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Lady Lays an Egg

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Lady, believed to be the oldest living Osprey in the United Kingdom, has laid her 62nd egg. It is her 22nd year nesting at the Scottish Wildlife Trust’s Loch of the Lowes reserve in Perthshire. Hat-tip to Redgannet.

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Pallid Cuckoo

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All other cuckoos lay their eggs in other birds’ nests and let them raise them. I have also been watching with interest the return of the Cuckoo to the United Kingdom from Africa over the past few days. The Eastern Koel has only been recorded in Broome on very rare occasions.

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The Falcon Thief: A Book Review

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It didn’t occur to me till I started reading The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird that there was also a possible threat to the eagle herself: poachers, who steal raptor eggs and chicks. And, some background on those laws, both in the United Kingdom and the United States.

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Manx Shearwaters

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Its first flight will take it from its burrow, usually on the west coast of the United Kingdom, to the coast of South America, an extraordinary journey for an unaccompanied minor. After mating, a single egg is laid and incubation duties are shared by both parents. While one bird sits, its mate feeds out at sea for a week or so.

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Best Bird of the Year 2012

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2012 has certainly been a bumper year for me with an estimated year list of around 3,000 species after extensive travels to South Africa, Ethiopia, South Korea, Indonesia, the Russian Far East, United Kingdom, Peru, Guatemala and Panama. Red Junglefowl by Mike Bergin Clare Kines chose an egg as his Best Bird of the Year.

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