10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 1, 2021
It has come time to put together another blog entry and I find myself bed ridden with a bad back so I will share a brief description of some of my local birds. If she is impressed, she accepts his one single contribution to the raising of the next generation. She makes the nest, incubates the eggs and feeds the young solo.
10,000 Birds
JULY 21, 2022
Blog readers sharing their house with a noisy teenager may consider replacing him or her with a Brown-headed Parrot , given this statement on a pet website : “Brown-Headed Parrot boasts another very desirable trait – these are very quiet parrots! Studies on improving ostrich egg hatchability. Ostriches originated in Asia.
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10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 8, 2022
In contrast, the females need to make sure not to get duped into raising actual cuckoos – the buntings are a targeted host species ( source ). Fortunately for the buntings, they seem to detect most cuckoo eggs smuggled in (75% in one study). Maybe there is some justice in this world after all. Better safe than sorry.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 1, 2022
After returning once more from Nanhui and almost admiring the extent of ongoing destruction there, what better song to start this blog post than with excerpts from the song “Give up” by The Burning Hell? Apparently, after a male first mates with a female, he throws out the first one or two eggs she lays in their nest.
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.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
Of course, it is hard to resist looking at a paper titled “Host personality predicts cuckoo egg rejection in Daurian redstarts” Basically, the personality of a female redstart (bold or shy) predicts the responses to parasitic eggs – bold hosts are more likely to reject parasitic eggs. Not this one though.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 20, 2018
Christo, like a sensible Darwinian creature, has been trying it out with a number of other candidates to put eggs in his nest. This has been reported extensively in my favorite neighborhood blog, E.V. And to ‘raise awareness’ is such a nebulous thing. Cue scandal!
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