10,000 Birds
JUNE 4, 2015
Generally the more exposed the egg are, the more hidden or camouflaged the nest should be. Giant Hummingbirds build cup-shaped nests where eggs are exposed, but rather than hiding or camouflaging the nest, the biggest of all hummers generally places its nest in cacti. Nest predation is the driving force of nest site selection by bird.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 24, 2022
While I write this, the vessel is on a trip from Shekou, China to Callao, Peru, presumably to pick up some ore, most likely copper ore. I knew you would be excited to learn about this. ” I am not sure I like this idea much, though.
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 8, 2015
The Peruvian Pelican is restricted to the cold water of the Humboldt Current along the coast of Peru and Chile. The two overlap in the northern coast of Peru, which constitutes the Brown Pelican’s southern most point in its regular wintering ground along the Pacific. Both are the only Pelican in their non-overlapping breeding grounds.
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
SEPTEMBER 15, 2011
They have special adaptations to stay warm and to keep their eggs and chicks warm. Fossils of a giant extinct penguin, Inkayacu paracasensis were found a while back in Peru. Penguins are flightless, but some species locomote over long distances on antarctic ice to travel between breeding grounds and the sea. Salas-Gismondi, R.,
10,000 Birds
MARCH 13, 2011
Speaking of pregnant snakes, do sea snakes lay their eggs ashore like sea turtles or do they keep them internally until the young are ready to hatch/ be born, like some sharks? These do lay eggs on land and are (reasonably) mobile once they hit the beach. It seems like there is great diversity in this continent.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 7, 2011
This happened to me recently on a birding trip, with somewhat egg-on-the-face results. I was on a birding quest trip with my friend Geoff Heeter. We were driving up to northwestern Michigan from our homes in Ohio (me) and West ByGod Virginia (Geoff) in search of a bird species that would be a lifer for both of us: the Bohemian Waxwing.
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