10,000 Birds
MARCH 11, 2012
Good luck, egg! And a question: If I hadn’t seen any robins today but stumbled upon the nest without seeing the robin that had just flown off, and identified the egg as a robin’s, could I count robin on my day-list?
10,000 Birds
MAY 10, 2024
Unlike the Common Cuckoo, the young GSC doesn’t eject its foster parents’ eggs or chicks from the nest, but is reared alongside them. In 2007, a Bateleur Eagle was seen on Cyprus, the first record for Europe. Apparently if there’s more than one GSC chick in a nest, the younger one is likely to starve.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2024
A lot of this material is in her earlier book, Condors in Canyon Country, published by the Grand Canyon Association in 2007, now out-of-print (though available used). She also joyfully relates seeing through her scope “the first wild-hatched condor nestling in recorded Arizona history” (p.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 6, 2014
The breeding season in the north of Australia starts from about July 1st and there are often several attempts if the eggs fail, are lost or the chicks don’t survive. On July 1st 2007 an egg was laid by a Pied Oystercatcher that was known to be an adult in 2002 and had been banded in nearby Roebuck Bay.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 16, 2012
In theory the eggs are laid, the adults share the incubation of the eggs for 28 days and then fluffy chicks emerge. This particular pair of Pied Oystercatchers first arrived on Cable Beach in 2007 to claim a territory. The eggs remained there for the whole season and we presume that they were young and inexperienced.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 18, 2014
The featured image above shows a female incubating eggs from my first resident breeding pair back in 2007. The four to six eggs are white and unmarked. It’s not as clear as the photo of the eggs above but I did not want to disturb the female as she was circling the nest to resume her duties.
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! Time will tell!
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