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It’s Time to Clean Out Your Nest Boxes

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First and foremost, with regular, frequent visits to each nestbox, you may be able to spot problems threatening your tenants. If you don’t kill the adult wasp, she will soon return and rebuild. There are three prime objectives for monitoring nestboxes. Birds won’t use a box with wasps inside.

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Birding Shanghai in May 2023 – Part 2

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The Large-billed Crow ( video ) is one of the natural enemies – in the study above, it predated 19 eggs from four pitta nests. Different from many other parasitic cuckoos, the chick typically does not kill all its nest mates, though one or two of them may die from starvation. But at least for this season, the chicks should be ok.

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