Breeding Eggs Rights South America 
10,000 Birds
JULY 17, 2012
Green-rumped Parrotlets: from egg to adult Text and photographs copyright Nick Sly (except Rae Okawa where indicated) and are used with his permission. You don’t really know a bird until you’ve studied it on its breeding grounds. She lays an egg every day or two until completing a clutch of anywhere from five to ten eggs.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 5, 2015
The Andean Flamingo ( Phoenicopterus andinus ) is one of the three flamingos occurring in the high Andes of South America. 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.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 25, 2013
While the native apple snail continued declining, another species of apple snail native to South America began to appear in canals and ponds in South Florida. The baseball-sized “Island apple snail”, as this exotic snail is known, spreaded through South Florida. Native snails lay 20-50 eggs at a time during the spring.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 22, 2012
Right now we’re pretty much a three species town, Ravens with a chance of Hoary Redpolls and a sprinkling of Rock Ptarmigan. (I The peak of this activity is over in about a week, and the birds head upland to nest (for the most part, as some have nested right at the edge of the water. This was a later nest.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 20, 2012
Cliff Swallows migrate to North America from their wintering grounds in South America to nest in large colonies, sometimes numbering in the thousands. In addition to their homing tendency, breeding swallows are attracted to old nests. Under suitable conditions, a nest is quite durable and can be used in successive years.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 31, 2014
In her free time she travels near and far to find birds to continue building her life list, though many of her favorites can still be found right in her own backyard. The park is home to not one, not two, but large three colonies of breeding seabirds: the Brown Noddy , Magnificent Frigatebird , and Sooty Tern. Lots and lots of birds.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 1, 2021
Yes, it’s nice to have information on 817 birds, and it’s wonderful to have full descriptions and photographs of birds commonly seen in Central and South America. A small range map is placed in the upper right/left hand corner showing summer, winter, resident, migration, and rare locations. SPECIES ACCOUNTS.
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