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The Beautiful and Colorful Mourning Dove

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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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Why do birds living near Chernobyl have smaller brains?

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Alternatively, imagine I set the dial to produce simple heat, like the kind that comes out of your stove to cook your scrambled eggs. The kind of energy produced by a cell phone signal is way more like the heat that cooks your eggs than like the scary radiation that comes form an H-bomb or X-ray machine or whatever.

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Starlings and Eagles

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To assess their populations, draw their blood, test them for lead, and discover what kind of impact feeding on gut piles might have on these iconic raptors, particularly the young ones, as hunting season begins in Montana. To gain knowledge of migration routes, wintering sites, survival rates. To understand, and thus to protect. I salute you.

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A Strategic Arms Race Among Birds

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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. The authors tested the idea that brood parisites benefit, in terms of fitness, by targeting species with the helper-at-the-nest strategy. They looked at fairy-wrens and cuckoos.

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Best* Bird Books, Binoculars, Bottles** of Booze, and Backpacks of the Bygone Year

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The guide, one of the last offerings in the Peterson Field Guide series from publisher HMH, shows photos of nests of most North American species and describes nest structure, location, how the bird makes the nest, number of eggs, and what the eggs look like. Donna). ==. But craziness is not a requisite.

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