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USDA announces additional $1B toward H5N1 efforts

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Department of Agriculture announced February 26 a $1 billion strategy to mitigate highly pathogenic avian influenza type A H5N1 by assisting the poultry industry with the hopes of lowering egg prices.

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Pied Oystercatchers and Sand Goannas

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We have often suspected that the Sand Goannas would steal eggs as a food source from the Pied Oystercatcher nests if they found them. The two pairs should have been close to hatching their eggs from their first clutch. The pair of Pied Oystercatchers to the north have now laid a second clutch of two more eggs.

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Pied Oystercatcher breeding season is here again!

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Well, not quite like clockwork, because this year one pair of Pied Oystercatchers on Cable Beach laid their first clutch of eggs a bit earlier than normal. This year the first clutch was laid at the end of May and this is the first time we have had eggs laid in May along Cable Beach since 2000. Pied Oystercatchers feeding alone.

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Northern Potoo

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Besides the avian attributes of flight, feathers and laying eggs, potoos are quite possibly the most unbird-like birds in the world. Another really bizarre attribute of the potoos is their seemingly casual behavior of laying eggs on bare branches without any attempt to build nests.

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Birding the Datang area, Yunnan

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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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Nesting Red-capped Plovers

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We have also observed pairs of Pied Oystercatchers choosing sand over rocks and each pair appears to use the same strategy year after year. Red-capped Plover nest We have mostly observed Red-capped Plover nests with two eggs, so she may well have laid another egg by now.

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Saving the Spotted Owl—Zalea’s Story: A KidLit Bird Book Review

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Canadian artist Alexandra Finkeldey ’s illustrations capture that incredible cuteness, while her intricate work for the sections such as the breeding center, egg development, and life cycle ground the book in its nonfiction reality. From an art perspective, there’s not much cuter than a baby owl, with all its fluff and roundness and big eyes.

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