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.

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Dissection Birds Research Europe 212

10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2020

Her narrator is Gabriel, 23, raised in Northern California by an American father and a Uruguayan mother. Things get complicated – and then, completely out of hand — when Gabe’s new inamorata is introduced to his family. They fly at night and end up in places you wouldn’t expect them.”.

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Uruguay 2001 Bald Eagle Science 152

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2017

Laysan albatrosses are ocean-dwelling seabirds who have 6-foot wingspans, weigh 7-8 pounds, occasionally sleep while flying, and rarely land except to raise their chicks. The oldest Laysan albatross was last seen raising a chick on Midway Atoll in 2016, at age 66. They were simply sent to Family Court. Gutierrez was 18.

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Albatross Honolulu Hawaii Killing 214

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2016

Birds like cuckoos, who lay their eggs in songbirds’ nests, and whose young then off the hosts’ own chicks, tend to avoid cities. This may help songbirds successfully raise their families without worrying about invaders. And that appeal is relief from the threat of brood parasitism.

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China Europe Research Falcons 101

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2017

Masked Lapwings have been busy breeding for some months now and some may well be on their second clutch of eggs. On a recent day trip to Derby from Broome we took the road into the Derby airport to get views of the end of the mudflats and encountered a Masked Lapwing sitting on eggs and chicks right beside the main road at the airport.

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Breeding Eggs Protection Cows 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 23, 2012

The female rhythmically moved her body left and right and the male tried his best to keep his balance as he followed her movements The occasional flashes of white, which first caught our attention, were the male’s underwings, displayed as he raised his wings to regain balance when he lost synchrony with the female’s movement.

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Sri Lanka Eggs Raised Investigation 184

10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2023

While having somebody else raise your chicks like an attractive strategy to me, it is not without dangers. Not only does this species directly parasitize other species but also metaphorically, by imitating the sparrowhawks in its appearance and thus deterring potential predators.

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Birds Raised Cattle Mammals 130

10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2019

The first time I visited the 30 acre enclosure, I walked the raised boardwalk over the space with eyes wide. On large islands shaded with multiple trees, a family of orangutans and another of gorillas lounged in the green grass. Just beyond a fence, a pair of rhino adults and one baby munched contentedly on hay.

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Geese Zoos Canada Rhinos 113

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. Using the icons to locate specific bird families takes a little getting used to, but if you do it often it works well as a finding tool. I didn’t.). ” These are all great.

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North America America Birds California Condor 278

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

The Juniper Titmouse ( Baeolophus ridgwayi ) is a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae. But a Bewick’s Wren did build a nest, which it promptly abandoned before laying any eggs. But perhaps “tweets” simply went out that Aldea is a great place to raise chicks. So, how many chicks hatched in my two boxes? Others had more luck.

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2017 New Mexico Groups Abandon 148

10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2017

There had been a grader along the fence-line many years ago leaving a lower area that was very flooded and the raised dirt it had left behind was the perfect location for a pair of nesting Australian Painted Snipe. Australian Painted Snipe nest with four eggs. Four eggs in the Australian Painted Snipe nest.

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Breeding Eggs Raised 2017 100

4 The Love Of Animals

DECEMBER 20, 2013

The nearly two-week-old king chick is now weighing in at 30 ounces (882 grams) and currently being raised by its parents with routine check-ups from the SeaWorld Orlando Aviculture Team who monitor the chick’s weight and overall development. Although small now, it will grow to be more than 24 pounds (11 kilograms) and over 2.5

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Penguins Transported Eggs Raised 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2011

The first eggs are laid during the first week of July each year and if these eggs fail to hatch or the chicks are lost they will lay further eggs within a few weeks. Sadly a lot of eggs are lost to feral cats and chicks are sometimes taken by birds of prey. Nest site with 3 eggs-one white!

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2002 Feral Cats Eggs 2007 166

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2016

Channel-billed Cuckoos have now left the Broome area and have headed north, but are the largest of the cuckoo family to visit the Broome area. Pheasant Coucals are also a member of the cuckoo family, but are unique because they do actually raise their own young. Pallid Cuckoo.

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United Kingdom Raised 2013 Africa 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2016

They are part of the Penduline family, and resemble the true t**s in most ways, but have sharp pointed bills. The nest is lined with grass, leaves and feathers, and will have up to four blue-green eggs with red spots. I have read where the Verdin will raise two brood per year, but I have seen no proof of that in my field work.

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Eggs Raised Protection Family 103

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 12, 2012

After 28 days of sharing the duty of sitting on three eggs we finally had the arrival of our first Pied Oystercatcher chicks for 2012 on Friday August 3rd. It is unusual for three eggs to be laid here in Broome and many eggs do not even hatch due to predation each season. I quickly took a photo and returned to the wet sand.

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Eggs Dogs Shelters Family 176

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2012

It seems strange that I’ll miss the return of the Sun this year, as I leave this week for a trade show and then a short trip out west to see my family. I’ve family to raise and no time for modeling.” Typically there are four eggs in a brood especially on good year. “Do you mind?

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South America Eggs Family Raised 159

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2011

If you cannot find the nest or it’s too destroyed, do not try and raise a chick this young. It’s illegal to raise wild birds (even orphaned ones) without state and federal permits. Try to get it too another family group or contact a wildlife rehabber. Never raise a wild goose or duckling yourself.

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Birds Fox Raised Ducks 265

10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2014

Okay, they weren’t as fascinating as the birds of prey eating their, or the frankly still weird drawings of nightjars carrying eggs and woodcocks carrying chicks, but still, hornbills were cool because they sealed their mates up in holes in trees and then fed them as they raised the chick.

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Singapore Uganda Malaysia Seals 169

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2012

Back on the bank it gave itself a doggy shake to dry out and held its feathers slightly raised from its body to help them dry, making itself look even bigger than it already was. As the name suggests, the Goliath Heron is the world’s biggest member of the Ardea family.

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Hunting Battery Raised Adoptable 182

Animal Ethics

JULY 21, 2010

To the Editor: In your July 12 editorial “ A Humane Egg ,” you disparage the modern, sanitary housing systems for egg-laying hens, which have improved chickens’ health and well-being, improved consumer food safety and kept eggs a nutritious and economical staple on kitchen tables and restaurant menus nationwide.

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New York Times New York Factory Farm Factory Farming 40

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2022

The one bird I did not see here, however, was the Bateleur Eagle … One highlight in the area is the Saddle-billed Stork , likely to be the tallest species in the stork family. Another member of the stork family, the African Openbill , looks like it is could benefit from a good orthodontist. And sadly, it is listed as Endangered.

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Ostriches Parrots Birds Eggs 147

Animal Person

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

And there is a family in rural England who charts their energy use and we see that food is the second highest use of energy for them (air travel takes up the most). And the wife says that one thing the family does is eat less meat and eggs (and they raise the animals on their land), but even that is glossed over.

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Nigeria Vegan Neglecting Vegetarian 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

For the purpose of this post being of a reasonable length, I’m only going to touch on members of the Tyrannidae family of New World Flycatchers which can be found in the cocoa estates of Trinidad and Tobago. Even though they belong to the same family, many flycatchers have different habits. Yellow-breasted Flycatcher.

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Trinidad Abandon Abandoning Abandonment 206

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

The species are taxonomically divided into two families: Tytonidae, Barn-Owls, and Strigidae, Owls, encompassed in one order, Strigiformes. When you look at Clements latest taxonomic spreadsheet, you get a sense of the depth of their relationships to each other and the world. This is a great summer read.

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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 203

10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2023

Pacific Black Ducks lay up to 16 eggs and sometimes two clutches are raised in a year. Some of the larger families of Pacific Black Ducks are already reduced in size and by the time the young ducklings look like the adults their numbers have diminished. The stripe around their eyes makes them quite a distinctive duck.

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Ducks Australia Eggs Raised 130

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Another member of the magpie family, the White-winged Magpie , makes do with far fewer colors. In providing this information, they quote extensively from an ornithology book that was published 3 years before I was born (and I am not a young man). Apparently, if exposed to sunlight, the green of the magpie plumage may turn blue.

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China Birds Pythons Eagles 220

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2012

A few families have a small number of eggs in the clutches, like gulls or cormorants. Others, like the petrels and some of the auks, will lay a single egg per breeding attempt. Unique among the auks, indeed among seabirds, they will attempt to double brood, to lay another clutch after successfully raising the first chick.

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Eggs Puffins Breeding Raised 164

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2013

And on this visit, we were there in time to see feeding for the kiwi chicks the centre was raising. To deal with this peril to one of New Zealand’s most important birds (or family of birds, there are five species of kiwi), one bank has been spearheading a campaign to save those chicks. So what was going on? It goes like this.

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New Zealand Raised Rats Endangered Species 160

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

In the former, a female lays her fertilized egg in the nest of another species, in the hopes that her offspring will be raised by the unwitting hosts. In the latter, three or more adult individuals contribute to the raising of offspring. It turns out that the two strategies may be related.

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Breeders Breeding Birds Groups 196

10,000 Birds

JUNE 25, 2017

Australasian Grebes will take advantage of good conditions and raise up to three clutches of eggs and by the numbers of birds currently around the Broome area now it does appear that they took advantage of the big rain even early this year. Adult Australasian Grebe.

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Breeding Geese Ducks Eggs 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2012

The Australian Brush-turkey is far enough removed from the American Turkey’s Phasianidae family to not even get considered for wedding and funeral invitations. It belongs instead to the Megapodiidae branch of the Galliformes family tree. The male builds the mound and will seek to entice multiple females to lay their eggs into it.

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Turkey Birds Eggs Family 184

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Bowerbirds are a unique family of birds found only in Australia and New Guinea. If she is impressed, she accepts his one single contribution to the raising of the next generation. She makes the nest, incubates the eggs and feeds the young solo. The males are more decorative and colourful than the females.

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Guinea Australia Birds Eggs 260

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2012

The Natural History section points out that Red-tailed Pennants hold their wings flat or slightly lowered, while the skimmers tend to raise their wings. Species accounts are organized by family; Broad-winged, Spreadwing, and Pond for damselflies and Petaltail, Darner, Clubtail, Spiketail, Cruiser, Emerald, and Skmmer for Dragonflies.

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United States Costa Rica Massachusetts North America 227

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 29, 2006

According to Dr. Spock: Most families have become more conscious about the fat content of meats, and many are choosing the lower-fat cuts. My emphasis] There are other reasons why families are looking more favorably at plant-based choices. There is no need for infants to be raised on cow's milk formulas.

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Animal Meat Cows District of Columbia 40

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. One puzzle solved.

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Birds China Eggs Breeding 147