10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Of course, Acorn Jay would have been appropriate, as there’s nothing this bird likes more than acorns, as I was reminded during a recent visit to the Greek island of Kefalonia. Not only eggs but nestling birds of many species fall prey to the Jay.”

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Norway Ghana Eggs Japan 202

10,000 Birds

APRIL 27, 2023

Of course, the Red-billed Leiothrix is a species native to Sichuan – in Britain, it is now discussed whether to regard it as an invasive species ( source ). In one group, they added a blue egg to their nests. In the other, they added both such an egg and a peanut half-shell. Keep that in mind when somebody (Marie Kondo?)

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Italy Birds China France 189

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

In Daurian Redstarts , personality traits (specifically, whether a bird is shy or bold) partly determine how good an individual is in rejecting cuckoo eggs in its nest. Apparently, birds that are fast in exploring new things – bold birds – are better at rejecting parasitic eggs ( source ).

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Birds Eggs Bald Eagle Owls 204

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2024

And of course, this entry on the Red-tailed Laughingthrush would not be complete without mentioning a paper that presumably nobody will ever read: “The complete mitochondrial genome of red-tailed laughingthrush ( Garrulax milnei )” As usual, there are many authors (8 in this case), and all seem to be Chinese (also as usual).

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Burma India Birds Indonesia 201

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

.” His classes attracted diverse groups of students, often with little scientific background: “Students have to first pass biology, but most come in knowing next to nothing about birds except that they can fly, that they have feathers, and that they lay eggs.”. But once a week, they were “out the door by 8:05 a.m.

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2018 Agenda Science Eggs 264

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Storks, Ibises and Spoonbills of the World states that “disturbance by local people, tourists, and egg and zoo collectors has similarly reduced the colonies, and more protection is vital”. They are early nesters, but I was unable to tell whether any pairs already had eggs, though I suspected that some might have done.

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Morocco Austria Algeria Germany 226

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2023

And of course, there is the expected paper characterizing the mitochondrial genome of Collared Finchbill. Fortunately for them (though less so for the cuckoo), in one experiment they ejected 100% of all cuckoo model eggs. My mother is dead already, but she might have pointed out that she told me so.

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Vegan Cats Animal Friendly Eggs 179

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2023

In the slightly frighteningly named journal “Science of The Total Environment”, there is a paper on organochlorine compounds in Purple Heron eggs nesting in sites located around a chloralkali plant (Ebro River). Summary result: relevant chemicals emitted by the plant can be found in the eggs.

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Birds Eggs Breeders Breeding 130

10,000 Birds

MAY 10, 2020

The adult Pied Oystercatcher that is sitting on the eggs will lay as flat as possible to protect the eggs. Of course Black Kites also breed and at the moment there is a nest very close to the highway. Pied Oystercatchers at a nest site with Black Kites present.

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Breeding Eggs Raised Protection 152

10,000 Birds

JULY 29, 2018

We have been busy walking the beach and keeping an eye on our local Pied Oystercatchers and the two pairs that laid their eggs earliest for the 2018 breeding season and successfully hatched out their chicks have now lost their chicks to predation. They have only laid one egg so far and another may be laid within a day.

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Eggs Feral Cats Feral 2018 119

10,000 Birds

MAY 28, 2020

Understandably, after all the trouble of incubating the eggs. Of course, being mean, I only show you one of them. Meanwhile, Little Grebes are still in a slightly earlier phase. Little Ringed Plovers are fiercely protective of their cute chicks. A Grey Night Jar does what it does best – being almost invisible.

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Birds Tigers Farming Eggs 164

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2014

Big Egg Marsh in Broad Channel, Queens, hosts a wide variety of shorebirds that come to fatten up on Horseshoe Crab eggs each and every spring. The bulk of the birds is invariably Semipalmated Sandpipers , but there are always Ruddy Turnstones , White-rumped Sandpipers , and, of course, Dunlin.

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Breeding Eggs New York Birds 162

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2015

And of eggs and nests and birds on nests. Into the Nest , as the title says, is about the courting, mating, egg-laying, nesting, and parenting behavior of “familiar birds”. Cedar Waxwings exchange berries, carry nesting material, eggs. Egg biology, from Part I. Oops, the curmudgeon in me slipped.) Peregrine Falcon nests.

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Eggs Family 2006 New York 263

10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2022

Mistletoebird egg incubation is about 10-12 days and then there will be a further 15 days when the young will remain in the nest. Of course, we can’t really complain when we have such lovely blue skies and we are getting to wear some different clothes for a change!

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Australia Eggs Birds Species 147

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2022

While females hatch from larger eggs and are initially heavier than their brothers, after ten days, the male chicks weigh almost 50% more than their sisters, as they receive a higher quantity and quality of prey from their parents ( source ). ” The alternative for people on a limited budget is of course the Little Black Cormorant.

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Birds Australia Parrots Memphis 147

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Of course, it should not be hard to find birds angry with Matthew Gonshaw of London, a pig in human form, who was recently jailed for six months after admitting to “ten charges of theft and possession of rare eggs.” …and some seriously pissed off birds. Perhaps he should be launched from the giant slingshot?

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Pigs Eggs Humane Birds 170

10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2019

Forgetting, of course, that I am an administrator of the page and we have a strict no-specific-locations-of-owls rule.) I got rightly dragged but also heard from the finder of the bird, Jen Kepler, that the bird was indeed real, and really was at Big Egg Marsh. None of them did.

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Owls New York City New York Eggs 113

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 12, 2020

Of course, I always wake up hoping for a lifer or FOY bird. If I had known that these Amanita caesareas smell pleasantly of eggs, I would have taken a sniff. But any birder can tell you that a bad day birding is better than a good day almost anywhere else. The variety of their shapes and colors demanded that I turn my camera earthward.

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Turkey Birds Elephants Eggs 261

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2016

Traditionally since 2000 we have encountered our first Pied Oystercatcher eggs in the first week of July, but this year one pair have decided to start laying eggs early! Sadly they have already lost one clutch of eggs to predation, so by July 1st this year they are on their second clutch. Pied Oystercatcher roost.

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Breeding Eggs Feral Cats 2000 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2021

I guess the whole point about this band name is to suggest -ironically, of course – utter blandness. Hints of potential warming in the HBW species description: “Date of first egg-laying on Honshu now 7 days earlier than it was 25 years ago” There are also quite a few Cuckoos.

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Birds LACS France Japan 231

10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2014

I’d seen pictures of them, of course – the stocky, flamboyantly-beaked little seabirds who always seem to be wearing expressions of sympathetic concern – but I’d never seen one “in bird” (the avian equivalent of “in person”). There are boat trips to Eastern Egg Rock, as well as to other small islands. There’s one!”.

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Puffins Eggs Wildlife Rehabilitation Bald Eagle 274

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2022

According to the HBW, when breeding, male birds do most of the incubation and parenting while females often leave the nest up to one week before the eggs hatch. According to Couzens, after laying the eggs, females sometimes immediately abandon their first mate and pair up with another male. But maybe that is actually a good thing.

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Birds South Korea Japan Abandon 162

10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2014

It’s a gamble every year, of course. Now we gamble again (literally as well as figuratively – there’s a split-pot prize for predicting the dates of arrival, egg-laying, and other major events) on the hope that they will lay viable eggs and successfully rear young. The Ospreys have returned to Dunrovin.

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Eggs 2011 Science Falcons 166

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2022

Of course, the second explanation makes a lot more sense. However, it is kind of sophisticated in that the females lay very individualized eggs in order to be able to detect the added eggs of parasite cuckoo finches. The Latin species name vermiculatus (worm-like) refers to the markings on the upperparts.

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Zimbabwe Birds South Africa Benin 147

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2012

They generally lay four eggs, but we have only seen a maximum of three surviving chicks after a few days. A good indication that they have eggs or young is the extreme noise that they make. They will often fly at both people and other animals in defense of their eggs and young. Masked Lapwing chick hiding in a cow footprint!

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Breeding Cows Eggs 2012 144

10,000 Birds

JULY 25, 2011

The fencing protecting the colony was respected, of course, but the birds often came near the edge of the fencing despite the presence of several photographers. The confiding nature of the birds was, of course, greatly appreciated by the photographers, if the cacophony of clicking was any indication.

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Eggs Protection Birds 215

10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2020

And the nandu, a South American rhea, has an intriguing chick-survival strategy: a week before hatching, the male (who does the incubating) pushes one egg out of the nest. Two days after September 11, 2001 (of course) on a day in the mountains when she sees, for the first time in her life, Bald Eagles (of course) Alejandra becomes pregnant.

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Uruguay 2001 Bald Eagle Science 154

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 19, 2015

I went out into Big Egg Marsh hoping for a Nelson’s Sparrow and found one, though this shot is of a Saltmarsh Sparrow. This Marsh Wren was also at Big Egg Marsh and popped right up for me. The most prevalent wood-warbler all weekend was, of course, the Yellow-rumped Warbler. Ammodramus sparrows are my favorite sparrows.

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New York City New York Sparrows Eggs 153

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Want to see a bird shaped like an egg? And of course, the link to birding at Fraser`s Hill is even harder to make. Orange-breasted Flowerpecker – colorful and almost impossible to get a decent photo of. Orange-bellied Leafbird among leaves: somebody got it right naming this bird. Pygmy Cupwing. Meet Mr. and Ms. Red-headed Trogon.

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Birds Malaysia Morals Asia 206

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The lengthy Introduction gives both a personal history and a global history of birds and art, including brief profiles of John James Audubon and the far lesser known Genevieve Estelle Jones, who conceived of a book eventually called Illustrations of the Nests and Eggs of Birds of Ohio in the late 19th century. Cleaning brushes, for example.

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Birds Eggs Laws Woodpeckers 151

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Jonathan, of course, found this area.) Perhaps the lake’s insects function like the Atlantic Horseshoe Crab eggs that shorebirds gorge on along Chesapeake Bay during their northward spring migration? I was amazed how close to us these Baird’s Sandpipers flew while we were on the lakebed. And, if you are a bird, tasty.

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Ducks 2020 Eggs California 255

10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2023

May is a busy month for birds migrating through Shanghai – and of course, last May was completely missed due to the lockdown. Of course, if you do not like the color red, we can also offer a blue bird – the Siberian Blue Robin. Also, do not smoke as it is not good for your health.

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Birds Raised Cattle Mammals 130

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2024

And we do feel like we know them, not as intimately as Sophie Osborn, of course, but stories create connections, especially when they are lively stories about birds with names and personalities. Familiar subjects to many of us, but ones that take on a new intensity when discussed in connection to birds that you feel you know.

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California Condor Falcons California Birds 179

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 11, 2017

I myself picked up a tick while looking for warblers on Long Island during spring migration and had to do a course of antibiotics that played merry havoc with my digestive system, if you know what I mean. Steal and eat their eggs? Of course, this is fiction. And I think you do. Especially those of you with an all-fish diet.

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Bald Eagle Belize Iowa Eggs 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

This does not happen, of course, because rarities are, by definition, rare, but that doesn’t stop us from hoping. Most birders, myself included, hope to find a rarity or two on every birding outing.

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New York Birds Sparrows Canada 206

10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2018

I, of course said, “what a great idea!” Pairs average 59 successful copulations per clutch, starting 14 days before, and peaking a few days before, the start of egg-laying 1. Pairs copulate most often in early morning, at the same time as egg-laying 1.

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Eggs North America Fish America 109

10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2013

In these situations, the birds have been treated like pests and targeted for extermination, or lost their eggs and nestlings to harvesting of the fields. Of course, the best solution would be for the birds to avoid nesting in farmland at all. federal level, and a Species of Special Concern in California.

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Blackbirds California Cattle Farming 186