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JULY 26, 2013

Project Nestwatch elaborates: “Violet-green Swallows nest in cliff crevices, natural tree cavities, woodpecker holes, in old nests of Bank and Cliff Swallow, under the eaves of buildings, and in nest boxes.” In fact, it seems like Violet-green swallows will nest anywhere they can fit in an egg and someone to incubate it.

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JULY 4, 2012

They nest in cavities, created by woodpeckers, in large trees and snags. The female alone incubates the usual 4 to 6 eggs for about two weeks beginning the day the last egg is laid. Living in California, I am of course speaking of the Western Bluebird ( Sialia mexicana ).

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DECEMBER 26, 2012

Yes, these are common birds, yes they sometimes eat eggs and baby birds (even woodpeckers do that) but it’s unbelievable to see that much bird mass in one spot. There are websites that track crow roosts because there’s still quite a bit we don’t know about them. If you haven’t checked out a crow roost do.

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JANUARY 15, 2020

But the Kentish Plover was sheltering its young under its body, and the Little Ringed Plover was incubating an egg — right in the middle of downtown Madrid! Iberian Green Woodpecker, Madrid, Spain. Mexico has a good number of greenish or rusty Woodpeckers. I just haven’t seen any of them.

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JANUARY 3, 2023

and three of the nine woodpeckers illustrated. Woodpeckers are a family of focus for Tuttle-Adams. Woodpeckers nest in cavities and their young are altricial (born in an undeveloped state), which means there is not a lot of documented information about their young and how they look at different stages. Baicich and Colin J.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2024

With the lack of trees, it was a surprise that a woodpecker is still taking up space. In one stretch of rocky outcropping, a group of Ground Woodpeckers foraged along boulders searching for ants and as their name suggests, they forage on the ground in sparsely vegetated country.

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MARCH 21, 2024

And then there was a Green Heron , not only showing us its nest, but also an egg. A Golden-fronted Woodpecker , or Velazquez’s Woodpecker , depending on your preferred taxonomy. This species is relatively common in tropical Mexico, but I certainly never expected to see it nesting in an urban park. And yet, there it was.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The lengthy Introduction gives both a personal history and a global history of birds and art, including brief profiles of John James Audubon and the far lesser known Genevieve Estelle Jones, who conceived of a book eventually called Illustrations of the Nests and Eggs of Birds of Ohio in the late 19th century.

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JULY 1, 2015

When I first approached the nest tree I saw an adult squirrel climbing the snag near the sapsucker entrance and, knowing that squirrels will eat bird eggs and nestlings, I was quite concerned. Williamson’s Sapsuckers have the highest dependence on ants of any North American woodpecker 1. Click on photos for full sized images.

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APRIL 21, 2014

I spent this past weekend in Saugerties at my folks’ house in order to look for Easter eggs, let Desi enjoy time with his cousins, and generally have a good ol’ time with family. I heard a Pileated Woodpecker at the Great Vly I did not see one there. This bird actually flew over my parents’ house on Easter morning.

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JULY 6, 2019

Black-cheeked Woodpecker – Melanerpes pucherani. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh.

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MAY 25, 2022

At the start of this new trail we accidentally flushed a White-tailed Nightjar that was sitting on a lone pink egg. Red-rumped Woodpeckers are the least encountered of the three woodpecker species found on Tobago, and this was only the second time I was able to photograph them properly.

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JULY 13, 2023

The northern half of the lake added Corn Bunting , European Turtle Dove , Dalmatian Pelican , Purple Heron , Eurasian Hobby , Eurasian Golden Oriole , Eurasian Green Woodpecker , and only the first of the several Masked Shrikes of the tour (cover photo by Kostas Papadopoulos).

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APRIL 2, 2013

Pileated Woodpecker, for example. In addition to Pileated Woodpecker, the Second Atlas of Breeding Birds in Pennsylvania documents increases in numbers of Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Hooded Warbler, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Carolina Wren, Alder Flycatcher, Common Raven, Wild Turkey, and, of course, Canada Goose.

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AUGUST 29, 2014

Veronica Bowers calls Cliff Swallows “Chirpies,” Shirah Gantman’s nestling Rock Doves are “Squeakers,” European Starlings are “Hawk Food” to Laura Culley, and all woodpeckers are “Peckers” to Nancy Barbachano, who rehabs them in the Pecker Palace (see Happy Wrens).

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OCTOBER 13, 2022

Another strange aspect – already mentioned further up – is that these owls almost seem to be able to change their shape – from a round egg shape to a very prolonged branch-like shape. Camouflage at its best.

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AUGUST 9, 2018

Birds are able to fly away, but their nests and eggs can be destroyed. Vicki states that fire benefits several bird species, like the Black-backed Woodpecker which feeds off the bark and wood-boring beetles that lay eggs in the charred trees. Fire can also cause wildlife to be burned, dehydrated and malnourished.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Project FeederWatch data prove that woodpeckers are at the top of the backyard bird feeder pecking order. If you’re a cuckoo or cowbird hoping to pawn off your parenting duties on another species, new brood parasitism research shows you’ll have better luck if the eggs you deposit in their nest are blue-green instead of brown.

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MAY 6, 2015

Every spring I look forward to monitoring my bluebird trails when I not only get to watch Western Bluebirds develop from eggs to fledglings, but other cavity nesters as well. You will also hear many other bird species in the background including Ash-throated Flycatcher, California Quail, Eurasian Collared-Dove and Acorn Woodpecker.

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JUNE 19, 2013

Plus the fact that they only lay one egg per season which is incubated for about four weeks and the chicks don’t fledge for another fifty days gives you some notion as to why these birds are a Species of Special Concern. Pairs will also reuse the same nest in consecutive years, adding only a small amount of material to the nest.

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JULY 20, 2023

And for the first time, I saw a Bronzed Cowbird (which lays its eggs in other birds’ nests) checking out one of these nests. Black-chested and Stripe-headed Sparrows , Yellow-winged Caciques , Northern Beardless-Tyrannulets , Thick-billed Kingbirds , Golden-cheeked Woodpeckers , Varied Buntings , they all showed up.

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DECEMBER 7, 2019

Nor are there any birding authorities requiring folks to identify, count and document the nuthatches, titmice and Downy Woodpeckers that come to their backyard feeders. “Pinto” is rice and beans and comes with your choice of eggs, breaded Tilapia, chicken or other options.

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JUNE 5, 2015

And scrambled eggs,” added Hilary Lewis. “I And Heather Merritt gets the grand finale: “People trying to feed wood chips to nestling woodpeckers because ‘that’s what they’re doing up there, isn’t it?’”. wrote Maryjane Angelo. Nestling songbirds fed hamburger and cat food,” wrote Sean O’Brien.

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MARCH 13, 2011

Speaking of pregnant snakes, do sea snakes lay their eggs ashore like sea turtles or do they keep them internally until the young are ready to hatch/ be born, like some sharks? These do lay eggs on land and are (reasonably) mobile once they hit the beach. It seems like there is great diversity in this continent.

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MARCH 7, 2011

This happened to me recently on a birding trip, with somewhat egg-on-the-face results. I was on a birding quest trip with my friend Geoff Heeter. We were driving up to northwestern Michigan from our homes in Ohio (me) and West ByGod Virginia (Geoff) in search of a bird species that would be a lifer for both of us: the Bohemian Waxwing.

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MARCH 11, 2011

With a hardiness that belies their delicate looks (but helps explain their phenomenal success), these pioneering pigeons are already sitting on eggs at at least one location in Montana. So right now I’m feeling pretty good about Eurasian Collared-doves. RECENT POSTS More Habitat for Snowy Plover?

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FEBRUARY 13, 2018

According to eBird, the chronology of my life list includes White-Headed Woodpecker at No. Lifers included Painted Redstart, Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher, Arizona Woodpecker, and Rivoli’s, Violet-crowned, Lucifer, and Broad-billed hummingbird. I am a westerner who has lived in San Francisco and Portland my entire birding life.

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JUNE 7, 2022

The Eurasian Wryneck is the woodpecker that doesn’t look like a woodpecker, the bird with the portmanteau name that is also a medical condition (and which may remind some people of a Nora Ephron essay). But they are woodpeckers: the genus Jynx of the subfamily Jynginae of the Picidae family. It’s an open question.

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JUNE 24, 2024

There is not really much scientific information about the Laced Woodpecker , and the scientific species name vittatus (“banded, ribboned”) does not give me much to talk about either. As with many woodpeckers, the sexes are color-coded, with the red forehead indicating the male. ” And why not.

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JANUARY 5, 2023

In the past, Great Spotted Woodpeckers mostly lived off renting out their old apartments to other species. Fortunately for the Great Spotted Woodpecke r living in Shennongjia, this has not happened here yet. However, with time it has gotten better at rejecting eggs that do not mimic its own eggs well.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2023

It depicted a Common Loon ( Gavia immer ) sitting on eggs on a seemingly crude nest. There were waterbirds and raptors, owls and woodpeckers, thrushes, grosbeaks and crossbills, and of course those charming and indispensable new world warblers. Common Loon ( Gavia immer) This was a different artist. tridactylus).

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MARCH 6, 2023

Apparently , they use the presence of their own eggs as a cue for recognizing parasitic eggs – so without the presence of their own eggs as a template they fail to recognize a parasitic egg. Some individuals even rejected their own eggs when they were in the minority.

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JULY 18, 2012

Current well-intentioned environmental pressures to emphasize harvesting large dead or dying trees, if realized, would have further adverse effects on such ecologically and esthetically important species as woodpeckers, swallows, wrens, nuthatches, and owls – to name a few 1.”

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MAY 2, 2011

If I had to guess I would say that the hole had been excavated by a Downy Woodpecker as a winter roost hole, but that is raw speculation and I really have no idea, though at one point during the five minutes I watched the wren drove a female Downy Woodpecker away from the vicinity of the hole. ……… a.

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MARCH 19, 2011

As I watched, it slowly moved into a patch of dried vegetation and I noticed that it was settling over a single egg. Two or three eggs may be laid and either bird may incubate. Sondra Mar 22nd, 2011 at 6:29 pm AN excellent series and how COOL to see the egg–chicks will soon be in the picture! I am around to learn more.

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OCTOBER 17, 2022

The Golden-tailed Woodpecker shares something with the German flag – it is called golden-tailed even though to me the color of its tail is yellow, not golden. No doubt the woodpecker has similar considerations. She also laid eggs in Melba Finch nests. Greater Blue-eared Starlings prefer not to rely on hired hands.

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DECEMBER 15, 2012

Red Junglefowl by Mike Bergin Clare Kines chose an egg as his Best Bird of the Year. an unhatched Red-throated Loon by Clare Kines Like Duncan, Larry Jordan had a difficult time picking his Best Bird of the Year but he eventually chose a woodpecker. And, no, I am not kidding. What is it that makes a bird the best or the year?

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