingredient when it comes to birds.

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Reptiles Bats Eggs Humane 207

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

With populations plunging dramatically over the last decade, researchers from the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, Birds Russia, and a number of other conservation organizations made the always-controversial call to pluck eggs from the imperiled wild population and establish a captive breeding program as a final hedge against extinction.

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Eggs Russia Asia Research 164

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AUGUST 23, 2015

To the north they are very unlucky with predation before the eggs even hatch out, but to the south the eggs hatch out and then the predation occurs on the chicks. A normally quiet species, that walks a lot more than it flies, takes on a whole new role once it has laid eggs.

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Feral Cats Eggs Feral Cats 160

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AUGUST 14, 2013

We hope that our journey will provide important information about many Neotropical bird species as well as inform conservation.” Clutch size, incubation period, time to fledge, and eggs are all undescribed. For more information on the Sinaloa Martin you can visit these sites: [link].

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South America San Diego Mexico America 208

10,000 Birds

JULY 31, 2022

Since I found the first Pied Oystercatcher nest on Cable Beach in July 2000 I have learnt that the eggs rarely hatch due to predation and if they do hatch then a fully fledged chick is a rare and wonderful outcome. This year has been like other years with the first eggs being laid late June and the first chicks hatching recently.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

One scientists posits that harvesting of horseshoe crabs (their eggs are a preferred Red Knot food source) at a crucial refueling stop on the birds’ migration could be part of the problem. Let’s hope the netted birds provide more information that points researchers to solutions. News Conservation Red Knots research'

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Science Massachusetts Research Eggs 172

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 21, 2012

In this way, the cuckolding Cuckoo can convince its cuckoldee, the Reed Warbler, to back off when the Cuckoo comes around, allowing the Cuckoo to toss out one of the Warbler’s eggs and replace it with one of its own, to be raised by the hapless Warbler parents. However, Reed Warblers are social learners.

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Hungary 2012 Science Eggs 179

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JUNE 16, 2011

One of the most interesting differences between birds and dinosaurs has to do with their eggs. A subset of dinosaurs including birds had changes in their skeleton that allowed for larger egs and/or more eggs to be managed by the female, for instance. The nature, distribution, and evolution of bird song is unclear.

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Birds Marsupials Primates Whales 271

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AUGUST 3, 2021

Signaling theory examines communication between individuals and groups, within and across species, focusing on whether signals–communications containing complex information–are honest or deceptive and how the exchange of these signals impacts the individuals involved and the larger group or groups to which they belong.

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North America Research Birds America 279

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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 192

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 24, 2022

The Southern Red-bi lled Hornbill is another species that the HBW has not gotten around to providing separate entries for yet, unlike Wikipedia, which provides some information on the split from other Red-billed Hornbills. Probably Wikipedia is more specialized on birds than the HBW. ” I am not sure I like this idea much, though.

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South Africa Africa Seals China 240

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NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Egg harvesting to sell as food was intensive then, with thousands taken annually from the breeding colonies in Chile. Egg collection for local consumption still continues at lower scale. Conservation organizations such as the Flamingo Specialist Group is actively trying to inform the public on the vulnerability of flamingos.

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Chile Endangered Species Eggs Argentina 155

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

As you can easily judge from the dullness of this information, it is not something I made up but rather an appalling example of nepotism in the naming of birds. In providing this information, they quote extensively from an ornithology book that was published 3 years before I was born (and I am not a young man).

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China Birds Pythons Eagles 259

10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2019

Today, we know a little more, such as the fact that an eagle couple produces one egg every two years, but numbers remain low, too low. And, he tells us about the time he was attacked by a parent Philippine Eagle as he handled an egg at the nest, hundreds of feet above the ground. This film could not be made without them.

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Eagles Philippines Eggs Monkeys 203

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 12, 2019

If you like this kind of information – and who wouldn`t – I recommend the website where I found this, [link]. Want to see a bird shaped like an egg? Something I learned while preparing this post is that Niltava is one of the few bird names derived from the Nepali language, where the local Rufous-bellied Niltava has the name “niltau”.

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Malaysia Birds Asia Morals 238

10,000 Birds

JULY 16, 2012

Some might contest this, saying that Dr. Seuss’s Horton Hatches An Egg precedes Eastman’s book by twenty years. But since Horton is an elephant, and since the creature that hatches from the egg is an elephant-bird, I’m going to wait till 10,000 Birds does a Hybrid Bird Week before discussing this representative of the Seussiverse.

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Switzerland Birds Owls Lions 243

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JULY 2, 2024

It is pointedly not an identification guide, though there is a lot of identification information in it, and it is not a coffee table book, though every page is illustrated. I knew I was going to see stunning images, I didn’t expect so much natural history and identification information. 41; © 2024 by Pete Dunne and Kevin T.

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North America America 2006 Delaware 264

10,000 Birds

JULY 1, 2014

Roth; the informative, graceful text is by Susan L. 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. Roth and Cindy Trumbore. Other Europeans came.

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Puerto Rico Parrots New York City 2013 246

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AUGUST 13, 2014

” You can get more information on this declining species at the Tricolored Blackbird Portal. ” The report continues: “Following the breeding season, most tricolors are found in the Sacramento Valley where they aggregate with red-winged and other blackbird species and feed, often in large flocks, on ripening rice. .

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Blackbirds California 2014 Sacramento 200

10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2015

And scrambled eggs,” added Hilary Lewis. “I Bottom line: so many of these well-meaning people picked up their information from the internet, from pet supply companies, or from – cringe – even veterinarians. The only source of good information is a well-established wildlife center. wrote Maryjane Angelo.

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Hamburgers Squirrels Wildlife Rehabilitation Chickens 250

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Our local guide, Stuart, informed us that the small flags flying in front of some structures advertised what they sold: white for dairy, yellow for homemade wine, and red for meat. Rock Hyrax Stuart provided a wonderful field lunch alongside a stream with samosas, a field-standard hard-boiled egg, and other snacks.

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Lesotho Sheep Groundhogs South Africa 245

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2012

As a Northeast birder I am familiar with the alarming decrease in the number of Red Knots along Atlantic shores and have signed petitions and written e-mails calling for legislation and rules that will limit the overharvesting of the horseshoe crab, whose eggs Red Knots depend on. The visual beauty and textual facts are a strong combination.

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Delaware New Jersey Eggs Research 195

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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. The male and female position themselves close to each other, on top or in back, so that the eggs are fertilized as the female releases them.

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Reptiles Madagascar Family New York City 202

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NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The “Owls and Albatrosses” chapter, for example, begins with Doug’s personal experiences observing of the nesting strategies of Malleefowl and a Moluccan Megapode, Australasian “chickens who lay their eggs in unusual ways and do not parent. It’s a lot of information concentrated into 11 pages.

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Science Albatross Research Owls 243

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

But a Bewick’s Wren did build a nest, which it promptly abandoned before laying any eggs. We at NestWatch are very excited that this group has burst onto the scene and quickly become our primary source of information about this species. So, how many chicks hatched in my two boxes? Others had more luck.

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OCTOBER 4, 2021

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. Breeding in Northern Japan and wintering in the Phillippines, some seem to take a migratory rest stop (and slight deviation) at the Shanghai coast.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

” Since there is no sexual dimorphism between the male and female Bank Swallow you really can’t tell them apart until they begin incubating eggs, at which point the female will have a brood patch and the male will not. You can find more information on the State of the Birds on their website [link].

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North America 2014 California America 199

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2013

Click here for more information on his photography. You can click here for more information about Year of the Eagle. I didn’t get to witness such cooperation in the second year of the project, as only one egg hatched. Year of the Eagle is his third book. Thanks to instinct, the story goes, it was hatched knowing how.

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Eagles Bald Eagle Seattle Game 208

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JULY 3, 2012

This is worrying because paired birds generally only lay one egg and the breeding cycle can be very irregular. For more information on these stunning creatures and the beautiful country of Botswana , feel free to view our episode below. This is due to the fact that only around 13% of paired birds successfully fledge a young bird.

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