10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

There is a great song by The Chills titled “ Complex “ Great link, right? In Daurian Redstarts , personality traits (specifically, whether a bird is shy or bold) partly determine how good an individual is in rejecting cuckoo eggs in its nest. A nice example of gender equality of sorts.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

If you’re a cuckoo or cowbird hoping to pawn off your parenting duties on another species, new brood parasitism research shows you’ll have better luck if the eggs you deposit in their nest are blue-green instead of brown. And as a ferocious storm bears down on much of the northern U.S.,

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Massachusetts Eggs Falcons Rights 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 16, 2020

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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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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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

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. This also might be a way to compromise with swallows who try to build right over your home’s doorway.

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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. There is no doubt about it, this is a striking bird. Just lazy ones.

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