10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2015

Third, observing and photographing breeding birds and their young have become acts of ethical confusion as birders, photographers, and organizational representatives debate the impact of our human presence on the nesting process. And of eggs and nests and birds on nests. Cedar Waxwings exchange berries, carry nesting material, eggs.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 10, 2018

On the other hand, you have all those photos to process and lists to sort. The Tern colonies in Queens didn’t produce anything but the expected species but Gull-billed Terns , Corey’s first of the year, were a pleasure to see loafing on a mudflat at Big Egg Marsh. Actually, even those parts of a birding trip can be sweet.

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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.”. I think it could be done but not using the normal process.

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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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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. And then we go back to the evolution of clutch size.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 23, 2012

When the female is ready to lay eggs, she will deposit a clutch of eggs in a nest built by each of her males and that is the end of her role in reproduction. The males will incubate the eggs and raise the chicks to fledgling status. … A fish may love a bird, but where would they live?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2012

Osprey pairs usually form at the nest site where females are fed almost exclusively by their mates prior to egg laying behavior 1. Copulation begins a couple of weeks before egg laying and usually occurs at the nest. Here you see nest building activity as the female watches the male, who brings in the bulk of nesting material.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Hashimoto’s prints and water color bird portraits differ in materials and style from Harper, but she shares with him a talent for portraying common birds in a lively, accessible, yet new way that belies the artistic processes employed to create the finished image. It’s an interesting way to teach within a book.

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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

The owls themselves are amazing creatures, and we have already begun to observe their nesting process, as they are expected to lay eggs any day now. Ustream will provide LIVE coverage of the entire process from the initial egg laying, to the fledgling of the chicks from the nest. The eggs are incubated for about 30 days.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2014

According to Wikipedia, birds (class Aves) are feathered, winged, two-legged, warm-blooded, egg-laying vertebrates. You can get their NestWatch manual here and learn about the whole process at NestWatch.org. Most researchers agree that modern-day birds are the only living members of the Dinosauria clade.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2014

It was a complex process, involving a selfie contest, voting by the site members, and fabulous prizes. Introducing this year’s Dunrovin osprey chicks – Lunar, Sol, and Shadow, named for the eclipse that took place the night the first egg was laid. Today we named the three Osprey chicks that hatched out at Dunrovin ranch.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2021

They were able to untangle him, but they took a few good talon hits in the process. “Apparently she found a fallen American Robin ‘s egg,” she wrote, “and kept it in there for two weeks! Karen Lynn’s Red-Tailed Hawk was not as easily intimidated. “A bunch of bikers found him entangled in monofilament.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 16, 2012

Pied Oystercatcher breeding area-July to October Pied Oystercatcher sitting on eggs-July We are now at the time of year when Flatback Turtles come ashore to lay their eggs along our coastline and they usually do it during the night around high tide. Apparently the eggs were laid and she finally returned to the sea at 7pm.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2018

This becomes an issue when, every four or five years the light bulbs need to be replaced and the nest can be destroyed in the process. Pairs average 59 successful copulations per clutch, starting 14 days before, and peaking a few days before, the start of egg-laying 1.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 22, 2017

Fortunately for me, a kind birder pointed out a ruby-throat in the process of building a nest at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge last week and the nest is relatively low and unobstructed.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

However, they usually explain the process in the introduction and describe how the text has been updated. I really would like to have more information on how the 2021 guide was created, what process was used when mining information from the older guides, and who was making these decisions. There is nothing wrong with this.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2011

Last year the nest failed, the eggs apparently not viable, never hatching. I had crossed the stream and was approaching for a quick look to see how many eggs were in the nest this year. The parent waited just off shore, and as soon as I neared enough to look at the two eggs that had been laid, she started. Splish Splash.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2014

Sadly, the downtime means that the usual post crafting process got slightly short-circuited this week. Well, the blog is back just in time for me to post a story… which is annoying as it would be nice to have a week off without having to fabricate a story for Mike and Corey to cover my bone idle nature.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 27, 2014

These birds even lay their eggs on piles of cow or horse dung, most likely to elevate them from the cold ground and possibly provide some heating through the process of rotting plant material. That can be traced back in time to 1875, when Alfred Brehm wrote that he had found Sociable Lapwings only alongside the domestic cattle.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2011

It takes little energy to synthesize within the cell and as it is soluble in water, the process of excretion is quite simple. Or picture yourself as a bird fetus within an egg. Drinking and peeing through the egg shell? And it can be stored easily by the bird fetus within the egg. If water is not a problem.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Observing these different behaviors I believe these Bank Swallows were in different stages of the nesting process. This appears to be a male inviting a female to his finished burrow… standing on his porch singing… then flying off to perform an “invitation flight?”

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2021

It is part of a publishing trend to make scientific information easily available, effortless to read and process, primarily through the use of stunning visual material to engage our eyes and spike our interest.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 2, 2022

Challenging at times, especially for us nonscientists, but Whittaker very smartly combines explanations of scientific concepts and processes with her own thoughts and feelings about the work, the intellectual history that preceded it, and the people she works with. There’s also roller derby stuff.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2016

The last thing I wanted to do was disturb her so I chose to stay quite a ways away, using a long lens to record the process. Once the nest was done, she began sitting on it, preparing to lay her eggs. You see it was about now that the non-resident owner of the boat had decided to move his boat back to his home town of San Diego.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2011

Keep in mind that birds at this stage will flutter and look like it can’t fly very well, but it’s fine, it’s all part of the learning process. They take a lot longer to grow and develop, unlike the two week growing process of most songbirds. Young raptors like the above Bald Eagle chick are a different matter.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 25, 2012

In my case, I used the window of my car, as the location I used to test the product was the puddles in the parking lot at Big Egg Marsh in Queens. Of course, the images are better once they are processed (What images aren’t?), Unless you have ice water in your veins you will probably need to do the same.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 12, 2011

Platypus have bills, bats and bugs can fly, and reptiles lay eggs, but only birds have feathers. In his preface, he nicely brings the reader through the process he went through in deciding to write a book about feathers (it involves vultures and chance, a winning combination any way you look at it).

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10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2019

It was advisable to remove them at night, to keep them calm, to establish immediately a feeding board on which they would be fed chopped beef and egg to start, then fresh birds, rabbit or squirrel. Nestlings weren’t taken until their down had been replaced by feathers.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Longer story shorter (which I wrote about here ), I found it and was startled to find out that the Ravens ( Corvus corax ) had not only chased it, but they had caught it, killed it, and were in the process of eating the adult King Eider ( Somateria spectabilis ) when I came along. This is a tough place for a year round resident to find food.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2013

Mulvihill, the third editor, discusses in detail how the second atlas sought to improve on the processes of the first, in quality and quantity of data as well as increased citizen participation. Aims and Purposes, by Robert S. The Geography of Pennsylvania, by Andrew M. Wilson, and Bernd J.

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Critter News

APRIL 1, 2009

And if you ever drive around an egg farm, hog farm, slaughterhouse, feeding lot, etc., Animals are raw materials to process for product. You are not processing their wellbeing, but their carcasses for meat. There are horror stories of animals not completely dead before they are being processed. It’s not cost-effective.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 11, 2013

Peripatetic ornithologist Nick Sly has long been a friend of the blog here and has contributed such classics as Green-rumped Parrotlets from Egg to Adult and Forpus passerinus and the Ornithologists of Masaguaral. This kind of detailed genetic and developmental work has traditionally relied on model species in the lab (aka chickens).

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Animal Person

OCTOBER 24, 2009

But it might kill someone else, as in the case of hot dogs, considering no creature gets out of the hot-dog making process alive. In fairness, I think that what the linguistically lazy are really trying to say is that a little bit of a bad thing isn't going to kill you. Or in the case of cheese made from the milk of cows.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2019

Wright emphasizes the use of “shape and pattern of wing and tail” and size in the identification process. When not relating taxonomic stories, Rick Wright the teacher patiently walks us through simple and knotty identification processes. Identification of male and female Lark Buntings.

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North America Sparrows America United States 158

4 The Love Of Animals

DECEMBER 6, 2011

The two most common food allergies or food intolerances in pets are: Protein including chicken, beef, pork, fish, eggs and soy. This process can take a few weeks, but it’s worth it in order to exclude a troublesome food for the lifelong happiness of your pet. Grains like wheat or corn. Upset stomach. Refusal to eat.

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Animal Person

JULY 22, 2009

Maybe sugar processed with bone char isn't worth boycotting a restaurant over. Or bake some vegan cookies for a vegetarian friend who's convinced that she cannot survive without eggs and butter. And they're all pretty obvious. As for the less obvious (gelatin in tires? Maybe it is. I'd rather trap a feral cat and have her spayed.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

They have special adaptations to stay warm and to keep their eggs and chicks warm. One is that the circumstances for a trait to emerge do not automatically cause it to happen, and by chance Penguins never underwent this particular Darwinian process until much later in their history.

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