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The Beautiful and Colorful Mourning Dove

10,000 Birds

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.

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Starlings and Eagles

10,000 Birds

To gather vital information that could make the difference between a thriving Golden Eagle population and a declining one. They made scrambled eggs for the bait birds each morning and fed them special premium mealworms to help them ward off the cold of the mountain and the stress of their daily grid. To understand, and thus to protect.

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