10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2016

While so many spent the weekend obsessing over eggs, others cast their eyes to the feathered fruit of eggs… not necessarily Easter eggs, but different, non-chicken eggs. It’s tough to beat calling red-shoulders interrupting the kickball game with the kids! How about you?

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2016 Eggs Chickens New York 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

I used to play Subbuteo as a kid … a kind of tip-kick football game that was named after this species (apparently, the inventors first wanted to name the game “Hobby” but that was rejected as too generic, or so the story goes). The Eurasian Hobby was another notable raptor of the month. Not this one though.

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Birds China Eggs Owls 190

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). Apparently, after a male first mates with a female, he throws out the first one or two eggs she lays in their nest.

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Birds China Eggs Breeding 147

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The species is classified as Near Threatened for all the usual depressing reasons – pollution, drainage, hunting, and the collection of eggs and nestlings ( source ). My cats refuse to even try Fiery Minivets. Trust me, the species name makes sense for the male, though not for the female. It is also classified as Near Threatened.

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Birds Sri Lanka Taiwan Cats 201

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2013

Scientific experiments would be needed to demonstrate true cause-and-effect, but the extra attention appeared to pay off. It really looked like a game of tag. As the weaker juvenile became stronger, its flight mentor stepped up the game, though I didn’t realize it at first. They would feed a bite to one.

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Eagles Bald Eagle Seattle Game 181

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2019

While the hunting of game with trained birds of prey can be a controversial topic among birders , falconry was a valuable early source of information on birds, and its history, culture, and imagery continue to fascinate bird lovers, as we shall see.

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2015 Italy Falcons Europe 113

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 5, 2015

Did you know for example that some species of bee are cleptoparasites , exploiting the nests of other species for their own eggs. The workings of a bee colony put me in mind of George R R Martin’s A Game of Thrones. The preface opened my eyes to the wonderful world of bees and had me gagging for answers.

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Ireland United States Game Species 101