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Somewhere Over the Rainbow, Bluebirds Fly

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The female alone incubates the usual 4 to 6 eggs for about two weeks beginning the day the last egg is laid. Here you can see two chicks have already hatched, one egg is split open with the chick ready to emerge and one egg has a hole in it pipped by the chick from the inside. i Kamakawiwo?ole’s

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Birding Shanghai in December 2022

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An additional benefit would be less nest predation by tidal mudflat crabs, the primary cause of Reed Parrotbill egg predation in tidal reed-bed habitat ( source ). However, this makes it a bit surprising that it was also named Israel’s national bird. Maybe the parrotbills just need to adapt and put their nests in trees.

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Birding Shanghai in September 2022

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An example is this study showing that indeed, cuckoo eggs are stronger than the eggs of the host species. This is not really an option at Nanhui though. The third raptor of the month was the Black-winged Kite. The fourth and last was the Crested Honey buzzard – a beautiful male.

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Birding Hluhluwe, South Africa

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She also laid eggs in Melba Finch nests. In a study in Israel, migrating Steppe Buzzard s were found to have much higher lice infestation rates than non-migratory Common Buzzards in the same region. Red-billed Firefinch. I have to admit that I also tend to feel a bit itchy after a long flight in economy class.