10,000 Birds

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. This is the opposite of polygamous; the females hold and actively defend territories containing several males with whom they have mating rights.

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Sri Lanka Eggs Raised Investigation 209

10,000 Birds

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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Eggs Raised Breeding Family 165

10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2014

In her free time she travels near and far to find birds to continue building her life list, though many of her favorites can still be found right in her own backyard. As we looked closer, we saw the Sooty Terns nesting right on the ground itself, calling back and forth to each other as they sat on their speckled eggs.

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Birds Florida Groups Breeding 194

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 281

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2013

(Especially happily that the meeting was held at the Palmer House Hilton, right near my office, so that I was able to spend my morning volunteering and still put in a full day at work.). Other hardy souls signed up for an early morning “Ostrich Run” 5k, with the prizes beinging–you guessed it–actual ostrich eggs.

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San Diego Ostriches Chicago Colorado 191

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2012

Right now we’re pretty much a three species town, Ravens with a chance of Hoary Redpolls and a sprinkling of Rock Ptarmigan. (I The peak of this activity is over in about a week, and the birds head upland to nest (for the most part, as some have nested right at the edge of the water. This was a later nest. And it happens quickly.

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South America Eggs Family Raised 166

10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2018

I found this little grouping of Guillemots, with parents, babies and even an egg. The boat Captain got us right in close. What started as a small group of birds, with the hope they would make it on their own, is now a very strong breeding population. When were visiting Smoo cave, this one was right in the cave entrance.

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Puffins Wildlife Reserve 2003 Farming 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2017

Australian Painted Snipe nest with four eggs. Four eggs in the Australian Painted Snipe nest. Two Australian Painted Snipe were on the right and one on the left of the base of the tree with their bills facing the water. Two birds on the right and one on the left-note the bills! Australian Painted Snipe nest.

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Breeding Eggs Raised 2017 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

A small range map is placed in the upper right/left hand corner showing summer, winter, resident, migration, and rare locations. Color-coded page headings denote bird groups, matched by color-coded bird silhouette icons located midway down the edge of the page. Plate 28 from Audubon Bird Guide, Eastern Land Birds, by Richard H.

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North America America Birds California Condor 279

10,000 Birds

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 261

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 24, 2016

Without a doubt, one of the best bits of writing on the split of the two birds, was actually featured right here on this site. These birds have been known to be prolific breeders, with as many as 8 broods a year, and each clutch holding from 5-13 eggs. After I discovered his story, I scrapped mine, as there was nothing left to tell.

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Chile Breeders Asia Mexico 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2019

But, other people like sitting out there too, even groups of photographers, so claim that seat and make sure to sit right in it or someone might just sit there instead, perhaps even an entire family even if you do have gear set out to supposedly claim the table (this nearly happened to me on a recent visit!).

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Costa Rica Cooking Birds Chickens 234

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2022

It stops those thousands of migrating birds flying across the Gulf of Mexico and directs them right onto the trees, fields, sanctuaries, beaches along the Bolivar Peninsula, where they hopefully find food and fresh water. I imagined walking right up to them. High Island in April requires Weather, so I was told. American Avocets.

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Houston Texas Sanctuary Sparrows 241

10,000 Birds

APRIL 30, 2013

While walking along the beach one morning, I noted a fruiting Dagger Cactus right near the beach, at the top was a bird just destroying one of the purple fruits near the top of plant’s formidable crown. There is no doubt about it, this is a striking bird. Just lazy ones.

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Baltimore Broker North America Raised 189

10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2011

Bird poop is, summarized and generalized, the same thing as any other animal group’s poop: the final stage of digestion, the getting rid of the garbage. You may be right in remarking that this is a very poor poo pic, and indeed it is. Or picture yourself as a bird fetus within an egg.

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Mammals Birds Eggs Fish 259

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 12, 2011

Who amongst you, and I want a show of hands here, has never used the clone tool to move objects around in pictures for a more pleasant grouping, or filled out a flock to make it more impressive? A stem of plant material with a cluster of pink Apple Snail’s eggs are marring the picture by covering part of the eye.

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Unwanted Eggs Neglecting Rights 206

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2014

Slang, code, and abbreviations: linguistic shorthand which can make speakers (and writers) incomprehensible to those outside their own group. Maureen Eiger categorizes any unidentifiable featherless nestlings as “ Tufted Puffins ;” to Letitia Labbie, they’re “Eggs With Legs.”. There’s the popular JAR: just ain’t right.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Wildlife Mice Vet 252

10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2012

In responding to Suzie’s post defending wildlife rehabilitation I began to think again about the areas in which animal rights and animal welfare overlap with the field of conservation, and the ways in which they don’t. Animal rights is concerned with preventing the suffering or even use of animals by humans.

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Animal Rights Rights New Zealand Animal 269

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

When we eat eggs we eat chicken eggs almost exclusively. But as of right now there is nowhere in the United States where a birder can see a chicken and count it on his or her list despite the fact that there is a well established and long lasting Feral Chicken population in the Florida Keys.

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Chickens Florida Feral Species 221

Animal Ethics

JULY 12, 2010

A Humane Egg The life of animals raised in confinement on industrial farms is slowly improving, thanks to pressure from consumers, animal rights advocates, farmers and legislators. In California last week, Gov.

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New York Times New York Proposition 2 Veal 40

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2012

Today I’m exploring a couple questions that have been bouncing in my head for a while…I’d love to hear your thoughts…I’m not calling into question animal rights, just the focus of the movement. – The Great Ornithologist Felonious Jive Animal rights. This makes perfect sense.

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Animal Rights Movement Animal Rights Rights Wildlife 230

10,000 Birds

MAY 26, 2024

This time it’s a group of Griffon Vultures Gyps fulvus that have just arrived from the south. The chicks need six months to develop so the adults lay their eggs in January. As I write these lines, it is the screaming of agitated Y ellow -legged Gulls Larus michehellis just outside my window that alerts me to another raptor overhead.

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Africa Morocco Senegal Europe 246

10,000 Birds

JULY 1, 2014

They cut down the trees the parrots used for nesting and brought black rats, who ate their eggs, and honeybees who swarmed into their nests, and by 1937 there were only about 2,000 Puerto Rican Parrots left. The targeted age group is 6 to 11 years. In the lower right-hand corner we see the partial figure of a bespectacled hiker.

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Puerto Rico Parrots New York City 2013 245

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2020

The proprietor of our ecolodge guides my small group of birders up a steep slope where we see, just at the point where a scope view deteriorates into pixels, a huge bird—a Chaco Eagle, also known as a Crowned Eagle—on a huge nest. McWilliam realizes he’s dealing someone special, a career falcon egg-thief. Author Joshua Hammer.

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Falcons United Kingdom Zimbabwe Eggs 240

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2014

Whether the inspiration to this post came from Germany winning the U19 European football championship yesterday right on the heels of our (adult) team winning the world cup (Yes! They were protecting the last three pairs that were left in West Germany from egg thieves! Four stars!!), Short-toed Snake Eagle. Well, okay.

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Eagles Germany Breeding Hunting 173

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Guianan Cock-of-the-rock (left) and Andean Cock-of-the-rock (right) by Adam Riley Redgannet’s choice turned out rather, well, pedestrian: I was bloated with smugness after stalking and managing to get a photograph of what I imagined to be a rare and elusive rallid during a trip to Costanera Sur on an Argentine autumn morning.

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2011 Birds South Korea North Dakota 205

10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2011

Currently she does full time voluntary work for the local Australasian Wader Study Group, which aims to understand and analyze the factors determining shorebird numbers in a rapidly changing world. These do lay eggs on land and are (reasonably) mobile once they hit the beach. Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella.

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Australia 2011 Sharks Deer 156

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

There were three profound questions my birding group discussed while we birded Trinidad and Tobago, back in December 2012: (1) How many Bananaquits could fit on a banana? (2) The bird illustrations in the third edition are brand new, updated by a group of eight artists working under the direction of John P.

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Trinidad Birds South America Research 218

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 2, 2014

There are two-page spreads with a list of birding sites, map coordinates, and bird descriptions on the left and full-page maps on the right, showing roads and routes linking the sites. Species Accounts are grouped by family, following what appears to be Sibley and Monroe’s 1996 taxonomy. (I Back to the field guide!

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Brunei Birds Asia China 186

Animal Ethics

APRIL 16, 2009

The meat and dairy industries want to keep their operations away from the public’s discriminating eyes, but as groups like PETA and the Humane Society have shown us in their graphic and disturbing undercover investigations, factory farms are mechanized madness and slaughterhouses are torture chambers to these unfortunate and feeling beings.

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New York Times New York Proposition 2 Free Range 40

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

If you have any doubts whether you want to see a Snares Penguin, you can read the species description, directly following, and drink in photos of their bright, droopy yellow eyebrows, bulbous dark-red bills with bare pink skin at the base, and peek at a group of the penguins, walking en masse within the thick island scrub.

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Penguins Georgia New Zealand Albatross 279

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 11, 2018

One of our male Pied Oystercatchers has been marked with an engraved leg flag “A1” and was one of the first pairs to lay eggs this season. Sadly the two chicks did not survive very long at all and the pair of Pied Oystercatchers were soon getting ready to lay more eggs. “A1” Preparing another nest site.

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Eggs Feral Cats Feral Raised 116

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 31, 2011

In California, coveys break up and pairs begin forming in February or March, followed by nest building and egg laying in May or June. She will usually lay 12 to 17 eggs, averaging five per week 1 , before beginning incubation. Occasionally, larger clutches occur due to egg dumping by other females. www.youtube.com/watch?

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California Eggs Gophers Rattlesnake 243

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2018

Therefore, humans are fish with feet, right? According to cladists, every organism is a member of any group of organisms that includes it. But they can’t because the first tetrapod that emerged from the fish-with-feet group happen to have four limbs, and all we tetrapods are stuck with that feature. Think about it.

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Monkeys Gorillas Whales Whaling 155

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The consultant also suggested increasing readership by catering to highly specific niche interest groups. eBird states that “small white patch on throat is not obvious and difficult to see” And they use a photo that I submitted as main illustration, so they must be right. I don’t think I will stoop that low.

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Birds China Eggs Owls 223

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2024

Interestingly, only about half of the helpers are related to the breeding pair … … and only the ones not related to the pair gained some parentage, either by sneaking in some sex with the breeding female or by adding an egg. I guess it would not be ok to do this to your own relatives, but with strangers, it is probably ok.

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Birds Indonesia Breeding Charlotte 243

10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2018

The Zoo episode focuses on two Pink Pigeon couples: The Stud and Serendipity, a male and female that the zoo people hope will mate and produce a viable egg, and Thelma and Louise, a same-sex pair-bonded couple who the zoo people hope will incubate the egg and nurture the chick. Because, Ms. On the WCS web page, Ms.

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Mauritius Stud Zoos Eggs 104