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AUGUST 4, 2019

An empty Pied Oystercatcher nest should mean that there are now chicks and that the parents have been sitting on a clutch of two eggs for twenty eight days. Last week I introduced you to the first Pied Oystercatcher chicks of 2019 and so far they are surviving. This is typical behaviour for a pair of Pied Oystercatchers that have eggs.

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AUGUST 11, 2019

We have observed the first Pied Oystercatcher chicks of 2019 over the past two weeks grow steadily. In fact we often don’t have any chicks within two weeks of the eggs hatching and other pairs along the coast have not been successful yet this season. Female on the left and two chicks next to the male Pied Oystercatcher.

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JANUARY 15, 2020

So my favorites for 2019 includes a good number of birds that are rather common elsewhere, but were firsts for me. But the Kentish Plover was sheltering its young under its body, and the Little Ringed Plover was incubating an egg — right in the middle of downtown Madrid! But… Been there, done most of those.

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OCTOBER 13, 2019

We had added Radjah Shelduck to our 2019 list on August 26th at the Derby Poo Ponds. The Radjah Shelduck will often nest in a tree hollow close to water and lay between six and twelve eggs. Last week during a camping trip to Kununurra we encountered a Radjah Shelduck family in one of the irrigation channels around town.

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MARCH 23, 2020

318 – Burrowing Owl , 16 May 2019: An unbelievable find and a thrilling chase, this bird at Big Egg Marsh was as as astonishing as it was unpredicted. 319 – Sage Thrasher , 17 May 2019: Finding my own new Queens bird is always exciting and for it to be the first in the state since 1973 was a cherry on top.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The lengthy Introduction gives both a personal history and a global history of birds and art, including brief profiles of John James Audubon and the far lesser known Genevieve Estelle Jones, who conceived of a book eventually called Illustrations of the Nests and Eggs of Birds of Ohio in the late 19th century. Skipstone, 2019.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Her bird books are Birds by the Shore (previously Notes from the Shore, 1995 and re-issued 2019) and the award-winning The Genius of Birds (2016), which focused on studies of bird cognition. Ackerman has done a lot of interviews about The Bird Way , and as usual I highly recommend listening to here on the ABA Podcast.

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AUGUST 3, 2021

I highly recommend reading it while also using a more practical guide to bird sound, like Nathan Pieplow’s Peterson Field Guide to Bird Sounds of Eastern North America (HMH, 2017) or Peterson Field Guide to Bird Sounds of Western North America (HMH, 2019). The Pieplow titles will help you identify a bird sound. Langmore and Michelle L.

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JULY 28, 2019

Last year not a single chick survived and there is much predation of both eggs and young birds along the length of beach. The first pair of Pied Oystercatchers to lay eggs this year was the same as last year. The first egg laid is not necessarily the first to hatch and often there is a day in between when they hatch.

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APRIL 7, 2020

It didn’t occur to me till I started reading The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird that there was also a possible threat to the eagle herself: poachers, who steal raptor eggs and chicks. 2019), and now this book. wrote a lengthy article in Outside magazine (Jan. Author Joshua Hammer.

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JULY 4, 2023

From Hiro, we learn how Northern Pygmy Owls are “rule breakers,” not incubating eggs till all are hatched and then raising owlets that mature at the same rate even though the eggs were laid asynchronously (as most owl eggs are).

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APRIL 2, 2019

And, the 1996 volume includes information on nests and eggs, a topic not covered by the Peterson guide. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, March 2019, 448p. These guides focused on identification facts and are organized in a way that allows you to find these facts quickly. Peterson Reference Guide to Sparrows of North America. by Rick Wright.

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JANUARY 12, 2022

In spite of our proximity, it spent a good while positioned as if it had eggs there. That number was a bit better than my first-day total from 2019, though a bit worse than 2020’s total. In spite of being a winter migrant, which only reproduces in the U.S. Was it practicing?

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FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The breeding ecology of the Yellow-bellied Warbler was actually studied exactly here at Nonggang in 2019 by 3 Chinese researchers. A female shama attacked several Cantor’s Kukri snakes approaching its nest ( source ). This included recording a total of 77,760 minutes of video. Glad I did not have to watch these.

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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. Press, 2011).

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JUNE 7, 2022

The Wryneck is full of stunning photos of Wrynecks–anting, flying, nesting, writhing, being ringed, their habitat areas, nests, eggs, and closeups of museum specimens. My Wryneck, Fang, Thailand, February 2019; copyright © Donna L. copyright © 2022 Gerard Gorman.

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DECEMBER 7, 2021

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. The Harrison guides are out of print.

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DECEMBER 4, 2021

The guide, one of the last offerings in the Peterson Field Guide series from publisher HMH, shows photos of nests of most North American species and describes nest structure, location, how the bird makes the nest, number of eggs, and what the eggs look like.

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MARCH 1, 2019

Falconry Month at Birds and Booze: I’ve decided to dedicate this month of March 2019 to wines and beers related to the history of falconry – or hawking – for no other reason than that I’ve recently acquired several bottles adorned with mostly medieval European iconography relating to this “sport of kings”.

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JANUARY 5, 2019

Best wishes to you all for 2019, keep safe and keep birding. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. So please keep at it and keep sending me your shared checklists. Alphabetic Taxonomic. 23 May 2018.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Munuscong WMA (Munuscong Potholes). 28 May 2018. Clay-colored Sparrow – Spizella pallida. Munuscong WMA (Munuscong Potholes). 28 May 2018. 28 May 2018. 28 May 2018.

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OCTOBER 6, 2018

Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Munuscong WMA (Munuscong Potholes). 28 May 2018. Clay-colored Sparrow – Spizella pallida. Munuscong WMA (Munuscong Potholes). 28 May 2018. 28 May 2018. 28 May 2018.

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AUGUST 4, 2018

Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Munuscong WMA (Munuscong Potholes). 28 May 2018. Clay-colored Sparrow – Spizella pallida. Munuscong WMA (Munuscong Potholes). 28 May 2018. 28 May 2018. 28 May 2018.

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DECEMBER 1, 2018

Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Stormwater Treatment Area 5/6. 13 Jan 2018. Wandering Whistling-Duck – Dendrocygna arcuata. Western Australia. 01 Jan 2018. Snow Goose – Anser caerulescens.

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OCTOBER 1, 2016

Big Egg Marsh. Negri-Nepote Grasslands. 25 Apr 2016. Saltmarsh Sparrow – Ammodramus caudacutus. Gardiner County Park. 04 Jun 2016. Seaside Sparrow – Ammodramus maritimus. 13 May 2016. Olive Sparrow – Arremonops rufivirgatus. Finca Hamadryas. 09 Jan 2016. Black-striped Sparrow – Arremonops conirostris. 29 Jan 2016.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2018

Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Munuscong WMA (Munuscong Potholes). 28 May 2018. Clay-colored Sparrow – Spizella pallida. Munuscong WMA (Munuscong Potholes). 28 May 2018. 28 May 2018. 28 May 2018.

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