10,000 Birds
MARCH 29, 2024
Research by the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust has shown that predation by Foxes (of both eggs and chicks) is one of the most serious factors limiting the success of nesting Curlews. The following May she was found on a nest with four eggs at RAF Honnington (four miles from my home) by Harry Ewing, an ecologist with Natural England.
10,000 Birds
JULY 18, 2012
Wood Duck ( Aix sponsa ) Female Incubating Eggs in a Nest Box “Many species of cavity-nesting birds have declined because of habitat reduction. This is the female incubating eggs in the nest box… and a couple of weeks later… then, at the ripe old age of 17 days, what’s going on out here? References: 1 Scott, Virgil E.,
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10,000 Birds
MAY 2, 2011
From what I read, birds are the class of Aves [feathered, winged, bipedal, warm-blooded, egg-laying and vertebrate animals]. I downloaded the entire spreadsheet, which includes subspecies as well, and sifted my way through 31,660 rows of spreadsheet. Life, Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species. Who knew?].
10,000 Birds
JUNE 20, 2012
It is illegal for any person to take, possess, transport, sell, or purchase them or their parts, such as feathers, nests, or eggs, without a permit. You can download the information on controlling Cliff Swallows in PDF format from the University of California here. Because IT IS ILLEGAL TO INTERFERE WITH NESTING BIRDS!!
10,000 Birds
JUNE 19, 2013
Plus the fact that they only lay one egg per season which is incubated for about four weeks and the chicks don’t fledge for another fifty days gives you some notion as to why these birds are a Species of Special Concern. Pairs will also reuse the same nest in consecutive years, adding only a small amount of material to the nest.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 15, 2011
They have special adaptations to stay warm and to keep their eggs and chicks warm. If you’d like a two page (one sheet, duplex) handout for your class, download THIS PDF FILE. Penguins are flightless, but some species locomote over long distances on antarctic ice to travel between breeding grounds and the sea.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 6, 2012
The team explored Nevada and Utah, with Ridgway collecting thousands of bird specimen, plus nests and eggs for the Smithsonian. Or, you can do what I did and download a Kindle version for a little more than half that price. Yale University Press kindly sent me a review copy afterwards.)
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