10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
When there are cuckoos around – which parasitize Daurian Redstarts – the females have a higher rate of egg rejection. The Grey Nightjar is not really affected by real estate prices (always an important topic in China) as it does not build a nest – the eggs are simply laid on leaf litter or bare ground.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
There is a lot of extreme behavior here (and a lot of that behavior takes place in Australia), but this is not simply a collection of the world’s most fantastic bird tales.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2013
It turns out that the reclaimed mines work well as habitat for the sparrow because they collect a layer of leaf litter, a key nesting requirement. I was particularly sad to see the decline of Henslow’s Sparrow, a bird I saw for the first time in the reclaimed surface mine grasslands of western Pennsylvania.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 8, 2018
According to this website the Rufous Treecreeper lays two or three light purple eggs and only the female bird incubates the eggs. Rufous Treecreeper feeding among the leaf litter. A male Rufous Treecreeper with thin white stripes down its breast was also present, but it was too active for a decent photo!
10,000 Birds
APRIL 30, 2011
Shearwater remains litter the island with the carcasses picked clean, leaving just the wings, breastbone and girdle. After mating, a single egg is laid and incubation duties are shared by both parents. A big moon gives enough light for the gulls to hunt by, so the shearwaters seldom come onto land while the full moon is up.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 25, 2024
… [They] have long, downward-curved bills, used to work through the leaf litter … They are typically long tailed, dark brown above, and white or orange-brown below. According to Wikipedia, “scimitar babblers are rangy, medium-sized, floppy-tailed land birds with soft fluffy plumage.
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