Breeding Eggs Hunters Research 
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
When I showed a photo of the Blood Pheasant to a German hunter, he complained that this pheasant has “no tail” And eBird calls it a “chunky partridgelike pheasant” – same gist, I guess. So, researchers looked at the habitat use of Blood Pheasants as related to the presence of livestock.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 9, 2015
The nickel was placed in the nest for the photo to show me the size of the egg for identification purposes, then removed. Even though the female lays only two eggs per nest attempt, they enjoy a protracted breeding season in which multiple nesting attempts can occur every 30 days, and in Southern locations, nearly year round.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2024
Lead shot injured and killed condors young and old, lead in the carrion they ate, lead in the bullets that hunters shot at them. Well-researched and footnoted, these sections never feel disconnected from the more personal sections. Endangered. Extinction. Conservation.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2013
A breeding bird atlas is a special kind of book. For birders, it’s the extremely large book, shelved in a place where it can’t crush the field guides, used to research the history of a bird in their area. So, what exactly does a breeding bird atlas contain? The resulting book, 616 pages in length, 6.4
10,000 Birds
JULY 24, 2014
Unfortunately for the hunters these were already all extinct, and with the introduction of cats, rats, stoats and the like the only upland game bird, the New Zealand Quail , was fast on the way out too. Using ministerial connections he obtained 100 mallard eggs from the US and began to breed and distribute them.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 4, 2012
The length of each bird species account varies, depending on whether the bird is native or a “visitor” (the book’s term for migrant) or vagrant, breeding or non breeding. They breed in dense colonies, incubate their single egg on the feet, and take more than a year to fledge a chick.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
How many eggs did a pigeon lay? He reasons out answers to both questions, finally stating that, despite what many eyewitnesses wrote, the birds had to have laid more than one egg and that the birds had to have nested more than once a breeding season. This is not that kind of book, as Fuller makes clear from the beginning.
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