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Australian Painted Snipe breeding near Broome

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The first time we ever observed an Australian Painted Snipe was on Grant’s birthday in 2011 near Broome and since then we have had numerous other encounters, but this year for the first time we have seen them both nesting and with young. Australian Painted Snipe nest with four eggs. Four eggs in the Australian Painted Snipe nest.

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Peterson Field Guide to North American Bird Nests: A Field Guide Review

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This may have been partly a leftover from the Victorian fascination with egg collecting (the infamous passion known as oology), but probably more from people’s burgeoning interest in the nests and eggs found in their gardens and fields, gateway artifacts to a newer hobby called birdwatching. Baicich and Colin J.

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Is The Hooded Grebe About To Go Extinct?

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Podicipediformes, aka Grebes, are freshwater diving duckish birds that are not ducks. Some of the lakes they breed on have been stocked with salmon and trout. And, the Mink are capable of wiping out large portions of a breeding colony in a short period. At both breeding seasons five lakes contained near 85% of the population.

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Herdsman Lake birding trails

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Our last visit to Herdsman Lake was in winter in June 2011 and last Sunday was a beautiful hot summer day and most people appeared to be inside as we spent several hours circumnavigating the lake system. There were also plentiful numbers of Pink-eared Ducks , Grey Teal, Pacific Black Ducks and Hardheads. Musk Duck -male.

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Comebackers

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Kirtland’s Warbler is a classic niche species; they breed in only very specific conditions, which occur in only a very specific area. this species breeds. Fortunately, there were still a handful of immature birds alive at sea, and a few years later they were back on Toroshima breeding again.

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What does the Keystone XL Pipeline have to do with Birds?

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More than 1 million birds, including tundra swans, snow geese and countless ducks, stop to rest and gather strength in these undisturbed wetlands each autumn. About three billion birds fly north to the Boreal Forest each spring to build nests and lay eggs. This is a photograph of the same area in 2011.

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Sea Snakes of Northern Australia

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