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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 27, 2023
This rocky area high up beyond the beach sand offers great camouflage and protection. The photo below shows the actual nest with the eggs in, but that may not be initially clear to you, so I have underlined them in a copy of the photo below. They will do it for other threats as a distraction to protect their eggs or chicks.
10,000 Birds
JULY 17, 2012
My morning routine has already been simplified down to the essentials – roll out of bed and out from under the protective mosquito net, pull on dirty odorous field clothes, munch down a quick breakfast. She lays an egg every day or two until completing a clutch of anywhere from five to ten eggs.
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
Of course, that means that the birds I saw on September 30 are now somewhere in blogpost limbo, not having appeared in the September post but also not legitimately belonging in the October one. When there are cuckoos around – which parasitize Daurian Redstarts – the females have a higher rate of egg rejection.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 2, 2015
I’m happy to say that Laura Erickson and Marie Read have written a book, Into the Nest: Intimate Views of the Courting, Parenting, and Family Lives of Familiar Birds , that is not too cute and that does not anthropomorphize. And of eggs and nests and birds on nests. Cedar Waxwings exchange berries, carry nesting material, eggs.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 25, 2022
In my imagination, the job of a male Australian Brush Turkey is pretty similar – removing or adding bits and pieces to his pile of rotting vegetation in order to get the right temperature to incubate the eggs buried underneath to hatch. The Australasian Figbird is a member of the Oriole family despite not being yellow.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 22, 2022
Reportedly, the Water Thick-knee sometimes locates its nest close to the nest of Nile crocodiles as this offers some protection. Of course, the second explanation makes a lot more sense. A bit like renting an apartment next to a mass murderer in the hope that this will deter other criminals, but as they say, nature knows best.
10,000 Birds
MAY 25, 2016
Of course, when I get back to the gallery, and I am looking at the shots from the day, I am always impressed with the poise, color and beauty of the bird. They are part of the Penduline family, and resemble the true t**s in most ways, but have sharp pointed bills.
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