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Inside a Bald Eagle’s Nest: A Photographic Journey through the American Bald Eagle Nesting Season

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the book follows through mating and egg-laying, incubation and hatching, and the rearing of three young to successful fledging. (with a view of the Capitol, no less!)

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The Everglade Snail Kite Is Making a Comeback

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Native snails lay 20-50 eggs at a time during the spring. Exotic snails lay 300-500 eggs at a time, lay eggs throughout the year, and are more resistant to environmental changes. Eggs of the native apple snail (left), and the exotic apple snail (right).

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What’s Inside a Bird’s Nest: A KidLit Bird Book Review

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With her drawing of embryo development inside the egg, Ignotofsky noted that she likes when “I get to draw gross things and make it pretty.” addresses far more than nests, including sections on courtship, song, pair bonding, egg development, food, predators, bird growth, anatomy and feather development, migration and the cycle of life.

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Thousands of Tricolored Blackbirds Saved Through Farmer/Conservationist Partnership

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In these situations, the birds have been treated like pests and targeted for extermination, or lost their eggs and nestlings to harvesting of the fields. ’s National Resources Conservation Service has kept 65,000 Tricoloreds from meeting a grim fate. federal level, and a Species of Special Concern in California.

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Think Outside Of The Nest Box

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I was shocked when I saw a hen Mallard actually incubating eggs in one of these things–they do work…and how do the mallards get in there? It’s called Woodworking for Wildlife and even though it’s put out by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, it can apply in other areas as well.

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A Nest for Every Swallow

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In fact, it seems like Violet-green swallows will nest anywhere they can fit in an egg and someone to incubate it. Though they face stiff competition from birds like House Wrens , to say nothing of each other, they are not without resources. And that’s why they caution you about assumptions.

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An unusual auk baby

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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. Others invest much more effort into fewer young, giving a smaller number a much better start. Seabirds are one group of birds that go for the latter strategy.

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