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Magpie-lark breeding near Broome

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Magpie-larks have been busy at all of the muddy puddles in recent months collecting mud to make their nests. Whilst enjoying the Magpie Geese breeding around Broome recently we also noticed a Magpie-lark nest close to the highway in one of the very few trees beside the road. Magpie-lark nest on the left of the tree.

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The return of the Old Man

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Sadly, they no longer breed in Algeria, while in Turkey no free-flying birds remain. (In Intriguingly, there are far more Bald Ibises in captivity than there are in the wild, for this is a bird that breeds readily in confinement. In 2018, there were 1,745 birds living in 92 different zoos and collections.

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Rancho Naturalista Lodge, Costa Rica, or in the Land of Coffee and Chocolate

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There was a Gartered Trogon right above me, and one cooperative Brown-throated Three-toed Sloth on a cecropia tree, raising its head to smile at us. Young birds, at least in captivity, become mature after 5 years and start breeding after 6 or 7 years. A group (maybe 4-5 ex.)

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Protection for a fee: Band-tailed Gulls and Red-legged Cormorants

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With birds, this happens when one takes prey or other food caught or collected by another. Instead of hovering, some gulls have set up territories within breeding colonies of Humboldt seabirds. The gulls breed their young and the cormorants raise their young successfully as shown by the size of the two young birds in the photos.

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An Englishman’s home……

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These ponds and the larger Cedar Lake and collection pond hold Tufted Duck , Greylag Goose and Eurasian Moorhen. Until the turn of the century, a wildfowl collection and extensive aviaries were kept at the castle. The exotics have now mostly been dispersed to other collections, but a few remain.

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Pied Oystercatcher chicks four weeks on….

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It has been a few years since I could share some good news about the Pied Oystercatchers breeding along the coast near Broome. Hopefully you won’t mind me writing a bit more this year about Pied Oystercatchers during the breeding season!

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A Twitch at Two, and the Flood

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But I’m not talking about owling, or listening for rails, or even pointing a microphone skyward to collect flight calls of migrants. Which these days involves a frenzy to breed and raise a brood. .” This is the 3rd year for these most northerly known breeding pair of loons. In breeding plumage!