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Birding Chongming Island in summer

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According to the HBW, when breeding, male birds do most of the incubation and parenting while females often leave the nest up to one week before the eggs hatch. According to Couzens, after laying the eggs, females sometimes immediately abandon their first mate and pair up with another male. How efficient. How surprising.

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How to find the Ural Owl in Serbia

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all the time pointing with my right hand while holding the steering wheel with my left, and the hardest thing, keeping my eyes on the road. Egg-laying starts in late March to early April and they remain in the vicinity till early June. Two years ago I screamed “UralOwlUralOwlUralOwl!!!”, Fortunately, B.

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MIA

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Travis got to experience things he normally wouldn’t (like spending about 5 hours every day in a pool) and seeing the world famous Canadian Forces Snowbirds aerobatic team (I can post a photo of them right? Most troubling for me, because I think of them as my birds, is the abandoned nesting attempt by a pair of Pacific Loons.

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Hornbills of Sabah

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One paper describes them breeding in a human settlement in abandoned clay jars. In fact, given the right chromosomes, hybridization is possible between the two species and has been observed ( source ). Now pairs of hornbills feed outside this correspondent’s window”.

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Come@Me: Don’t Mourn for Extinct Birds

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The Zoo episode focuses on two Pink Pigeon couples: The Stud and Serendipity, a male and female that the zoo people hope will mate and produce a viable egg, and Thelma and Louise, a same-sex pair-bonded couple who the zoo people hope will incubate the egg and nurture the chick. Because, Ms. On the WCS web page, Ms.

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