10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

The Channel-billed Cuckoos will attempt to deposit their eggs in the nests of the Torresian Crows. Torresian Crows can be very vocal in a group calling out “arr, arr, arr, arr” There’s actually a rather bad joke about why they get hit by trucks-they can’t say “truck”-only “car”!

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

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. The herders are nomadic groups that move sheep from place to place, staying in brick structures that dot the landscape.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Fortunately for the buntings, they seem to detect most cuckoo eggs smuggled in (75% in one study). A study found that for Plain Prinia , egg characteristics in a mainland China location with many cuckoos make it much easier to spot cuckoo eggs than in a Taiwan location with few cuckoos ( source ). Better safe than sorry.

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Birds Eggs Bangladesh China 213

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2024

This laughingthrush is a cooperative breeder – nestlings are fed by all members of a group, often 6-12 (not just 2 as in Wham!): “A female may share a nest with another, and 3 or more adults may take turns incubating the eggs and feeding the chicks.” ” ( source ).

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2023

Today, the national forest park is open to tourists – which in China means large groups of people in similarly large buses. 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.

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Eggs China Birds Mammals 170

Critter News

APRIL 10, 2009

Sometime soon, David Radlo of Radlo Foods says his sign in front of the former DeCoster Egg Farm will be coming down and all his business at the massive egg operation in Turner will come to an end. Instead, Eggland's Best says it will get classic brown eggs from other locations. Here's a link to the investigative video.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 15, 2016

Two different females among the captive group have laid eggs , and scientists are keeping a watchful eye on a few others. While it’s still a bit early to say how many of the eggs will develop into healthy chicks, this is wonderful news for the Spoonies and their fans worldwide.

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Eggs Louisiana Breeding Asia 190

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2020

The proprietor of our ecolodge guides my small group of birders up a steep slope where we see, just at the point where a scope view deteriorates into pixels, a huge bird—a Chaco Eagle, also known as a Crowned Eagle—on a huge nest. McWilliam realizes he’s dealing someone special, a career falcon egg-thief. Author Joshua Hammer.

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Falcons United Kingdom Zimbabwe Eggs 216

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2023

If the male’s color fades after the first egg, the female reacts by laying a smaller second egg – seemingly deciding that it is better to cut her losses as the male apparently is the avian equivalent of a deadbeat father. At Sepilok, it can be hard to avoid taking photos of some non-birds, such as primates.

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Woodpeckers Birds Eggs India 215

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Birders are always happy to see a turtle or tortoise, and there are times of the year when my social media feeds are sprinkled with photos of turtles beings removed from roads or crawling to land to lay eggs. The fact box also includes a small distribution map showing where the species in the group are found, highlighted in red.

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Turtles Tortoises Family Terrapins 203

10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2020

Instead, they lay their eggs in other species’ nests, and let those nest-making birds (often significantly smaller than the cowbirds) raise their young. In fact, this is not even a particularly large group. This is a rather typical group size for Bronzed Cowbirds. So that is a negative mark on both their records.

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Birds Blackbirds Mexico Cattle 156

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

The Aldea Birding Group that spearheaded this project placed 70 nest boxes in our open spaces and pulled in volunteers to monitor them during the bird’s mating season. But a Bewick’s Wren did build a nest, which it promptly abandoned before laying any eggs. Well, as a birder, how can you resist getting involved? Others had more luck.

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2017 New Mexico Groups Abandon 158

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 header photo shows the small group of trees where the Black Kites have chosen to nest this year. We really don’t like the presence of Black Kites along the beach when the Pied Oystercatchers are breeding.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2021

By the size of the juvenile birds the adults must have laid the eggs several months ago when the rains came to that area of Western Australia. One family of Yellow-billed Spoonbills all lined up together on the one branch over the river and made for an impressive group of birds. Juvenile and adult Yellow-billed Spoonbill.

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Breeding Australia Cattle Family 242

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.

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Eggs Feral Cats Feral Raised 109

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2022

Studies on improving ostrich egg hatchability. Also, I learned that in the US , ostrich eggs are priced at $40-$75. Each fresh egg weighs 4 pounds and is the equivalent of 24 chicken eggs. . Together these family groups form a clan and the clans defend this territory from other neighboring clans.

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Ostriches Parrots Birds Eggs 147

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2013

The diving, piscivorous grebes were usually grouped with loons. Long-legged, long-necked flamingos have over the years been grouped variously with storks, waterfowl, and the stilts and avocets. The groups do, contrary to van Tuinen et al.’s ” Some morphologists, notably Brad Livezey, Richard L. Zusi and Robert W.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 17, 2023

This has obviously involved the active targeting of Moruga Grasshopper eggs and young, and an all-out attack involving chemical warfare. The whole reason I was exploring this area can be traced to a report of multiple sightings of small groups of the migratory Yellow-billed Cuckoo.

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Trinidad Squirrels Investigation Bears 147

10,000 Birds

JULY 1, 2018

This year is the eighteenth year since we discovered our first Pied Oystercatcher nest on Cable Beach in Broome and it didn’t take us long to realise that they are not at all successful at raising young due to egg and chick predation. Each year we hope for anther success, but so far it has not happened. Pied Oystercatcher nest.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

It depicted a Common Loon ( Gavia immer ) sitting on eggs on a seemingly crude nest. A preliminary sketch The written part is by no means a detailed account of the species but rather a collection of a few interesting and noteworthy points about each bird or group of birds. Common Loon ( Gavia immer) This was a different artist.

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Birds Woodpeckers Canada Collecting 222

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Egg harvesting to sell as food was intensive then, with thousands taken annually from the breeding colonies in Chile. Egg collection for local consumption still continues at lower scale. Conservation organizations such as the Flamingo Specialist Group is actively trying to inform the public on the vulnerability of flamingos.

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Chile Endangered Species Eggs Argentina 154

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

If you have any doubts whether you want to see a Snares Penguin, you can read the species description, directly following, and drink in photos of their bright, droopy yellow eyebrows, bulbous dark-red bills with bare pink skin at the base, and peek at a group of the penguins, walking en masse within the thick island scrub.

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Penguins Georgia New Zealand Albatross 278

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2022

However, it is kind of sophisticated in that the females lay very individualized eggs in order to be able to detect the added eggs of parasite cuckoo finches. If you come across a group on the ground foraging for food, look around and you will find one bird sitting in a vantage point, ready to give the alarm call in case of any danger.

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Zimbabwe Birds South Africa Benin 147

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 31, 2011

In California, coveys break up and pairs begin forming in February or March, followed by nest building and egg laying in May or June. She will usually lay 12 to 17 eggs, averaging five per week 1 , before beginning incubation. Occasionally, larger clutches occur due to egg dumping by other females. www.youtube.com/watch?

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California Eggs Gophers Rattlesnake 224

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The consultant also suggested increasing readership by catering to highly specific niche interest groups. They are also raised commercially for meat and eggs, as described in that beacon of ornithological knowledge, the World’s Poultry Science Journal. I don’t think I will stoop that low.

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Birds China Eggs Owls 202

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 12, 2020

If I had known that these Amanita caesareas smell pleasantly of eggs, I would have taken a sniff. A group of exceedingly tame domestic turkeys had gathered near it, and two had decided it looked like a great roosting site. The variety of their shapes and colors demanded that I turn my camera earthward. Then I saw its shiny partner.

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Turkey Birds Elephants Eggs 262

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

” His classes attracted diverse groups of students, often with little scientific background: “Students have to first pass biology, but most come in knowing next to nothing about birds except that they can fly, that they have feathers, and that they lay eggs.”. But once a week, they were “out the door by 8:05 a.m.

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2018 Agenda Science Eggs 264

10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2017

There were several family groups that included three adult birds, so we presume that these were male Magpie Geese that had two partners. Both of the female Magpie Geese would have laid their eggs in the same nest and there could have been up to sixteen eggs in the nest at any one time. Magpie Goose family-three adults.

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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.

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Eggs Raised Breeding Family 165

10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2016

Least Tern watching over its egg. From where I stood I spotted my very first Least Tern egg of the year, smooth and camouflaged near one of its parents. The Black Skimmers also lay on their stomachs, but I didn’t see their eggs on this trip.

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Eggs Florida Mexico Protection 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2024

Interestingly, only about half of the helpers are related to the breeding pair … … and only the ones not related to the pair gained some parentage, either by sneaking in some sex with the breeding female or by adding an egg. I guess it would not be ok to do this to your own relatives, but with strangers, it is probably ok.

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Birds Indonesia Breeding Charlotte 230

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2021

Signaling theory examines communication between individuals and groups, within and across species, focusing on whether signals–communications containing complex information–are honest or deceptive and how the exchange of these signals impacts the individuals involved and the larger group or groups to which they belong.

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North America Research Birds Groups 279

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The HBW accurately hints at the difficulties of getting a photo of this bird: “Generally hiding deep in shrubbery, where it forages in small groups for seeds on and near the ground, and revealing itself only when singing from the top of a bush, this is not an easy bird to study.”

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China Mongolia Birds Russia 176

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 16, 2015

Actually, I was bested by an entire group of teenagers, all gathered – along with 36 adults – on Hog Island , Audubon’s famous camp off the coast of Maine. Each year Hog Island offers programs, taught by a stellar staff of naturalists and artists, to groups of all kinds (teenagers, adults, families).

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Puffins Birds Groups West Virginia 259

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

From Hiro, we learn how Northern Pygmy Owls are “rule breakers,” not incubating eggs till all are hatched and then raising owlets that mature at the same rate even though the eggs were laid asynchronously (as most owl eggs are). In some ways, this is a puzzling chapter.

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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 217

10,000 Birds

MAY 22, 2019

Cars whiz past the nesting sites, mere feet from where the seabirds incubate their eggs and where their chicks will inevitably explore. Between the grasses growing in tufts here and there, Black Skimmers and Least Terns have begun to nest on the hot sand. At first glance, it seems an odd place to nest.

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Protection Florida Eggs Hunting 113

10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2011

Females seem to be the only sex to sit on the eggs according to literature, but no research appears to have been done on the night time routine. They both take responsibility protecting their young and remain in a family group for a period of time. If you follow the bird you know you will not accidentally stand on any eggs.

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