Breeding Eggs Family Mammals 
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 7, 2021
This may have been partly a leftover from the Victorian fascination with egg collecting (the infamous passion known as oology), but probably more from people’s burgeoning interest in the nests and eggs found in their gardens and fields, gateway artifacts to a newer hobby called birdwatching. Baicich and Colin J.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 13, 2023
Most of them had brought kids along as well (probably among my least favorite mammals), which were pulled on gaudily colored skiing sleds by their hapless parents, creating a constant raucous noise. The rationale includes the speed of the laying (too fast to check for color matches) and the low number of egg-laying attempts (i.e.,
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10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 26, 2022
An additional benefit would be less nest predation by tidal mudflat crabs, the primary cause of Reed Parrotbill egg predation in tidal reed-bed habitat ( source ). According to one paper , the Spotted Redshank is the German among the waders, at least in Finland: its arrival and departure on the breeding grounds are the most predictable.
10,000 Birds
MAY 25, 2023
During the breeding season, some Cattle Egrets look like teenage girls who have just discovered the existence of make-up, and consequently massively overdo it. Still, the ability to identify a leaf warbler by song is a worrying development on the road to becoming a very nerdy birder. It is probably all downhill from here. What’s next?
10,000 Birds
JULY 2, 2014
Hornbills are fantastic birds that have fascinated me since I was able to leaf through the big and lavishly drawn Birds, their Life, their Ways, Their World , that was one of my favorite non-dinosaur (or so I thought at the time) books of my childhood (the other was the twin set mammals of the world by National Geographic). We can hope!
10,000 Birds
JULY 28, 2013
Especially the bird breeding season, which passes by at the blink of an eye. But I took an opportunity to go down to Manitoba with Travis to see my family. This pair first appeared four years ago, and are amongst the most northerly known breeding Pacific Loons in North America. Bonus mammal image, a summer Arctic Hare.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 25, 2022
Echidna-egg laying mammal-500th post. Australian Painted Snipe breeding near Broome once again. I have written about birds that breed here and birds that we observe regularly as well as birds that we only see occasionally. Pied Oystercatcher family. One Tree Hill-Dandenong Ranges National Park. Foster to Toora.
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