Ducks Eggs Raised Research 
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
They may be about bird eggs ( The Most Perfect Thing: The Inside (and Outside) of a Bird’s Egg , 2016), or a 17th-century ornithologist ( Virtuoso by Nature: The Scientific Worlds of Francis Willughby, 2016), or How Bullfinches learn songs from humans ( The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 28, 2014
Among birds the Egyptian Vulture uses rocks to crack Ostrich eggs, the New Caledonian Crow and Woodpecker Finch (one of several Darwin Finches of the Galapagos Islands), uses sticks to extract grubs from inside a branch. Egyptian Vultures raised is isolation used rocks to crack eggs presented to them. The behavior was inherent.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 1, 2021
If you remember that the first edition of Sibley was published with “National Audubon Society” on the cover, raise your hand. I am particularly happy to see that the bird communication section includes recent research on singing female birds. Plate 28 from Audubon Bird Guide, Eastern Land Birds, by Richard H.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 24, 2012
This week at 10,000 Birds, it’s all about how birds get around to bumping uglies (I’m talking about cloacas here), who they do it with, and how this actually leads to raising chicks…the birds and the bees of birds, you might say. Ducks, like these Chiloe Wigeon , are infamous for their violent, sometimes forced copulations.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 9, 2011
Take a look at this little Blue Tit and admit that you have never seen a more pathetic picture of a bird that combines the colours blue, yellow, green, white, and black in the most marvellous way you have ever seen: Recent research has shown that Leonardo da Vinci showed a Blue Tit to his model while he painted the smile on “Mona Lisa&#.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 17, 2013
02–19 There may be a crisis of the Duck Stamp, and the relationship between duck hunting, habitat preservation, and funding may be shifting as Duck numbers and Duck stamp sales no longer correlate. Researchers] found skin impressions on parts of the mummified body. Birds Bird evolution research'
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 1, 2022
I have written about the interesting sex life of these jacanas a few times already (short version: female mates with male, lays a bunch of eggs for him to incubate and raise the chicks, leaves him, finds another male, repeat). Once I am moderately successful, I often find such photos quite pleasing. but they do. See the sequence below.
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