Eggs Hunters North America Research 
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 9, 2015
The nickel was placed in the nest for the photo to show me the size of the egg for identification purposes, then removed. Even though the female lays only two eggs per nest attempt, they enjoy a protracted breeding season in which multiple nesting attempts can occur every 30 days, and in Southern locations, nearly year round.
10,000 Birds
JULY 22, 2014
The majority of wildcats live today in Africa, and virtually none of them have provided the DNA from which supposed histories of domestication have been constructed by researchers. But they don’t live in North America. I find it astonishing that people argue of whether feral cats are bad for birds in North America.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2013
For birders, it’s the extremely large book, shelved in a place where it can’t crush the field guides, used to research the history of a bird in their area. Corey did just this in this 2011 posting about Vesper Sparrow Pooecetes gramineus in New York State.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
Still, I can’t help thinking that there is some parallel between the mass slaughter of the Passenger Pigeon in 19th-century North America and the mass slaughter of songbirds in southern European countries today. How many eggs did a pigeon lay? This is not that kind of book, as Fuller makes clear from the beginning.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 4, 2012
They breed in dense colonies, incubate their single egg on the feet, and take more than a year to fledge a chick. Howell’s Petrels, Albatrosses, and Storm-Petrels of North America: A Photographic Guide, previously reviewed here. Southern Elephant Seals and Weddell Seals are also resident, though not in such large numbers.
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