10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2017

Masked Lapwings have been busy breeding for some months now and some may well be on their second clutch of eggs. The Masked Lapwing is one of the noisiest shorebirds in the north, especially when they are protecting a nest or young. Masked Lapwing protecting a nest. Second Masked Lapwing protecting a nest beside the road.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2014

There is egg predation, chick loss and sometimes possibly just some “bad parenting”! One pair of Pied Oystercatchers laid eggs the first year and did not appear to realise they were supposed to sit on them, but they have since learnt it is an essential part of rearing a chick and they have done so since.

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Eggs Raised Breeding Family 165

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Finally, the Azure-winged Magpie raises a hen-and-egg question: What was first, the color of the bird or the color of the Tibetan prayer flag? In any case, this does not protect the bird from being pestered by its chicks, just like other species with less divine colors. The raptors of Ruoergai deserve a separate post.

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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.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 23, 2008

Thought-provoking article in the Boston Globe.some green thinkers are now coming to a surprising conclusion: In exceptional circumstances, they say, the only effective way to protect the environment may be at the barrel of a gun. In Nicaragua, the army patrols beaches to protect sea turtle eggs.

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Central African Republic Protection Sea Turtles Rhinos 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 8, 2015

Egg loss to predation has been extraordinarily bad this year and all of the nests mentioned in the last post were lost and all of the pairs of Pied Oystercatchers laid a new clutch of eggs. In fact they have not just laid once again, but many pairs have laid up to five clutches of eggs this season.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

The first eggs were laid in the first week of July, which is the case each year. The eggs take 28 days to hatch and it is then at least 35 days before the chicks are developed enough to fly and there have been problems with predation as in other years. Pied Oystercatcher sitting on eggs in the nudist area of Cable Beach.

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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.

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New Jersey United States Legislature Iowa 150

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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.

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Eggs Family 2006 New York 263

10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2016

The dense prickly cactus aids in protection of the nest, making it very difficult to see in, let alone try to enter. The nest is lined with grass, leaves and feathers, and will have up to four blue-green eggs with red spots. The entry to the nest is on the low side, or at the bottom, where they fly up into the covered nest.

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Eggs Raised Protection Family 104

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2022

Fortunately, as I found out over the next four days, High Island, the Bolivar Peninsula, the whole east Texan Gulf coast area is a place of diverse habitats, some protected, some accidental, all offering fantastic avian opportunities. Corps of Engineers to protect Galveston Bay at the end of the 19th-century.

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Houston Texas Sanctuary Sparrows 210

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 12, 2012

After 28 days of sharing the duty of sitting on three eggs we finally had the arrival of our first Pied Oystercatcher chicks for 2012 on Friday August 3rd. It is unusual for three eggs to be laid here in Broome and many eggs do not even hatch due to predation each season.

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Eggs Dogs Shelters Family 176

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2012

As a Northeast birder I am familiar with the alarming decrease in the number of Red Knots along Atlantic shores and have signed petitions and written e-mails calling for legislation and rules that will limit the overharvesting of the horseshoe crab, whose eggs Red Knots depend on. million in the late 1990’s. Should the gulls be controlled?

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Delaware New Jersey Research Eggs 179

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.”

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North America America Barn Owls Falcons 213

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2022

Wikipedia also has an interesting paragraph hinting at observation bias in ornithologists: “At the continental scale, saddle-billed storks preferred protected areas that have a higher extent of open water compared to areas without the storks. Studies on improving ostrich egg hatchability. Ostriches originated in Asia.

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Ostriches Parrots Birds Eggs 147

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 18, 2006

I buy pasture-raised meat, milk and eggs from local farmers who I know personally, because the animals are healthier than industrially raised animals, and I find that the quality is better. I hope everyone who prefers local and pasture-raised animals will speak up and protect the source of their food and health.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Another advantage to ballistic food transport is that the fruit seeds are protected from damage when they are swallowed whole. The entire seed passes through the gastrointestinal tract and is excreted intact, increasing its chances of germination and forming a new plant.”

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Rhinoceros Singapore Transported Hunting 126

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 11, 2018

One of our male Pied Oystercatchers has been marked with an engraved leg flag “A1” and was one of the first pairs to lay eggs this season. Sadly the two chicks did not survive very long at all and the pair of Pied Oystercatchers were soon getting ready to lay more eggs. “A1” Preparing another nest site.

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Eggs Feral Cats Feral Raised 108

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Male Phalaropes, Jacanas, Tinamous, and Rheas build nests, incubate the eggs and take care of the chicks. Females then begin to lay eggs in the nest the male prepared. If too many females join a harem and lay eggs in a single nest, the male will not be able to incubate all the eggs properly. Photo: Liam Quinn.

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Eggs South America Raised America 153

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 19, 2012

Both Elk and songbirds have the same basic method of inseminating eggs, which is one of the steps in reproduction (but not by any means the first!), Songbirds grow the offspring internally for only a very short while, and then pop out an egg, which is then cared for over a significant period of time until it hatches.

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Mammals Eggs Abandon Abandoning 164

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

I once knew a guy who kept and raised cats. It is probably true that there is a near 100% overlap in the rodents and other small terrestrial animals, as well as ground bird eggs, eaten by Coyotes and feral Cats. But they don’t live in North America. Unless we put them there. Have you ever seen the Dryfus Lion? That was one of his cats.

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Feral Cats North America Feral Cats 255

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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2014 Killing Michigan Kentucky 160

10,000 Birds

JULY 12, 2020

It protects nesting shorebirds year round. It also protects nesting turtles, which nest later in the year. The vehicle access is closed around the biggest high tides when the turtles are nesting to protect them and their nest sites. Another pair of Pied Oystercatchers closer to Gantheaume Point have laid their eggs.

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Eggs Turtles Protection 2014 153

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 29, 2006

In recent years, the prevalence of disease-causing bacteria in meat, poultry, and eggs has risen sharply, which is why health authorities insist that these products be carefully handled and thoroughly cooked, if they are used at all. There is no need for infants to be raised on cow's milk formulas. But what about prior to two years?

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Animal Meat Cows District of Columbia 40

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

Foxes have also been known to take their eggs and there are now numerous local groups who endeavour to help the populations of Hooded Plovers along their local coastlines. In order to raise our awareness, to remind us of what we have lost, and to inspire us to fight for Every. Handbook to The Birds of Australia, 1865.

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