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A Pied Oystercatcher family

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Well, basically it is a good area for putting a nest as there is ample food nearby and the dunes offer protection and good views of incoming predators. Why would Pied Oystercatchers been keen to use an area with all this activity? Now it just needs to get the strength and feather production complete on its wings and it can fly from danger.

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Birding Dilemma No.23 – Taking family for granted.

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She happens to live in the middle of the New Forest, 94,000 acres of heath and woodland, protected as a National Park and probably the UK’s best area in which to find Dartford Warbler. Feeling (only slightly) guilty that I had dashed out so quickly, I took the first brief sighting as my tick and got back to the families.

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Protecting the Hyacinth Macaw and the Cerrado

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The Hyacinth Macaw is more than just another pretty face; these birds are social with strong family values. The Hyacinth Macaw doesn’t start a family until it is seven years old. You might also want to see how the World Parrot Trust works to protect parrots in the wild. Say it ain’t so, Toucan Sam!

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Pied Oystercatcher eggs become chicks

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By Friday morning the family of Pied Oystercatchers had moved a little to the south to an area with more vegetation, but equally far from the ocean. Pied Oystercatcher family. We are more than happy to observe them get to this stage of development and hope that their parents can protect them until they are fully fledged.

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Thirteen years of weekly posts

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This rocky area high up beyond the beach sand offers great camouflage and protection. They will do it for other threats as a distraction to protect their eggs or chicks. They can be two or three kilometres away, but if the nest-sitter calls the other one will soon arrive to help protect. One large Pied Oystercatcher family !

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Pied Oystercatchers second attempt at breeding

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Sadly the family of Pied Oystercatchers that I introduced you to a couple of weeks ago have lost their chicks and we are hopeful they may attempt to breed again, but it is also getting late in the season. The male of this pair of Pied Oystercatchers always appears to take on more of the protecting duties, but we also know he is an old bird.

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The Cherokee National Forest just got bigger!

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It’s still possible (amidst the scurry to take from public lands) to protect our pristine wilderness areas. Through multi-partnerships, cooperation, federal funding, and the private conservation efforts of one family, 616 acres were officially added to the Cherokee National Forest in September 2018. appeared first on 10,000 Birds.