10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2024

He has written and co-written over 400 scientific papers on brood parasitism, Common Cuckoos, egg rejection and other nesting behaviors, and fairy wren learning in addition to T he Book of Eggs: A Life-Size Guide to the Eggs of Six Hundred of the World’s Bird Species (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2014).

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Chicago Barn Owls Penguins New Zealand 170

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

There’s no information as to when these European colonies died out, but we do know that it was a long time ago. Storks, Ibises and Spoonbills of the World states that “disturbance by local people, tourists, and egg and zoo collectors has similarly reduced the colonies, and more protection is vital”.

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Morocco Austria Algeria Germany 213

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

In some cases, for example Jabiru, the information is tucked away at the end and can’t even be discerned from the range map. Yes, it’s nice to have information on 817 birds, and it’s wonderful to have full descriptions and photographs of birds commonly seen in Central and South America. SPECIES ACCOUNTS.

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North America America Birds California Condor 278

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2022

If instead, you are looking for more specific information on how to do eye surgery of the Wompoo Fruit Dove , I suggest you check out “The Journal of Avian Medicine and Surgery”, which should be available at your local newsstand. But you will certainly like the Wompoo Fruit Dove. I am sure Elvis liked it. ” ( source ).

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Birds Australia Parrots Memphis 147

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

They may be about bird eggs ( The Most Perfect Thing: The Inside (and Outside) of a Bird’s Egg , 2016), or a 17th-century ornithologist ( Virtuoso by Nature: The Scientific Worlds of Francis Willughby, 2016), or How Bullfinches learn songs from humans ( The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology.

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Dissection Birds Research Europe 208

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Our local guide, Stuart, informed us that the small flags flying in front of some structures advertised what they sold: white for dairy, yellow for homemade wine, and red for meat. Rock Hyrax Stuart provided a wonderful field lunch alongside a stream with samosas, a field-standard hard-boiled egg, and other snacks.

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Lesotho Sheep South Africa Africa 214

10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2021

But there are ways to prevent this situation, and to prevent the constant springtime problem of wildlife being orphaned… like these Barred Owls , above left, and Red-Shouldered Hawks , all of whom were delivered as eggs to Christine’s Critters in Weston, CT, thanks to two different private homeowners’ felling of trees. What if you did?”

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Wildlife Game Laws 264

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 278

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 24, 2022

The Southern Red-bi lled Hornbill is another species that the HBW has not gotten around to providing separate entries for yet, unlike Wikipedia, which provides some information on the split from other Red-billed Hornbills. Probably Wikipedia is more specialized on birds than the HBW. ” I am not sure I like this idea much, though.

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South Africa Africa China Seals 196

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 23, 2015

To the north they are very unlucky with predation before the eggs even hatch out, but to the south the eggs hatch out and then the predation occurs on the chicks. A normally quiet species, that walks a lot more than it flies, takes on a whole new role once it has laid eggs.

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Feral Cats Eggs Feral Cats 158

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

There was no breeding behaviour evident amongst the thrushes on any of the 4 sightings over a 4-week spread from the last week of August to the last week of September, though other species were gearing up for the season, with a Southern Lapwing seen on eggs. An individual that can easily be identified could help to provide a few answers.

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Eggs Breeding Species Birds 113

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

APRIL 4, 2014

Now we gamble again (literally as well as figuratively – there’s a split-pot prize for predicting the dates of arrival, egg-laying, and other major events) on the hope that they will lay viable eggs and successfully rear young. Right now, the new information is coming so thick and fast that all I can do is stand amazed.

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Eggs 2011 Science Falcons 165

10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2019

Today, we know a little more, such as the fact that an eagle couple produces one egg every two years, but numbers remain low, too low. And, he tells us about the time he was attacked by a parent Philippine Eagle as he handled an egg at the nest, hundreds of feet above the ground. This film could not be made without them.

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Eagles Philippines Eggs Birds 203

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2012

But after having seen Green Iguanas in person my curiosity was piqued, and I figured the least I could do was learn a bit about them and share that information with 10,000 Birds readers…I hope you enjoy! The female of the species lays ten to thirty eggs in a burrow she digs about 65 days after mating.

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New York Reptiles Eggs South America 165

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The “Owls and Albatrosses” chapter, for example, begins with Doug’s personal experiences observing of the nesting strategies of Malleefowl and a Moluccan Megapode, Australasian “chickens who lay their eggs in unusual ways and do not parent. It’s a lot of information concentrated into 11 pages.

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Science Albatross Research Birds 203

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

One scientists posits that harvesting of horseshoe crabs (their eggs are a preferred Red Knot food source) at a crucial refueling stop on the birds’ migration could be part of the problem. Let’s hope the netted birds provide more information that points researchers to solutions. News Conservation Red Knots research'

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Science Massachusetts Research Eggs 162

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

The package will be based in part on information compiled from eBird with the help of Brian Sullivan. Just as interesting is the nugget that Pin-tailed Whydah , an introduced species itself, has adapted to using Nutmeg Mannikins as a host for its eggs. Specimens confirm that the subspecies involved is the nominate L.p. punctulata.

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California Los Angeles 2013 Eggs 190

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

With populations plunging dramatically over the last decade, researchers from the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, Birds Russia, and a number of other conservation organizations made the always-controversial call to pluck eggs from the imperiled wild population and establish a captive breeding program as a final hedge against extinction.

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Eggs Russia Research Breeding 163

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 12, 2019

If you like this kind of information – and who wouldn`t – I recommend the website where I found this, [link]. Want to see a bird shaped like an egg? Something I learned while preparing this post is that Niltava is one of the few bird names derived from the Nepali language, where the local Rufous-bellied Niltava has the name “niltau”.

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Birds Malaysia Morals Asia 192

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 17, 2014

the book follows through mating and egg-laying, incubation and hatching, and the rearing of three young to successful fledging.

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Bald Eagle Eagles Endangered Species Washington 218

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2024

She’s also written articles in scientific journals and nature/birding magazines and kept the public informed about the California Condor project with her many “Notes From the Field” for The Peregrine Fund newsletter. She also maintains a website of her writings on nature and conservation at Words for Birds.

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California Condor Falcons California Birds 168

10,000 Birds

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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Birds Eggs Laws Woodpeckers 142

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Hints of potential warming in the HBW species description: “Date of first egg-laying on Honshu now 7 days earlier than it was 25 years ago” There are also quite a few Cuckoos. Breeding in Northern Japan and wintering in the Phillippines, some seem to take a migratory rest stop (and slight deviation) at the Shanghai coast.

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Birds LACS France Japan 217

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

The nickel was placed in the nest for the photo to show me the size of the egg for identification purposes, then removed. Even though the female lays only two eggs per nest attempt, they enjoy a protracted breeding season in which multiple nesting attempts can occur every 30 days, and in Southern locations, nearly year round.

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Hunters Hunting North America Game 173

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

But a Bewick’s Wren did build a nest, which it promptly abandoned before laying any eggs. We at NestWatch are very excited that this group has burst onto the scene and quickly become our primary source of information about this species. So, how many chicks hatched in my two boxes? Others had more luck.

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2017 New Mexico Groups Abandon 146

10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2016

A letter requesting information on the permit issued to remove the nest got this response from the city, “In reference to your request for documentation for the removal of an active Osprey nest from the light pole at the soccer field, please be advised that none exist. This is a poor photo I took of this pair’s nest back in 2009.

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Transported Eggs Birds Killing 101

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 21, 2012

In this way, the cuckolding Cuckoo can convince its cuckoldee, the Reed Warbler, to back off when the Cuckoo comes around, allowing the Cuckoo to toss out one of the Warbler’s eggs and replace it with one of its own, to be raised by the hapless Warbler parents. However, Reed Warblers are social learners.

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Hungary 2012 Science Eggs 173

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2019

Oriental Pied Hornbills are quite strange in their nesting habits, because the female bird is sealed into a tree trunk during the incubation of the eggs. It could be several months according to some information I have found online. The nest that we observed the Oriental Pied Hornbills at was about 2 1/2 metres above ground level.

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Singapore Seals Eggs Australia 113

10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2023

The Journal “Advances in Ophthalmology & Visual System” is not a regular source for bird-related information. Confusingly, the HBW lists the species as Vulnerable and marks its conservation status as Not Globally Threatened (Least Concern) – a stronger focus on actual specific information might have been helpful.

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Birds Raised Cattle Mammals 130

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

There’s been both egg and chick predation and most pairs have laid at least two clutches of eggs over the past few months. All of the migratory shorebirds had started to leave Broome and it appeared it had also gone north.

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Eggs Whales Whaling Breeding 101

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2013

We hope that our journey will provide important information about many Neotropical bird species as well as inform conservation.” Clutch size, incubation period, time to fledge, and eggs are all undescribed. For more information on the Sinaloa Martin you can visit these sites: [link].

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South America San Diego Mexico America 179

Critter News

JULY 8, 2011

history, the United Egg Producers (UEP) has agreed to support national legislation that will, upon enactment, improve the welfare of all laying hens in the nation. July 8, 2011 – In a groundbreaking move that should result in the greatest advancement for farmed animals in U.S.

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Welfare Farm Sanctuary Battery Cages Factory Farm 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2018

There is not a slightest trace of asphalt, nor the promised sewage ponds, which may be good for the two Little Ringed Plover families incubating their eggs at the site as we speak, but is far from good for the people living there. And it gave me a sense of accomplishment. One more piece of a puzzle has found its place in the big picture.

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2016 Eagles Birds Otters 165

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2019

I think that’s great; even if these birds remain officially at the subspecies level in the future, it is tremendously helpful to have more information about them. There are no distribution maps, which makes me wonder how much information we miss when we rely only on maps. What is in the Species Accounts? Photographs.

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North America Sparrows America United States 141

10,000 Birds

JUNE 12, 2011

Platypus have bills, bats and bugs can fly, and reptiles lay eggs, but only birds have feathers. Fortunately, Hansen does not beat you over the head with too much information all at once. Feathers are the unique ingredient when it comes to birds.

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Reptiles Bats Eggs Humane 181

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2014

” You can get more information on this declining species at the Tricolored Blackbird Portal. ” The report continues: “Following the breeding season, most tricolors are found in the Sacramento Valley where they aggregate with red-winged and other blackbird species and feed, often in large flocks, on ripening rice. .

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