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Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of October 2020)

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Of the four new year birds for him the best was one of several Nelson’s Sparrows at Big Egg Marsh, always a great bird to see, and Corey saw several very well as the high tide forced them out of the marsh. The post Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of October 2020) appeared first on 10,000 Birds. How about you?

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The first Pied Oystercatcher chick of 2020

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Our first Pied Oystercatcher eggs for this year’s breeding season were laid early and were due to hatch last weekend. This pair of Pied Oystercatchers never seems to have a problem with incubating their eggs. They take it in turns over the twenty eight days sitting or hovering over the eggs. Pied Oystercatcher egg.

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Don’t Ignore the Barnacles – they’re Real Birds

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The Atlas was published in 2020, so these numbers may have been grown since then. A pair did lay infertile eggs in Iceland in 2018, but that’s about the only record I can find). It goes on to say that the Dutch population is estimated at 16,000-22,00 pairs. This Barnacle goose is part of a resident breeding flock in North Norfolk.

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Fully fledged Pied Oystercatcher chick

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There are still newly laid clutches of Pied Oystercatcher eggs on the northern section of Cable Beach , so there is hope still of more survivals. We are very pleased that at least one Pied Oystercatcher chick has survived this year when there has not been much good news for 2020. They do not attempt to breed for about seven years.

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Cable Beach Pied Oystercatchers continue to hatch

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Following on from the sad loss of our first Pied Oystercatcher chick of 2020 the other eggs are now also hatching. Somehow the twenty eight days passed without the eggs being run over. Pied Oystercatchers always try and move away from the nest site as soon as possible once both eggs are hatched. Pied Oystercatcher family.

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National Audubon Society Birds of North America: A Guide Review

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It does seem like the order is concurrent with the 61st Supplement, which came out in 2020, but Northwestern Crow is included as a full species. Plate 28 from Audubon Bird Guide, Eastern Land Birds, by Richard H. Pough “with illustrations in color of every species” by Don Eckelberry, Doubleday, 1946.

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Peeps and Plovers on Cuitzeo Beaches

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I’m not sure what they think of 2020’s low water levels, but they looked happy! Perhaps the lake’s insects function like the Atlantic Horseshoe Crab eggs that shorebirds gorge on along Chesapeake Bay during their northward spring migration? That’s a lot of Northern Shovelers. Northern Pintail , female).

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