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.
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
APRIL 30, 2013
While walking along the beach one morning, I noted a fruiting Dagger Cactus right near the beach, at the top was a bird just destroying one of the purple fruits near the top of plant’s formidable crown. There is no doubt about it, this is a striking bird. Just lazy ones.
10,000 Birds
JULY 1, 2014
Here are three excellent but very different children’s books I enjoyed this year (two were published in 2013, one in 2011). They cut down the trees the parrots used for nesting and brought black rats, who ate their eggs, and honeybees who swarmed into their nests, and by 1937 there were only about 2,000 Puerto Rican Parrots left.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 3, 2014
Whether the inspiration to this post came from Germany winning the U19 European football championship yesterday right on the heels of our (adult) team winning the world cup (Yes! They were protecting the last three pairs that were left in West Germany from egg thieves! Four stars!!),
10,000 Birds
MARCH 21, 2024
I photographed the first of only two Northern Parulas ever reported in my state, way back in 2013. And then there was a Green Heron , not only showing us its nest, but also an egg. I’m happy to say that the ones right on the other side of a low wall were not so large. But obviously, I haven’t seen one since then.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 13, 2023
One interesting paper argues that contrary to what might seem logical, cuckoos do not aim to lay eggs specifically into the nests of those parrotbills whose egg color and pattern match their own. The rationale includes the speed of the laying (too fast to check for color matches) and the low number of egg-laying attempts (i.e.,
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