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Streaks, Variegations, and Pirates

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When I say they target the nest, what I really mean is that they target the present occupiers and rightful owners of the nest. By constant harassment, egg ejection, and in some cases hatchling removal, the original owners abandon ship and the Piratic Flycatchers move in.

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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. meters instead of 0.7

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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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The Endangered Andean Flamingo

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Egg harvesting to sell as food was intensive then, with thousands taken annually from the breeding colonies in Chile. Egg collection for local consumption still continues at lower scale. Andean Flamingoes and Chilean Flamingo (far right) (Photo: Ron Knight – Flickr). Photo: Marcio Cabral de Mora – Flickr).

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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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The Everglade Snail Kite Is Making a Comeback

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Finally, the exotic Island snail occurs in Argentina, Brazil and Bolivia where they are consumed by Snail Kites there (the Snail Kite occur throughout South America, the Everglade Snail Kite is a sub-species). Exotic apple snail (left) and native apple snail (right) Photo: The Pomacea Project.

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Urban birds, urban birding… is there a future?

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Personally, I wasn’t happy, but I do not live there and do not have a septic tank in my backyard, so I felt that I have no right to complain against something that would obviously improve the lives of local inhabitants. Nowadays, it has a feeling of an abandoned construction site. and after the road construction (June 2018).

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