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Cavity Nesting Birds of North America and Their Babies!

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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? Talk about cute!

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Comebackers

10,000 Birds

In the mid 1700s, fur-traders began introducing foxes up and down the Aleutian chain, in order to generate some more raw material work with. The most notorious effect is that their eggshells become so thin that a parent bird will crush it’s eggs while attempting to incubate them. That would have been awful. home at Midway Atoll.

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