10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
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”. They are early nesters, but I was unable to tell whether any pairs already had eggs, though I suspected that some might have done.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 9, 2019
The storks begin to arrive from August and will usually be sitting on eggs by October. Eggs often fall victim to the ubiquitous House Crow. A study conducted at Sultanpur (Abdul Jamil Urfi, Thangarasu Meganathan and Abdul Kalam) between 2003 and 2005 noted that the the clutch size was bigger in early nests.
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 3, 2020
Penguins are shown individually in groups, in dense colonies, within habitat (ice, rainforest, beach), swimming in the ocean, and doing things–nose to nose with an albatross, feeding a child, placing an egg on its foot, sliding down ice. Davis and Martin Renner in 2003, appropriately titled Penguin s (Yale Univ.
10,000 Birds
JULY 23, 2014
This first map is data from 2002 through 2003. They usually lay two eggs per clutch and most often, successive clutches will be laid while adults are still attending fledglings! Click on photos for full sized images. Like most dove species, Eurasian Collared-Doves are prolific breeders. In warm climates they can breed year round.
10,000 Birds
JULY 11, 2018
I found this little grouping of Guillemots, with parents, babies and even an egg. Re-introduction of the Red Kites in southern Scotland was started in 2003 with 40 birds released, for the most part in secret. Here is just a small portion of one wall, covered by Guillemots. I caught this Guillemot on the way back with dinner.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 4, 2015
Baicich worked for the American Birding Association from 1991 to 2003 as editor and Director of Conservation and Public Policy. He’s also worked with the National Wildlife Refuge System, co-led birding tours to Alaska, and co-authored A Guide to the Nests, Eggs, and Nestlings of North American Birds (1997). Margaret A.
10,000 Birds
JULY 16, 2012
Some might contest this, saying that Dr. Seuss’s Horton Hatches An Egg precedes Eastman’s book by twenty years. But since Horton is an elephant, and since the creature that hatches from the egg is an elephant-bird, I’m going to wait till 10,000 Birds does a Hybrid Bird Week before discussing this representative of the Seussiverse.
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