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The Most Perfect Thing: Inside (and Outside) a Bird’s Egg

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Tim Birkhead, a respected ornithologist with years of research under his belt, doesn’t quite achieve perfection with this book on the totality of that strange entity, the bird’s egg, but he makes a valiant effort of it and comes away with a very interesting book indeed.

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A Red-capped Plover nest

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The female Red-capped Plover immediately returned to the nest to incubate her eggs. The male Red-capped Plover was nearby and they generally incubate the eggs at night. Red-capped Plovers usually lay two very small eggs and they also need incubating for around twenty eight days similar to the Pied Oystercatchers.

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Power Companies and Springtime Tree Removal

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But there are ways to prevent this situation, and to prevent the constant springtime problem of wildlife being orphaned… like these Barred Owls , above left, and Red-Shouldered Hawks , all of whom were delivered as eggs to Christine’s Critters in Weston, CT, thanks to two different private homeowners’ felling of trees. Ah, Europe!

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How To (And Not To) Transport Wild Birds

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Normally I rant about environmental dangers and describe heartwarming/mind-boggling/headscratching wild bird rescues. ” When it comes to wildlife rescue, transportation runs the gamut as well. “Apparently she found a fallen American Robin ‘s egg,” she wrote, “and kept it in there for two weeks!

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I need help, my idiot parents found a baby bird.

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I did the quickest research I can to take care of it until we can get to a rescue in the morning, I need some advice on what to do. For feeding, does a crushed up solution of meal worms, blood worms / earth worms, eggs, and oatmeal sound okay? And also because my said idiot parents dont know what theyre doing.

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Osprey Cam

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There are many stories at Dunrovin – rescued horses, challenging dogs, miniature donkeys with flamboyant personalities – but two of the stars are a pair of Osprey s dubbed Ozzie and Harriet. Recently I started working with Dunrovin Ranch, a local guest ranch, on their web project Days at Dunrovin.

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A September shoreline

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All of the pairs that we monitor have lost either their eggs or juvenile birds to predation before they were fledged and are patiently sitting once again on a new clutch of eggs. I could rescue them all if there were not so many! It doesn’t take long and they are dried discs left to blow in the wind.

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