10,000 Birds
MAY 10, 2024
Unlike the Common Cuckoo, the young GSC doesn’t eject its foster parents’ eggs or chicks from the nest, but is reared alongside them. Blackbirds and Wrens are common, and you will find Grey Wagtails on the streams. Apparently if there’s more than one GSC chick in a nest, the younger one is likely to starve.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 2, 2015
Which is not to say that it doesn’t contain striking images of birds parenting the most adorable songbirds, owls, and heron nestlings imaginable. And of eggs and nests and birds on nests. Into the Nest , as the title says, is about the courting, mating, egg-laying, nesting, and parenting behavior of “familiar birds”.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 16, 2012
I was delighted by the invitation and spent hours going through my photos, printing them out, imagining fifteen 4-year olds entranced by egrets, herons, and Burrowing Owls. Jake’s favorite before-bedtime book when he was just a bit younger was Owl Babies by Martin Waddell, a picture book I had picked up at a nature center.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 5, 2015
People brought us a Brewer’s Blackbird nestling they’d fed hot dogs and spaghetti,” wrote Veronica Bowers. “He And scrambled eggs,” added Hilary Lewis. “I We had a Barred Owl they were feeding Doritos.”. “We We have a resident Eastern Screech Owl who was fed dry oats for ten days BY A VETERINARIAN!” wrote Maryjane Angelo.
10,000 Birds
JULY 6, 2019
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 24, 2012
Aside from geese, various albatross, alcids, eagles, owls, cranes, swans and condors have life partners as well. There is some debate on the reproductive/genetic benefits of this, although a common view is that individuals don’t want all their eggs in one genetic basket, so to speak (pun intended, zing!).
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 3, 2018
Pacific Screech-Owl – Megascops cooperi. Stygian Owl – Asio stygius. Bare-shanked Screech-Owl – Megascops clarkii. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Eurasian Scops-Owl – Otus scops. Verreaux’s Eagle-Owl – Bubo lacteus. Green-and-rufous Kingfisher – Chloroceryle inda.
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