Breeding Collecting Eggs Protection 
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
Sadly, they no longer breed in Algeria, while in Turkey no free-flying birds remain. (In Storks, Ibises and Spoonbills of the World states that “disturbance by local people, tourists, and egg and zoo collectors has similarly reduced the colonies, and more protection is vital”. In 1890 an estimated 3,000 pairs nested in Birecik.)
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
The European Breeding Bird Atlas 2 makes interesting reading. Originally confined to the Arctic, breeding [of Barnacle Geese] is now confirmed throughout much of the Baltic coast S North Sea. A pair did lay infertile eggs in Iceland in 2018, but that’s about the only record I can find).
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10,000 Birds
JULY 17, 2012
My morning routine has already been simplified down to the essentials – roll out of bed and out from under the protective mosquito net, pull on dirty odorous field clothes, munch down a quick breakfast. You don’t really know a bird until you’ve studied it on its breeding grounds. Here is a little forpling on day one.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 5, 2015
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. The Andean Flamingo is now protected under the Endangered Species Act of 1973. Photo: Marcio Cabral de Mora – Flickr).
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
In the non-breeding season, male Baya Weavers sometimes enter the basket-making trade, often with considerable success. Meanwhile, the females seem to have a much more relaxing life, at least in this early stage of the breeding season. The associated bird species seek out drongos, apparently relying upon them heavily for protection.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 25, 2022
However, the lockdown forces me to go deeper and deeper into my photo collection, if I want to write anything at all. On a side note, the bird is also kind of ugly, so maybe the chicks never seeing their father has a certain protective function. It breeds in tree holes, presumably explaining the more commonly used name for it.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 2, 2015
Third, observing and photographing breeding birds and their young have become acts of ethical confusion as birders, photographers, and organizational representatives debate the impact of our human presence on the nesting process. And of eggs and nests and birds on nests. Cedar Waxwings exchange berries, carry nesting material, eggs.
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