10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

I soon noticed the shallow nest scrape, but there were not any eggs in it yet. Hopefully they will soon lay eggs and raise young on Squeaky Beach. They lead you away from the area that they are nesting in or attempting to nest in. Hooded Plover nest scrape. Hooded Plover on nest scrape.

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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. He last raised a chick successfully in 2016 and has nested in this area since 2008.

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MAY 10, 2020

The adult Pied Oystercatcher that is sitting on the eggs will lay as flat as possible to protect the eggs. The adult Black Kites will no doubt find enough roadkill to raise their young. 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

AUGUST 25, 2019

We continue to have egg predation at many of the nest sites and chick loss, but one pair of Pied Oystercatchers is being successful in raising two chicks so far. There has never been two eggs hatch and two chicks survive for more than about ten days since we started to keep an eye on them in 2000.

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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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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 23, 2015

There are sixteen pairs of Pied Oystercatchers and they have varying success at raising young birds. 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.

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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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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 8, 2015

Egg loss to predation has been extraordinarily bad this year and all of the nests mentioned in the last post were lost and all of the pairs of Pied Oystercatchers laid a new clutch of eggs. In fact they have not just laid once again, but many pairs have laid up to five clutches of eggs this season.

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AUGUST 9, 2023

By constant harassment, egg ejection, and in some cases hatchling removal, the original owners abandon ship and the Piratic Flycatchers move in. Unlike brood parasites, they raise their own young in their pirated nest. Sometimes they may redecorate a bit within the nest with dead leaves or other material.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

The first eggs were laid in the first week of July, which is the case each year. The eggs take 28 days to hatch and it is then at least 35 days before the chicks are developed enough to fly and there have been problems with predation as in other years. Pied Oystercatcher sitting on eggs in the nudist area of Cable Beach.

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Breeding Eggs Camels Raised 158

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.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2015

And of eggs and nests and birds on nests. Into the Nest , as the title says, is about the courting, mating, egg-laying, nesting, and parenting behavior of “familiar birds”. Cedar Waxwings exchange berries, carry nesting material, eggs. Egg biology, from Part I. Oops, the curmudgeon in me slipped.) Peregrine Falcon nests.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

There is also the Pheasant Coucal , which is unique in the fact that it does not put its eggs into another species of birds nest, but sits on its own eggs and raises its own young. It was a juvenile bird and no doubt its parents had used one of the many Paperbark Flycatchers nests to lay its eggs in.

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Australia Eggs Raised Species 171

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Despite the fact that they are part of the cuckoo family they do actually raise their own young. Pheasant Coucals can lay up to five eggs, but we don’t know how often this actually occurs. It is currently Pheasant Coucal breeding season. I mentioned last week that we have had a Pheasant Coucal crashing around in our garden.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Finally, the Azure-winged Magpie raises a hen-and-egg question: What was first, the color of the bird or the color of the Tibetan prayer flag? Understated elegance is also something the White-browed Tit is rather good at.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 23, 2012

The female rhythmically moved her body left and right and the male tried his best to keep his balance as he followed her movements The occasional flashes of white, which first caught our attention, were the male’s underwings, displayed as he raised his wings to regain balance when he lost synchrony with the female’s movement.

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Sri Lanka Eggs Raised Investigation 189

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2016

Traditionally since 2000 we have encountered our first Pied Oystercatcher eggs in the first week of July, but this year one pair have decided to start laying eggs early! Sadly they have already lost one clutch of eggs to predation, so by July 1st this year they are on their second clutch. Pied Oystercatcher nest.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2017

Masked Lapwings have been busy breeding for some months now and some may well be on their second clutch of eggs. On a recent day trip to Derby from Broome we took the road into the Derby airport to get views of the end of the mudflats and encountered a Masked Lapwing sitting on eggs and chicks right beside the main road at the airport.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2016

Birds like cuckoos, who lay their eggs in songbirds’ nests, and whose young then off the hosts’ own chicks, tend to avoid cities. This may help songbirds successfully raise their families without worrying about invaders. And that appeal is relief from the threat of brood parasitism.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2023

While having somebody else raise your chicks like an attractive strategy to me, it is not without dangers. Not only does this species directly parasitize other species but also metaphorically, by imitating the sparrowhawks in its appearance and thus deterring potential predators.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2014

The two have built up a devoted following through years of triumph – like last season, when they fledged three young – and tragedy – like the season before, when their eggs didn’t even hatch. Ozzie and Harriet with the 2013 brood.

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Montana Eggs Horses Morals 190

10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2019

I couldn’t help thinking this–me, the anthropomorphism hater– as I watched a pair of Philippine Eagles tend their nest, raise a chick, and tear monkeys apart in Bird of Prey: The Story of the Rarest Eagle on Earth , a well-crafted, beautifully filmed documentary with a mission. The Philippine Eagle has a kind face.

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Eagles Philippines Eggs Birds 203

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2011

The first eggs are laid during the first week of July each year and if these eggs fail to hatch or the chicks are lost they will lay further eggs within a few weeks. Sadly a lot of eggs are lost to feral cats and chicks are sometimes taken by birds of prey. Nest site with 3 eggs-one white!

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2002 Feral Cats Eggs 2007 166

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2011

Probably one of the most familiar nests to North American birders, their eggs are known well enough to have a color named after them and many individuals are acclimatized to people, which means that they are comfortable enough to nest near our buildings. … a.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 15, 2012

There are thousands of shorebirds that visit Broome each year and the majority of them are now in the northern hemisphere hopefully sitting on eggs. Not all of our shorebird species migrate and those that reside here are also currently sitting on eggs, or thinking about laying eggs in the upcoming weeks.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Mentioning New Jersey often raises a snicker or a run down of all the drama and negative stereotypes that swirl around the Garden State, most of which are typified by the MTV hit show, “Jersey Shore.” The cowbirds will try to lay their eggs in a goldfinch nest, but once hatched the young only survive a few days.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

But a Bewick’s Wren did build a nest, which it promptly abandoned before laying any eggs. But perhaps “tweets” simply went out that Aldea is a great place to raise chicks. Hopefully, we can increase its numbers through preservation and permaculture, as well as the Mountain Chickadee and Bewick’s Wren, which are also declining.

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4 The Love Of Animals

DECEMBER 20, 2013

The nearly two-week-old king chick is now weighing in at 30 ounces (882 grams) and currently being raised by its parents with routine check-ups from the SeaWorld Orlando Aviculture Team who monitor the chick’s weight and overall development. Although small now, it will grow to be more than 24 pounds (11 kilograms) and over 2.5

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2011

If you cannot find the nest or it’s too destroyed, do not try and raise a chick this young. It’s illegal to raise wild birds (even orphaned ones) without state and federal permits. Some rehabbers even have surrogate ducks or geese that they can raise a lone chick with and teach it to survive.

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Birds Fox Raised Ducks 265

10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2019

The first time I visited the 30 acre enclosure, I walked the raised boardwalk over the space with eyes wide. With so much to look at, you wouldn’t think my eyes would be drawn to a pine cone nest on the ground, complete with a Canada Goose parent shielding her delicate eggs from the nearby antelope species.

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Geese Zoos Canada Rhinos 113

10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2017

There had been a grader along the fence-line many years ago leaving a lower area that was very flooded and the raised dirt it had left behind was the perfect location for a pair of nesting Australian Painted Snipe. Australian Painted Snipe nest with four eggs. Four eggs in the Australian Painted Snipe nest.

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Breeding Eggs Raised 2017 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2013

House Wrens use this decoy system when predators arrive in their territory, they’ll defend a decoy nest rather than an actual nest in hopes that the nest raider won’t find the eggs or chicks. A pair of wrens actually raised some young in this box. Here’s the inside of a Wood Duck box that has been wrenned.

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Industry Ducks Eggs Raised 159

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. And to ‘raise awareness’ is such a nebulous thing. Cue scandal! This has been reported extensively in my favorite neighborhood blog, E.V.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2013

Once again Pied Oystercatcher breeding season is fast approaching in Broome and we can expect the first batch of eggs to be laid within the next few weeks. We have also discovered that they are very rarely successful with the first eggs laid due to predation of either the eggs or the chicks.

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Eggs Breeding Australia Raised 173

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 28, 2014

Among birds the Egyptian Vulture uses rocks to crack Ostrich eggs, the New Caledonian Crow and Woodpecker Finch (one of several Darwin Finches of the Galapagos Islands), uses sticks to extract grubs from inside a branch. Egyptian Vultures raised is isolation used rocks to crack eggs presented to them. The behavior was inherent.

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Fish Woodpeckers Ostriches Eggs 163

10,000 Birds

JULY 26, 2013

In fact, it seems like Violet-green swallows will nest anywhere they can fit in an egg and someone to incubate it. In fact, they can be surprising in their subtlety: “One report documented a pair of Violet-greens assisting a pair of Western Bluebirds in raising young.

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Montana Woodpeckers Eggs Raised 158