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How do I care for these bird eggs?

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I safely relocated the nest into a cardboard box, and I'm assuming the birds will not come back for the eggs since I cannot put them back in the construction site. I'm pretty positive that these are robin eggs. Any advice on what I should do with these eggs?

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Pied Oystercatcher eggs become chicks

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One of the pairs of Pied Oystercatchers on Cable Beach have hatched their eggs this week. There had been one egg in the nest scrape on July 25th and a second egg followed. This Tuesday I was expecting the eggs to start to hatch and they did just that. Shading two eggs.

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Anyone know what animal laid these eggs!?

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My work is trying to remove the eggs since they don’t know what laid them. Are they duck eggs? submitted by /u/carolinee-weeb [link] [comments]

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Echidna-egg laying mammal-500th post!

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When I realised that this weekend would be my 500th post for this website I thought I could broaden the “birding” topic to “egg-laying” topic. In Australia we have two egg-laying mammals. As if this mammal was not odd enough with its spines and being an egg-laying mammal it also has a four-headed appendage.

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What animal lays eggs and the little embryo had heaps of little copper wire like ears?

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I dug a hole for a sewage pit in Australia and found this little egg in the hole I was digging, it had embryo in it and had heaps of little copper wire like ears. does anyone know what this animal could of been? I put it in a draw but the next morning it was gone. Im thinking echidna maybe? No I wasn’t high.

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Nest On My Backyard Lightcam with a new Egg - Can I move it?

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But nope, the built it and then they laid an egg in it. I have tons of trees and could put it close but not sure if they would be able to find it and don't want them to abandon their egg. when I did I realized I was being watched by the bird. I assumed I had frightened them and they wouldn't return. Can I safely move it?

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Black-fronted Dotterels maintaining egg temperature

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Although I have written about this small resident shorebird breeding in the past I have now been able to obtain photographs of it maintaining egg temperature on very hot and dry days. We sat down and only a few moments later one of the pair of Black-fronted Dotterels walked towards us and hovered over two eggs!

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