10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

With populations plunging dramatically over the last decade, researchers from the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, Birds Russia, and a number of other conservation organizations made the always-controversial call to pluck eggs from the imperiled wild population and establish a captive breeding program as a final hedge against extinction.

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Eggs Russia Research Breeding 163

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2022

.” And after separating all the parts of the boluses and presumably weighing them, your conclusion would have been that “the most regularly occurring food items recorded are fish (63%) and insects (33%)” (the other 4% are the few remaining bits of chocolate and gummy bears brought to the chicks by their grandparents.

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Birds South Korea Japan Abandon 162

10,000 Birds

APRIL 30, 2013

Baltimore Orioles are surprisingly slight when you get a look at them, but troupials are about the size of a jay, and with the bearing to go with it. Take a look at this sucker. For starters, it’s massive. Troupials raise their own chicks, generally 3 to 4 per clutch, they just steal the nest in which they raise them. Just lazy ones.

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Baltimore Broker North America Raised 175

10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2013

I was shocked when I saw a hen Mallard actually incubating eggs in one of these things–they do work…and how do the mallards get in there? I saw this at Bear River Migratory Refuge in Utah. I didn’t think they were as agile as a wood duck, but apparently they can.

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Minnesota Barn Owls Ducks Utah 172

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

The first guide bearing the National Audubon Society imprint was Audubon Bird Guide; Eastern Land Birds , written by Richard Hooper Pough, and illustrated by Don Eckelberry. Audubon guides to birds have been around since 1946. Plate 28 from Audubon Bird Guide, Eastern Land Birds, by Richard H.

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North America America Birds California Condor 278

10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2015

Having never birded Cape Henlopen State Park before I was kind of unsure as to the best place to go, so after entering the park on Sunday morning I pulled over to get my bearings and to figure out what route through the park I should take. The sunrises alone made getting up, out, and about so early worth it but the birds made it even better.

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Delaware New York Birds North Carolina 171

10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2022

Like a bad boyfriend not changing into nicer clothes for an evening out, the Brown-cheeked Fulvetta gets chided on eBird for not making any efforts: “an unapologetically drab and unmarked fulvetta” The Chestnut-headed Bee-eater apparently digs nest-burrows in which to lay its eggs. “It is not deep enough yet!

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Birds Myanmar China Chicago 147

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Occasionally the Tristan Thrush Nesocichla eremita will prey upon chicks from the two-egg nest of the Inaccessible Island Rail but this not enough in any way to threaten the species. Its eggs are not known, it does not migrate, and it feeds, I understand, on insects and worms. Immature is overall brownish in colour with dark eye.

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Science Transported Shelters South Africa 198

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

It depicted a Common Loon ( Gavia immer ) sitting on eggs on a seemingly crude nest. Livingston, and on the dust jacket was a drawing of three Pine Grosbeaks ( Pinicola enucleator ) standing on a cone-bearing tree. Common Loon ( Gavia immer) This was a different artist. It caught my full attention and entranced me.

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Birds Woodpeckers Canada Collecting 209

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2023

As a consequence, even though the Verditer Flycatcher does not discriminate against foreign eggs, no cuckoo species has found a viable way to turn it into a useful stepparent. However, with time it has gotten better at rejecting eggs that do not mimic its own eggs well. “Hey, it’s such a beautiful sunny day!

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China Birds Eggs Woodpeckers 169

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Having successfully claimed ownership of the nest, the Piratic Flycatchers move in, lay and incubate their eggs, and ultimately raise their young in the pirated nest. It bears an uncanny resemblance to the extremely common Great Kiskadee ! Piratic Flycatcher. Much rarer and extremely similar is the Variegated Flycatcher.

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Trinidad Abandon Abandoning Abandonment 206

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

Once you reach Coconut Wells the road bears to your right and just as the bitumen ends you take a left turn towards the beach. Last weekend we went by vehicle to check on the Pied Oystercatchers that breed along that stretch of beach and there has been continued egg loss over the past few weeks. Pied Oystercatcher shading an egg.

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Eggs Birds Investigation Bears 140

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2024

So, like a football stadium named after an insurance company, the broadbill ended up bearing a name celebrating a sponsor. Interestingly, the first description of a nest of Whitehead’s Spiderhunter was only published in 2015. I guess it would not be ok to do this to your own relatives, but with strangers, it is probably ok.

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Birds Indonesia Breeding Charlotte 218

10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2022

Once the egg has been laid, the female is chased away and the males hatch it.” Instead, this smallest member of the family Gaviidae breeds in small arctic and boreal lakes, bears relatively plain gray plumage … and utters a call during breeding that is generously described as cacophonous.”

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Birds China Pythons Breeding 200

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

In North America, you’ve got Bears at the large end, Cats in the middle, and at the smaller end, the Mustilids. It is probably true that there is a near 100% overlap in the rodents and other small terrestrial animals, as well as ground bird eggs, eaten by Coyotes and feral Cats. Plus, Coyotes eat Cats.

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Feral Cats North America Feral Cats 253

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2011

What can be said is that among the vertebrates we see around us as we go on our birdwatching expeditions and nature walks, or visits to the retired professor, is this: Above a certain size, birds are small, numerous, and evenly distributed compared to mammals, while below a certain size mammals are small and hiding in the dark compared to birds.

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Mammals Rodents Birds Reptiles 173

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Though the coast of British Columbia, a part of the Great Bear Rainforest, was rich in both, it was appallingly deficient in scientific data. The Achiever’s survey voyages took place from 2005 to 2008; the goal was to collect baseline data on sea mammals and marine birds. And, this was badly needed.

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Fox Albatross Geese Bald Eagle 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2024

Please bear with us while this update takes place.” ” Been bearing with them for quite a while now.

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Squirrels Birds China Bears 136

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2019

For instance, Frederick rejected centuries-old folk wisdom that claimed that Barnacle Geese ( Branta leucopsis ) – a species with a seasonal occurrence in Europe – were born not of eggs laid by breeding geese but were spontaneously incarnated from driftwood afloat at sea.

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2015 Italy Falcons Europe 113

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2012

The IOC world birdlist recognizes 90 species that bear the name “weaver” or “malimbe” Not all of these are true weavers as we will discuss below. African Harrier-Hawks, snakes and other predators frequently raid weaver colonies to rob the nests of eggs and chicks.

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Tanzania Buffalo Kenya Namibia 215

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2020

A European Robin ( Erithacus rubescens ) from British Birds and their Eggs by John Maclair Boraston (1909).

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Ireland Branding Spain Compassion 155

10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2018

That year Congress passed the Lacey Act, followed by the tougher Weeks-McLean Act in 1913 and, five years later, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, which protected not just birds but also their eggs, nests, and feathers 1. They are listed as Vulnerable (VU) on the IUCN red list. But I digress. It is obvious that hunting is NOT conservation.

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Hunting Hunters Gorillas Wolves 109