10,000 Birds

JUNE 8, 2023

The Large-billed Crow ( video ) is one of the natural enemies – in the study above, it predated 19 eggs from four pitta nests. Unfortunately, the house this nest is built on is about to be destroyed – no tenant rights for birds in China, I am afraid. Is it worth a scientific paper if a Large-billed Crow eats a fish?

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 13, 2018

First and foremost, with regular, frequent visits to each nestbox, you may be able to spot problems threatening your tenants. You can see the two distinct flattened nests stacked on top of each other bringing any new nesting attempt closer to the entrance hole and therefore easier for a predator to reach eggs or nestlings.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2015

From the 1913 USDA Farmers Bulletin #513, Fifty Common Birds of Farm and Orchard: “The bluebird is one of the most familiar tenants of the farm and dooryard. Every spring I look forward to monitoring my bluebird trails when I not only get to watch Western Bluebirds develop from eggs to fledglings, but other cavity nesters as well.

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