10,000 Birds

JULY 15, 2012

There are thousands of shorebirds that visit Broome each year and the majority of them are now in the northern hemisphere hopefully sitting on eggs. Not all of our shorebird species migrate and those that reside here are also currently sitting on eggs, or thinking about laying eggs in the upcoming weeks.

Eggs 247

Eggs Raised Breeding Species 247

10,000 Birds

JUNE 15, 2016

As a backup plan, researchers captured some Spoonies in Siberia in 2011 and brought them to England , where they’ve been raised at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT) in Slimbridge, Gloucestershire. Two different females among the captive group have laid eggs , and scientists are keeping a watchful eye on a few others.

Louisiana 190

Louisiana Eggs Breeding Asia 190

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 18, 2020

These were Torresian Crows that realised that the Channel-billed Cuckoos were likely to try and lay eggs in their nest, so they could raise their young for them. They had arrived from Asia and were being chased away by Torresian Crows. The following morning, 12th October, we heard the familiar sound of a Dollarbird calling.

Asia 278

Asia Australia Eggs Raised 278

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2014

The two have built up a devoted following through years of triumph – like last season, when they fledged three young – and tragedy – like the season before, when their eggs didn’t even hatch. Ozzie and Harriet with the 2013 brood.

Montana 221

Montana Horses Eggs Morals 221

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.

Eggs 165

Eggs Raised Breeding Family 165

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

There is also the Pheasant Coucal , which is unique in the fact that it does not put its eggs into another species of birds nest, but sits on its own eggs and raises its own young. It was a juvenile bird and no doubt its parents had used one of the many Paperbark Flycatchers nests to lay its eggs in.

Australia 188

Australia Eggs Raised Species 188

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Male Phalaropes, Jacanas, Tinamous, and Rheas build nests, incubate the eggs and take care of the chicks. Females then begin to lay eggs in the nest the male prepared. If too many females join a harem and lay eggs in a single nest, the male will not be able to incubate all the eggs properly. Photo: Liam Quinn.

South America 158

South America Eggs Raised America 158

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.

Breeding 161

Breeding Eggs Camels Shelters 161

10,000 Birds

APRIL 27, 2023

According to the McMurray hatchery , the “Silver Pheasant is considered a good ‘starter’ breed for people who want to learn more about raising pheasants” Hm. In one group, they added a blue egg to their nests. In the other, they added both such an egg and a peanut half-shell. What a weird world.

Italy 233

Italy China France Eggs 233

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

I soon noticed the shallow nest scrape, but there were not any eggs in it yet. Hopefully they will soon lay eggs and raise young on Squeaky Beach. They lead you away from the area that they are nesting in or attempting to nest in. Hooded Plover nest scrape. Hooded Plover on nest scrape.

Australia 201

Australia Eggs Raised Birds 201

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 26, 2015

In such cases, the spurned donor has been observed helping to raise the brood. So there may be duplicity in the Dunnock household, but even the female can’t be sure whose chick she is raising. It has been suggested that the female could select her provisional male on his ability to provide for a brood of chicks.

Sparrows 165

Sparrows Eggs Raised Breeding 165

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 23, 2015

There are sixteen pairs of Pied Oystercatchers and they have varying success at raising young birds. 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.

Feral Cats 161

Feral Cats Eggs Feral Cats 161

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2017

Laysan albatrosses are ocean-dwelling seabirds who have 6-foot wingspans, weigh 7-8 pounds, occasionally sleep while flying, and rarely land except to raise their chicks. The oldest Laysan albatross was last seen raising a chick on Midway Atoll in 2016, at age 66. They are docile and devoted parents who will not leave their nests.

Albatross 214

Albatross Honolulu Hawaii Killing 214

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2011

The first eggs are laid during the first week of July each year and if these eggs fail to hatch or the chicks are lost they will lay further eggs within a few weeks. Sadly a lot of eggs are lost to feral cats and chicks are sometimes taken by birds of prey. Nest site with 3 eggs-one white!

2002 169

2002 Feral Cats Eggs 2007 169

10,000 Birds

JUNE 22, 2011

I don’t know how many of you ever raised chickens but the old joke went something like this. Here’s a photo of a House Finch nest before the eggs hatch and the hatchlings start producing fecal sacs. Well, as it turns out, it’s really uric acid (the white part of the poop). The dark part is undigested feces.

Bald Eagle 250

Bald Eagle Chickens North America Birds 250

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2011

Probably one of the most familiar nests to North American birders, their eggs are known well enough to have a color named after them and many individuals are acclimatized to people, which means that they are comfortable enough to nest near our buildings. … a.

Eggs 161

Eggs Raised Birds 161

10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2013

Once again Pied Oystercatcher breeding season is fast approaching in Broome and we can expect the first batch of eggs to be laid within the next few weeks. We have also discovered that they are very rarely successful with the first eggs laid due to predation of either the eggs or the chicks.

Eggs 196

Eggs Breeding Australia Raised 196

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2012

Wood Duck ( Aix sponsa ) Female Incubating Eggs in a Nest Box “Many species of cavity-nesting birds have declined because of habitat reduction. This is the female incubating eggs in the nest box… and a couple of weeks later… then, at the ripe old age of 17 days, what’s going on out here?

North America 248

North America America Barn Owls Fur 248

10,000 Birds

APRIL 30, 2013

Troupials raise their own chicks, generally 3 to 4 per clutch, they just steal the nest in which they raise them. Granted, occasionally these nests are themselves, occupied, and the troupials are not averse to kicking out the previous occupants – eggs, chicks, and all – but rest assured they are not dead-beat parents.

Baltimore 199

Baltimore Broker North America Raised 199

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.

Dissection 259

Dissection Birds Europe Eggs 259

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Having successfully claimed ownership of the nest, the Piratic Flycatchers move in, lay and incubate their eggs, and ultimately raise their young in the pirated nest. Targeting a nest that is just approaching completion, the flycatchers persistently annoy the builders until they eventually abandon the nest. Piratic Flycatcher.

Trinidad 256

Trinidad Abandoning Abandon Abandonment 256

10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2020

But when raised, they seem to have a sort of weird cape. In other words, they never raise their own young. Instead, they lay their eggs in other species’ nests, and let those nest-making birds (often significantly smaller than the cowbirds) raise their young. So that is a negative mark on both their records.

Blackbirds 168

Blackbirds Mexico Cattle Birds 168

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 25, 2019

We continue to have egg predation at many of the nest sites and chick loss, but one pair of Pied Oystercatchers is being successful in raising two chicks so far. There has never been two eggs hatch and two chicks survive for more than about ten days since we started to keep an eye on them in 2000.

Eggs 157

Eggs 2000 Family Breeding 157

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2012

We raised this little fella to a young adult. One could have been just another cat-triggered tragedy ( keep your cats indoors ) turned into an unforgettable experience… My wife and I (retired) had a truly wonderful experience at the end of 2011 when our cat brought in a newly hatched Dikkop.

Senegal 250

Senegal Cats South Africa 2011 250

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2012

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. Unique among the auks, indeed among seabirds, they will attempt to double brood, to lay another clutch after successfully raising the first chick.

Eggs 173

Eggs Puffins Breeding Albatross 173

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 8, 2015

Egg loss to predation has been extraordinarily bad this year and all of the nests mentioned in the last post were lost and all of the pairs of Pied Oystercatchers laid a new clutch of eggs. In fact they have not just laid once again, but many pairs have laid up to five clutches of eggs this season.

Breeding 137

Breeding Eggs 2011 2008 137

10,000 Birds

JUNE 15, 2012

He had two major strikes against him: one, he had been found and raised alone by someone with little knowledge of birds, and so was imprinted. Energetically sticking his head out, then in, then back out a different hole was a vaguely sinister-looking brown bird, obviously outraged that someone had the nerve to put him in there. “He

Wildlife Rehabilitation 213

Wildlife Rehabilitation Parrots Game Eggs 213

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2012

Back on the bank it gave itself a doggy shake to dry out and held its feathers slightly raised from its body to help them dry, making itself look even bigger than it already was. The clutch of a Goliath Heron would usually consist of 3-4 pale blue eggs that would hatch after about 4 weeks.

Hunting 204

Hunting Battery Raised Adoptable 204

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2013

House Wrens use this decoy system when predators arrive in their territory, they’ll defend a decoy nest rather than an actual nest in hopes that the nest raider won’t find the eggs or chicks. A pair of wrens actually raised some young in this box. Here’s the inside of a Wood Duck box that has been wrenned.

Industry 169

Industry Ducks Eggs Raised 169

10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2012

They are often raised by single mothers after their deadbeat dads disappear: Once the pair have mated, the female lays a clutch of three to six eggs and the male bird may abandon the female to take-up a new territory, in attempt to mate with additional females. You know what is interesting about Barred Warblers?

Hungary 185

Hungary Eggs Abandon Abandoning 185

10,000 Birds

MAY 10, 2020

The adult Pied Oystercatcher that is sitting on the eggs will lay as flat as possible to protect the eggs. The adult Black Kites will no doubt find enough roadkill to raise their young. We really don’t like the presence of Black Kites along the beach when the Pied Oystercatchers are breeding.

Breeding 162

Breeding Eggs Raised Protection 162

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.

Hungary 181

Hungary 2012 Science Eggs 181

10,000 Birds

JULY 26, 2013

In fact, it seems like Violet-green swallows will nest anywhere they can fit in an egg and someone to incubate it. In fact, they can be surprising in their subtlety: “One report documented a pair of Violet-greens assisting a pair of Western Bluebirds in raising young.

Montana 165

Montana Woodpeckers Eggs Raised 165

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.

Eggs 181

Eggs Dogs Shelters Family 181

10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2019

I couldn’t help thinking this–me, the anthropomorphism hater– as I watched a pair of Philippine Eagles tend their nest, raise a chick, and tear monkeys apart in Bird of Prey: The Story of the Rarest Eagle on Earth , a well-crafted, beautifully filmed documentary with a mission. The Philippine Eagle has a kind face.

Eagles 203

Eagles Philippines Eggs Monkeys 203

10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2014

Okay, they weren’t as fascinating as the birds of prey eating their, or the frankly still weird drawings of nightjars carrying eggs and woodcocks carrying chicks, but still, hornbills were cool because they sealed their mates up in holes in trees and then fed them as they raised the chick.

Singapore 194

Singapore Uganda Malaysia Seals 194

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.

United Kingdom 166

United Kingdom Brazil Eggs Abandon 166