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MARCH 11, 2024

This laughingthrush is a cooperative breeder – nestlings are fed by all members of a group, often 6-12 (not just 2 as in Wham!): “A female may share a nest with another, and 3 or more adults may take turns incubating the eggs and feeding the chicks.” ” ( source ).

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Critter News

APRIL 10, 2009

Sometime soon, David Radlo of Radlo Foods says his sign in front of the former DeCoster Egg Farm will be coming down and all his business at the massive egg operation in Turner will come to an end. Instead, Eggland's Best says it will get classic brown eggs from other locations. Here's a link to the investigative video.

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JUNE 15, 2016

Two different females among the captive group have laid eggs , and scientists are keeping a watchful eye on a few others. While it’s still a bit early to say how many of the eggs will develop into healthy chicks, this is wonderful news for the Spoonies and their fans worldwide.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

The Aldea Birding Group that spearheaded this project placed 70 nest boxes in our open spaces and pulled in volunteers to monitor them during the bird’s mating season. But a Bewick’s Wren did build a nest, which it promptly abandoned before laying any eggs. Well, as a birder, how can you resist getting involved? Others had more luck.

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MAY 10, 2020

The adult Pied Oystercatcher that is sitting on the eggs will lay as flat as possible to protect the eggs. The header photo shows the small group of trees where the Black Kites have chosen to nest this year. We really don’t like the presence of Black Kites along the beach when the Pied Oystercatchers are breeding.

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JUNE 6, 2021

By the size of the juvenile birds the adults must have laid the eggs several months ago when the rains came to that area of Western Australia. One family of Yellow-billed Spoonbills all lined up together on the one branch over the river and made for an impressive group of birds. Juvenile and adult Yellow-billed Spoonbill.

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MAY 17, 2023

This has obviously involved the active targeting of Moruga Grasshopper eggs and young, and an all-out attack involving chemical warfare. The whole reason I was exploring this area can be traced to a report of multiple sightings of small groups of the migratory Yellow-billed Cuckoo.

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JULY 1, 2018

This year is the eighteenth year since we discovered our first Pied Oystercatcher nest on Cable Beach in Broome and it didn’t take us long to realise that they are not at all successful at raising young due to egg and chick predation. Each year we hope for anther success, but so far it has not happened. Pied Oystercatcher nest.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Egg harvesting to sell as food was intensive then, with thousands taken annually from the breeding colonies in Chile. Egg collection for local consumption still continues at lower scale. Conservation organizations such as the Flamingo Specialist Group is actively trying to inform the public on the vulnerability of flamingos.

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AUGUST 22, 2022

However, it is kind of sophisticated in that the females lay very individualized eggs in order to be able to detect the added eggs of parasite cuckoo finches. If you come across a group on the ground foraging for food, look around and you will find one bird sitting in a vantage point, ready to give the alarm call in case of any danger.

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AUGUST 12, 2020

If I had known that these Amanita caesareas smell pleasantly of eggs, I would have taken a sniff. A group of exceedingly tame domestic turkeys had gathered near it, and two had decided it looked like a great roosting site. The variety of their shapes and colors demanded that I turn my camera earthward. Then I saw its shiny partner.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2021

” His classes attracted diverse groups of students, often with little scientific background: “Students have to first pass biology, but most come in knowing next to nothing about birds except that they can fly, that they have feathers, and that they lay eggs.”. But once a week, they were “out the door by 8:05 a.m.

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MARCH 5, 2017

There were several family groups that included three adult birds, so we presume that these were male Magpie Geese that had two partners. Both of the female Magpie Geese would have laid their eggs in the same nest and there could have been up to sixteen eggs in the nest at any one time. Magpie Goose family-three adults.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2014

There is egg predation, chick loss and sometimes possibly just some “bad parenting”! One pair of Pied Oystercatchers laid eggs the first year and did not appear to realise they were supposed to sit on them, but they have since learnt it is an essential part of rearing a chick and they have done so since.

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MAY 12, 2016

Least Tern watching over its egg. From where I stood I spotted my very first Least Tern egg of the year, smooth and camouflaged near one of its parents. The Black Skimmers also lay on their stomachs, but I didn’t see their eggs on this trip.

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AUGUST 3, 2021

Signaling theory examines communication between individuals and groups, within and across species, focusing on whether signals–communications containing complex information–are honest or deceptive and how the exchange of these signals impacts the individuals involved and the larger group or groups to which they belong.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The HBW accurately hints at the difficulties of getting a photo of this bird: “Generally hiding deep in shrubbery, where it forages in small groups for seeds on and near the ground, and revealing itself only when singing from the top of a bush, this is not an easy bird to study.”

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MAY 22, 2019

Cars whiz past the nesting sites, mere feet from where the seabirds incubate their eggs and where their chicks will inevitably explore. Between the grasses growing in tufts here and there, Black Skimmers and Least Terns have begun to nest on the hot sand. At first glance, it seems an odd place to nest.

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Protection Florida Eggs Hunting 113

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JANUARY 1, 2012

They generally lay four eggs, but we have only seen a maximum of three surviving chicks after a few days. A good indication that they have eggs or young is the extreme noise that they make. They will often fly at both people and other animals in defense of their eggs and young. Masked Lapwing chick hiding in a cow footprint!

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APRIL 13, 2016

That’s what a group of researchers suggest in a paper recently published in Behavioral Ecology. Birds like cuckoos, who lay their eggs in songbirds’ nests, and whose young then off the hosts’ own chicks, tend to avoid cities. Songbirds may congregate in urban areas more than you’d expect.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The “Owls and Albatrosses” chapter, for example, begins with Doug’s personal experiences observing of the nesting strategies of Malleefowl and a Moluccan Megapode, Australasian “chickens who lay their eggs in unusual ways and do not parent. And then we go back to the evolution of clutch size.

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Science Albatross Research Birds 216

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APRIL 23, 2012

Our excitement at finding these avian gems soon turned to amazement as the entire tour group became enraptured by the fascinating behavior that we were fortunate enough to observe. When the female is ready to lay eggs, she will deposit a clutch of eggs in a nest built by each of her males and that is the end of her role in reproduction.

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Sri Lanka Eggs Raised Investigation 189

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

What if, however, you want to nab a group of shorebirds that will scurry or take flight at the merest approach? One scientists posits that harvesting of horseshoe crabs (their eggs are a preferred Red Knot food source) at a crucial refueling stop on the birds’ migration could be part of the problem.

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Science Massachusetts Research Eggs 164

Critter News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Thanks to Mercy for Animals for their undercover work exposing this egg industry practice. This is the second time this year that I've heard of this group capturing headlines. Tags: animal cruelty eggs farm animal welfare factory farm. I'd never heard of them before. I'm very impressed by their courage and tenacity.

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FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Most Acorn Woodpeckers are cooperative breeders and live in family groups of up to a dozen or more individuals. Within a group, 1–7 male co-breeders compete for matings with 1–3 joint-nesting females who lay their eggs in the same nest cavity. This is a photo of a juvenile at my water feature.

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JUNE 16, 2011

But that is because we often have the relationship between dinosaurs and birds reversed in our little primate minds; Much of what is bird-like is not exclusive to birds, but rather, to a larger group of dinosaurs. Facultative (occasional, used when needed) bipedalism occurs in one group of carnivores.

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JUNE 17, 2013

In these situations, the birds have been treated like pests and targeted for extermination, or lost their eggs and nestlings to harvesting of the fields. So the conservation groups are working on ways to provide attractive alternatives. federal level, and a Species of Special Concern in California.

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Blackbirds California Cattle Farming 186

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MAY 7, 2014

According to Wikipedia, birds (class Aves) are feathered, winged, two-legged, warm-blooded, egg-laying vertebrates. The featured image at the top of the post is the same group of nestlings showing one of them begging for food. Most researchers agree that modern-day birds are the only living members of the Dinosauria clade.

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MARCH 24, 2013

They will only breed if the conditions are good and the male will be responsible for nest building and incubating the 6-12 eggs for approximately 60 days. There had been good rains the previous year and as a result of that there were numerous family groups. He will then rear the young Emu for up to 18 months.

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Australia Investigation Family Groups 179

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MARCH 29, 2015

That was the first thing we–our New Jersey Audubon group of 11 birders, led by Scott Barnes–noted as we exited the airport. My cabin was located in a separate area from most of my group, so I didn’t know about the Tinamou till I arrived at the bar for our pre-dinner drink and checklist. There was no snow. And, no snow.

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Honduras Birds Costa Rica Groups 250

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AUGUST 20, 2013

Handing out T-shirts at the registration desk with a summer intern from the Field Museum (one of the conference’s sponsoring groups) gave me a good feel for who was around and what ornithologists are like. Exhibitors ranged from book publishers to purveyors of telemetry equipment to local bird and wildlife groups.

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Critter News

JULY 8, 2011

Animal Welfare Groups Win Industry Backing for First-Ever Federal Regulation of Hen Welfare Groundswell of Public Support Results in Full Court Press for Nationwide Law Protecting Chickens to Replace State-by-State Initiatives WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. A press release I received from the Farm Sanctuary.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

Color-coded page headings denote bird groups, matched by color-coded bird silhouette icons located midway down the edge of the page. Published by Doubleday in 1946, the guide was initially seen by Roger Tory Peterson as competition to his own best-selling field guide, soon to be released in the landmark second revised enlarged edition.

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North America America Birds California Condor 279

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DECEMBER 7, 2011

The female chooses the nest site, builds the nest, lays around 10 eggs over a two week period and incubates them for about a month. I believe these videos are of a group of immature Common Mergansers enjoying the day without their parents INSERT VIDEO 1 HERE INSERT VIDEO 2 HERE What do you think? entrance hole.

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Jordan North America Abandon Abandoning 164

10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2014

The Dry Tortugas National Park is located some 70 miles off of Key West in a small group of keys that makes up the farthest points included in the state of Florida, so it was no surprise that we had a four hour boat ride ahead of us before landing in the park. Banding is best done in teams split into three, potentially four groups.

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Birds Florida Groups Breeding 178

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APRIL 18, 2017

Deep in a walking reverie, I was startled out of my daydream by a group of tiny terns perched at the edge of a sand embankment, looking over at me as I looked at them. It’s mid-April, and soon they will begin laying eggs. There is no mistaking a Least Tern: they were back!

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South America United States Protection Pelicans 102

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2023

The summary of shared family characteristics is an important element of the Accounts, meant to help the user narrow down the baby bird identification to family group. Harrison, and Nests, Eggs, and Nestlings of North American Birds, 2nd ed. These books are concerned with behavior. The identification guide by Paul J.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Birds Family Collecting 258