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 190

South America Eggs Raised America 190

10,000 Birds

JULY 15, 2024

A paper on the species asks the important question “Does nest sanitation elicit egg rejection in an open-cup nesting cuckoo host rejecter?” ” To rephrase: if you put some trash into a nest of a bird along with a cuckoo egg, does that improve the chance that the cuckoo egg will be kicked out? How to find out?

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Eggs Birds Japan Myanmar 246

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2024

It’s quite amazing how birds that we are used to seeing much of the year on coastal mudflats, exploiting the intertidal, change their habits and take to the hills to raise their young. Oystercatcher Haematopus ostralegus Shorebirds take the limelight. Here on Shetland, it is the larger shorebirds that immediately catch the eye.

Puffins 264

Puffins Raised Breeding Africa 264

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 248

Montana Horses Eggs Morals 248

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 246

Australia Eggs Raised Birds 246

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2015

And of eggs and nests and birds on nests. Into the Nest , as the title says, is about the courting, mating, egg-laying, nesting, and parenting behavior of “familiar birds”. Cedar Waxwings exchange berries, carry nesting material, eggs. Egg biology, from Part I. Oops, the curmudgeon in me slipped.) Peregrine Falcon nests.

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Eggs Family 2006 New York 263

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.

Eggs 190

Eggs Louisiana Breeding Asia 190

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.

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Breeding Eggs Camels Shelters 182

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 260

Italy China France Eggs 260

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.

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Asia Australia Eggs Raised 279

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.

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Feral Cats Eggs Feral Cats 182

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 218

Blackbirds Mexico Birds Cattle 218

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 189

2002 Feral Cats Eggs 2007 189

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

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 182

Eggs Raised Birds 182

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.

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Eggs 2000 Family Breeding 191

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 210

Eggs Puffins Breeding Albatross 210

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 207

Breeding Eggs Raised Protection 207

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

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 225

Hungary Eggs Abandoning Abandonment 225

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.

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Bald Eagle Chickens North America Birds 250

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.

South America 211

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.

Feral Cats 162

Feral Cats Eggs Feral Raised 162

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 242

Hunting Battery Raised Adoptable 242

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 240

Wildlife Rehabilitation Parrots Game Eggs 240

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 199

Montana Woodpeckers Eggs Raised 199

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 216

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 264

Trinidad Abandonment Abandoning Abandon 264

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 264

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.

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Senegal Cats South Africa 2011 259

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.

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Singapore Uganda Malaysia Seals 231

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 208

Eggs Dogs Shelters Family 208

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Finally, the Azure-winged Magpie raises a hen-and-egg question: What was first, the color of the bird or the color of the Tibetan prayer flag? Understated elegance is also something the White-browed Tit is rather good at.

China 250

China Mongolia Birds Russia 250

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. million in the late 1990’s. Should the gulls be controlled?

Delaware 237

Delaware New Jersey Eggs Medical Research 237

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 28, 2014

Among birds the Egyptian Vulture uses rocks to crack Ostrich eggs, the New Caledonian Crow and Woodpecker Finch (one of several Darwin Finches of the Galapagos Islands), uses sticks to extract grubs from inside a branch. Egyptian Vultures raised is isolation used rocks to crack eggs presented to them. The behavior was inherent.

Fish 176

Fish Ostriches Woodpeckers Breeders 176

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

But a Bewick’s Wren did build a nest, which it promptly abandoned before laying any eggs. But perhaps “tweets” simply went out that Aldea is a great place to raise chicks. Hopefully, we can increase its numbers through preservation and permaculture, as well as the Mountain Chickadee and Bewick’s Wren, which are also declining.

2017 202

2017 New Mexico Groups Abandoning 202

10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2024

Being a westerner — raised in California, and now living in western Mexico — I was perhaps most excited about the migratory birds that breed in eastern North America. And then there was a Green Heron , not only showing us its nest, but also an egg. Then, around 4:00 p.m., And yet, there it was. But what could I do?

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Mexico Birds Raccoons Baltimore 246