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Fully fledged Pied Oystercatcher chick

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The defining features that identify it from the parents are the grey legs and the black bill tip. On a rising tide the Pied Oystercatcher family soon found a good position to watch and wait until the reef was exposed once again. Pied Oystercatcher family at roost. They do not attempt to breed for about seven years.

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Outstanding Pied Oystercatcher parenting!

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Of the sixteen pairs of Pied Oystercatchers between Gantheaume Point and Willie Creek on the south side, which is a length of breeding territories covering 23 kilometres-just over 14 miles-only one chick fledges most years. There is egg predation, chick loss and sometimes possibly just some “bad parenting”!

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National Audubon Society Birds of North America: A Guide Review

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inches, 3 pounds, 624 pages; the additional width and weight, though not that much, seem to be tipping points, making the Audubon guide look and feel more massive than it really is. Using the icons to locate specific bird families takes a little getting used to, but if you do it often it works well as a finding tool.

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The long journey home

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It seems strange that I’ll miss the return of the Sun this year, as I leave this week for a trade show and then a short trip out west to see my family. I’ve family to raise and no time for modeling.” Typically there are four eggs in a brood especially on good year. “Do you mind? This was a later nest.

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Phillipps’ Field Guide to the Birds of Borneo: A Book Review

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Not a great place for a family vacation, though I think Duncan will disagree. This is evident in the introductory material, which includes sections on The Origin and Evolution of Borneo’s Birds, Conservation in Action, Vegetation and Bird Life in Borneo, Climate, Rainfall and Bird Breeding Seasons, and Bird Migration.

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What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds: A Book Review

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The species are taxonomically divided into two families: Tytonidae, Barn-Owls, and Strigidae, Owls, encompassed in one order, Strigiformes. The chapters on courtship and breeding and roosting and migration are the longest, which isn’t surprising. They roost and hunt, at night (mostly) when we can’t see them.

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Britain’s Dragonflies & Britain’s Butterflies: A Review of Two Field Guides

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It covers 63 odonate species: 44 breeding species (19 damselfly, 25 dragonfly), and, in a second part of the Species Accounts, 19 vagrant, potential vagrant and former breeding species (5 damselfly, 14 dragonfly). Sections on Behaviour, Breeding Habitat, and Population and Conservation offer brief but specific information.

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