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  2. Little egret - Wikipedia

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    [4] [5] The genus name comes from the Provençal French Aigrette, "egret", a diminutive of Aigron, "heron". The species epithet garzetta is from the Italian name for this bird, garzetta or sgarzetta. [6] Two subspecies are recognised: [5] E. g. garzetta (Linnaeus, 1766) – nominate, found in Europe, Africa, and most of Asia except the south-east

  3. Glossary of bird terms - Wikipedia

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    Once it has breached the egg's surface, the chick continues to chip at it until it has made a large hole. The weakened egg eventually shatters under the pressure of the bird's movements. [183] The egg tooth is so critical to a successful escape from the egg that chicks of most species will perish unhatched if they fail to develop one. [180]

  4. Green heron - Wikipedia

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    The clutch is usually 2–6 pale green eggs, [5] which are laid in two-day intervals (though the second egg may be laid up to six days later than the first). [15] After the last egg has been laid, both parents incubate for about 19–21 days until hatching, and feed the young birds. [16] The frequency of feedings decreases as the offspring near ...

  5. Bird nest - Wikipedia

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    Deep cup nest of the great reed-warbler. A bird nest is the spot in which a bird lays and incubates its eggs and raises its young. Although the term popularly refers to a specific structure made by the bird itself—such as the grassy cup nest of the American robin or Eurasian blackbird, or the elaborately woven hanging nest of the Montezuma oropendola or the village weaver—that is too ...

  6. Bird netting - Wikipedia

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    Bird netting or anti-bird netting is a form of bird pest control. It is a net used to prevent birds from reaching certain areas. Bird protection netting comes in a variety of shapes and forms, The most common is a small mesh (1 or 2 cm squares) either extruded and bi-oriented polypropylene or woven polyethylene.

  7. Mist net - Wikipedia

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    Mist nets are nets used to capture wild birds and bats. They are used by hunters and poachers to catch and kill animals, but also by ornithologists and chiropterologists for banding and other research projects. Mist nets are typically made of nylon or polyester mesh suspended between two poles, resembling a volleyball net. When properly ...

  8. Bird trapping - Wikipedia

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    A bird flies into the nearly invisible net and falls to a fold at the bottom of the net where it usually gets entangled. These nets are used especially in bird ringing and are typically never left unsupervised. A bird that falls is quickly removed to avoid injury to the bird and to prevent it from falling prey to predators.

  9. Dunnock - Wikipedia

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    A robin-sized bird, the dunnock typically measures 13–14.5 cm (5.1–5.7 in) in length. It has a brown back streaked blackish, somewhat resembling a small house sparrow. Like that species, the dunnock has a drab appearance which may have evolved as camouflage to avoid predation. It is brownish underneath, and has a fine pointed bill.

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