Eggs North America Protection Raised 
10,000 Birds
JULY 18, 2012
Wood Duck ( Aix sponsa ) Female Incubating Eggs in a Nest Box “Many species of cavity-nesting birds have declined because of habitat reduction. The wood duck was very scarce in many portions of its range, at least in part, for the same reason and probably owes its present status to provision of nest boxes and protection from overhunting 1.”
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 18, 2014
One of the two sub-species of Red Knot occurring in North America, the Rufa subspecies breeds in the Canadian Artic Region and migrates along the east or Atlantic coast of the United States. In both cases, knots, which feed on the crabs’ eggs, can miss their peak refueling opportunity. Birds in Delaware Bay.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 1, 2015
Mentioning New Jersey often raises a snicker or a run down of all the drama and negative stereotypes that swirl around the Garden State, most of which are typified by the MTV hit show, “Jersey Shore.” In fact, it is their reliance on seeds that actually protects them against Brown-headed Cowbirds , the famous parasitic nesters.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
They may be about bird eggs ( The Most Perfect Thing: The Inside (and Outside) of a Bird’s Egg , 2016), or a 17th-century ornithologist ( Virtuoso by Nature: The Scientific Worlds of Francis Willughby, 2016), or How Bullfinches learn songs from humans ( The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 2, 2015
And of eggs and nests and birds on nests. Into the Nest , as the title says, is about the courting, mating, egg-laying, nesting, and parenting behavior of “familiar birds”. Cedar Waxwings exchange berries, carry nesting material, eggs. Egg biology, from Part I. Oops, the curmudgeon in me slipped.) Peregrine Falcon nests.
10,000 Birds
JULY 22, 2014
But they don’t live in North America. I once knew a guy who kept and raised cats. I find it astonishing that people argue of whether feral cats are bad for birds in North America. In North America, you’ve got Bears at the large end, Cats in the middle, and at the smaller end, the Mustilids.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
Written by Mark Avery, Conservation Director for the RSPB (Royal Society for the Protection of Birds) for nearly 13 years, this book explores the reasons for the extinction of the Passenger Pigeon from the point of view of the outsider. How many eggs did a pigeon lay? Or the absence of legal protection.
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