Abandoning Abandonment Eggs Rabbits 
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 29, 2022
Is it offensive to say that Australian Zebra Finches breed like rabbits? In this species (as in other jacanas), the females get by abandoning their partner after laying eggs and leaving incubation and chick-rearing to the males. I guess we have to be thankful they do not also wear leggings. ” ( source ).
10,000 Birds
JUNE 1, 2011
When that isn’t possible, many raptor rehabbers keep tabs on nests and will place an abandon chick in a foster nest. A female red-tail may leave a nest to hunt for her two chicks and return to feed a rabbit to three chicks without noting an increase in the number of chicks a rehabber has placed there.
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