10,000 Birds
JUNE 7, 2022
The Eurasian Wryneck is the woodpecker that doesn’t look like a woodpecker, the bird with the portmanteau name that is also a medical condition (and which may remind some people of a Nora Ephron essay). But they are woodpeckers: the genus Jynx of the subfamily Jynginae of the Picidae family.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 6, 2023
Apparently , they use the presence of their own eggs as a cue for recognizing parasitic eggs – so without the presence of their own eggs as a template they fail to recognize a parasitic egg. Some individuals even rejected their own eggs when they were in the minority. I guess people were more flexible then.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 15, 2023
The male Black-throated Bushtits participate in incubation, the somewhat more macho Silver-throated Bushtits do not ( source ), presumably spending more time in pubs while leaving the rather boring job of sitting on a bunch of eggs for days on end to their female partners.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 1, 2016
Lewis’s Woodpecker – Melanerpes lewis. Red-headed Woodpecker – Melanerpes erythrocephalus. Acorn Woodpecker – Melanerpes formicivorus. Golden-naped Woodpecker – Melanerpes chrysauchen. Black-cheeked Woodpecker – Melanerpes pucherani. Downy Woodpecker – Picoides pubescens.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 4, 2016
Big Egg Marsh. US-NY-New York-Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center – 40.6603x-73.9325. Lewis’s Woodpecker – Melanerpes lewis. Red-headed Woodpecker – Melanerpes erythrocephalus. Acorn Woodpecker – Melanerpes formicivorus. Golden-naped Woodpecker – Melanerpes chrysauchen.
10,000 Birds
JULY 2, 2016
Big Egg Marsh. US-NY-New York-Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center – 40.6603x-73.9325. Gila Woodpecker – Melanerpes uropygialis. Ladder-backed Woodpecker – Picoides scalaris. Lewis’s Woodpecker – Melanerpes lewis. Cinnamon Woodpecker – Celeus loricatus. Los Cartagos.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 6, 2016
Lewis’s Woodpecker – Melanerpes lewis. Red-headed Woodpecker – Melanerpes erythrocephalus. Acorn Woodpecker – Melanerpes formicivorus. Golden-naped Woodpecker – Melanerpes chrysauchen. Black-cheeked Woodpecker – Melanerpes pucherani. Downy Woodpecker – Picoides pubescens.
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