10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2021

But there are ways to prevent this situation, and to prevent the constant springtime problem of wildlife being orphaned… like these Barred Owls , above left, and Red-Shouldered Hawks , all of whom were delivered as eggs to Christine’s Critters in Weston, CT, thanks to two different private homeowners’ felling of trees.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Wildlife Game Laws 264

Critter News

JUNE 28, 2009

Nearly 95 percent of the 90 billion table eggs produced in the United States come from high-density cage systems. The value of all egg production in 2007 was $6.68 In South Carolina egg sales tally about $90 million annually. Tags: battery hens eggs USDA farm animal welfare us agribusiness.

Hens Eggs 100

Hens Eggs Investigation Animal Welfare South Carolina 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 20, 2019

I am deducing that there may be eggs in the nest. The male seemed keen to be away from the hole, popping his head out to investigate any noise in the hope that the female might have returned to relieve him of this tiresome shift. Perhaps he might have spruced the place up a bit.

Woodpeckers 114

Woodpeckers Investigation Eggs Ducks 114

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2012

Feral cats are a huge problem in Australia and they do take a lot of the eggs. There are four pairs with eggs currently after the first pair lost their eggs, which they laid in the same location as last year. This pair laid a white egg last year on their second attempt in the exact same nest.

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Eggs Turtles Feral Cats Investigation 175

10,000 Birds

MAY 2, 2021

Goanna investigating the drop-off. We moved in slowly and soon observed that there was a well camouflaged nest with one egg in it. Black-fronted Dotterel nest with one egg. A goanna wandered into our camp area trying to get to the river for a drink no doubt. It soon realised there was a significant drop-off and wandered off.

Eagles 150

Eagles Falcons Eggs Zebras 150

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2017

They emerged from their bloody rampage leaving fifteen adults dead, and fifteen destroyed nests with either smashed or missing eggs. There are eggs that are not viable, nestlings who fail to thrive, natural predators who snatch a chick for a meal, freak storms that blow through and destroy part of a population.

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Albatross Honolulu Hawaii Killing 214

10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2019

Today, we know a little more, such as the fact that an eagle couple produces one egg every two years, but numbers remain low, too low. And, he tells us about the time he was attacked by a parent Philippine Eagle as he handled an egg at the nest, hundreds of feet above the ground. It’s a future that seems fragile.

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Eagles Philippines Eggs Birds 203

10,000 Birds

APRIL 23, 2012

A bright flash of white caught my attention in this lilly-choked wetland Closer investigation revealed a stunning male Pheasant-tailed Jacana perched atop a female. 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.

Sri Lanka 184

Sri Lanka Eggs Raised Investigation 184

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

Last weekend we went by vehicle to check on the Pied Oystercatchers that breed along that stretch of beach and there has been continued egg loss over the past few weeks. They are persistent at laying eggs and despite the loss of all the eggs from our last visit there were five new eggs. Pied Oystercatcher shading an egg.

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Eggs Birds Investigation Bears 140

10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2024

In Grey-backed Shrikes (at least those breeding on the Tibetan plateau), the eggs laid during one breeding attempt get larger with time – presumably an attempt to at least partly overcome the disadvantages the last chick faces ( source ). I lowered the volume and after a while they got used to it and slowly went back to sleep.”

Burma 183

Burma Birds Vietnam Laos 183

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 28, 2014

Among birds the Egyptian Vulture uses rocks to crack Ostrich eggs, the New Caledonian Crow and Woodpecker Finch (one of several Darwin Finches of the Galapagos Islands), uses sticks to extract grubs from inside a branch. Egyptian Vultures raised is isolation used rocks to crack eggs presented to them. The behavior was inherent.

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Fish Woodpeckers Ostriches Eggs 163

Critter News

JUNE 10, 2011

In the decree the Spanish Government outlines a training and publicity initiatives to promote new methods of production to farmers and the public as well as a timeline to receive and investigate plans for conversion as well as committing €300m in loans for farmers to convert to enriched facilities.

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Spain Animal Welfare Welfare Egg Industry 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2018

Mechanisation (ploughing and harvesting in particular), chemical fertilisers and pesticides, fire and predation all contribute to high mortality of eggs, chicks, juveniles and incubating females. In the last year, a broken bustard eggshell was found, but since no displaying was observed, those could have been unfertilized eggs.

Hungary 140

Hungary Serbia Austria Eggs 140

Critter News

JULY 8, 2011

history, the United Egg Producers (UEP) has agreed to support national legislation that will, upon enactment, improve the welfare of all laying hens in the nation. July 8, 2011 – In a groundbreaking move that should result in the greatest advancement for farmed animals in U.S.

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Welfare Farm Sanctuary Battery Cages Factory Farm 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 24, 2013

They are also inquisitive, so if you observe some near the edge of the road and you want to gain their attention you can turn on your car indicators and they will often investigate rather than run off. They are nomadic and roam looking for food, which is predominately vegetation and therefore they distribute seeds as they roam.

Australia 178

Australia Investigation Family Groups 178

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 9, 2023

The Bar-backed Partridge was also one of four focal species in an investigation into illegal bird hunting in Southwestern China. Another, somewhat more interesting study suggests that nest sanitation (ornithologists speak for cleaning up your room) helps Common Tailorbirds to recognize and eject parasitic eggs.

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China Hunting Birds illegal 147

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Even to the author of the paper, who cautiously adds that “nest architecture is unlikely to be irrelevant to females, and its role deserves further investigation” (if swear words were allowed on 10,000 Birds, I would say that he is trying to cover his ass).

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Sri Lanka Birds Taiwan Cats 205

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Of course, the paper ends with the usual thinly disguised request for more research grants: “This sharing behavior could indicate a high level of social awareness and prosociality that should be further investigated. Maybe the parrotbills just need to adapt and put their nests in trees. Isn’t that what evolution is all about?

Finland 147

Finland Birds 2016 McDonalds 147

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 2, 2022

One of Whittaker’s first experiments was to place other birds’ preen oil on the nests and eggs of Dark-eyed Juncos. Hoopoes do come up in the chapter on bacteria–Whittaker cites a series of “important” research studies out of Spain that she and co-investigator Kevin Theis find insightful and inspiring.

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Science Research Birds Turkey 213

10,000 Birds

APRIL 11, 2013

Peripatetic ornithologist Nick Sly has long been a friend of the blog here and has contributed such classics as Green-rumped Parrotlets from Egg to Adult and Forpus passerinus and the Ornithologists of Masaguaral. What are the mechanisms by which this occurs? And what cues do they use to do so? A junco thermoregulating in a snow bank.

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Panama Research Investigation Chickens 203

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2016

Of course, that certainly piqued my interest, so I closed the store immediately and went to investigate. Once the nest was done, she began sitting on it, preparing to lay her eggs. Mom on nest. Sure enough, the little female Costa’s hummingbird had begun to assemble her nest.

San Diego 166

San Diego Seattle Eggs California 166

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2013

Other hardy souls signed up for an early morning “Ostrich Run” 5k, with the prizes beinging–you guessed it–actual ostrich eggs. Emptied of their contents, of course.). A few days later, I was the assistant (a glorified gofer , if you will) for a morning-long session on migration.

San Diego 173

San Diego Ostriches Chicago Colorado 173

10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2011

I noticed a silhouette and we investigated and we got our first Pallid Cuckoo for the year. We discovered another juvenile not far away, so other species have had their eggs swapped out. They tend to use Honeyeater or Magpie-lark nests.

Australia 150

Australia Investigation Falcons Eggs 150

10,000 Birds

APRIL 17, 2012

July 24, 2010 BP brazenly says an internal investigation has cleared the company of all gross negligence in the spill. The babies that hatched from these eggs were released on Florida’s east coast. July 6, 2010 Oil enters Lake Pontchartrain, a massive estuary in Louisiana, potentially threatening a thriving and diverse ecosystem.

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2010 Louisiana 2012 2011 228

Critter News

APRIL 1, 2009

There is an abundance of information on the web about undercover investigations, livestock conditions, slaughter procedures, etc. And if you ever drive around an egg farm, hog farm, slaughterhouse, feeding lot, etc., Undercover investigative pieces have shown that some unhinged workers take out their frustrations on the farm animals.

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Farm Animal Farmed Animals Farming Factory Farm 100

Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 13, 2008

This modest proposal would bring a smidgen of comfort to millions of hens used for egg production. Recent investigations by nonprofit groups in California, Ohio and Pennsylvania have revealed the atrocious living conditions of egg-laying hens, though their owners said they were humanely cared for. Karen Davis Machipongo, Va.,

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New York Times Proposition 2 New York Egg Industry 40

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.

New York Times 40

New York Times New York Proposition 2 Free Range 40

Animal Person

AUGUST 16, 2011

In a manner that’s Malcolm Gladwell meets Freakonomics, which is the fascinating part, Herzog investigates our beliefs and actions regarding nonhuman animals (anthrozoology). The answer, throughout the entire 300 pages, essentially is: Because they do. People believe one thing and do another. All day long.

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Vegan Morals Animal Rights Advocacy 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2012

A nest wasn’t found until 1903, which set off a craze for Kirtland’s Warbler skins, nests, and eggs. Baird, who took it to his home base, the Smithsonian, and wrote it up, dedicating to the bird to Dr. Kirtland. Rapai also accompanies an experienced volunteer on the annual Kirtland’s Warbler Census.

Michigan 223

Michigan Bahamas Endangered Species Research 223

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Often, as I have been investigating the contents of a nest by making a small hole in the side, the parent birds have come right to the nest, where they immediately begin to repair the damage even before my departure!”. Even during the breeding season the birds appear to be quite unwary of humans.

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Trinidad Birds South America Research 190