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Eagles4kids is a student-teacher run interactive online resource on bald eagles, featuring two live video streams of eagle mating pairs and their nests.The website is a classroom project for a third and fourth grade combined classroom from Blair-Taylor Elementary School in Blair, Wisconsin.
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 ...
In 9 studies of annual nest spacing, the average minimum distance between nests range from 16 km (9.9 mi) apart in Norway to 8 km (5.0 mi) apart in Switzerland. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Nests in Scotland may found at anywhere from 10 to 65 pairs per 1,000 km 2 (390 sq mi), with an average of over 20 pairs found per area.
Scientists can use fecal sacs to learn a number of things about individual birds. Examination of the contents of the sac can reveal details of the nestling's diet, [14] [15] and can indicate what contaminants the young bird has been exposed to. [16] The presence of an adult bird carrying a fecal sac is used in bird censuses as an indication of ...
Goose egg addling is a wildlife management method of population control for Canada geese and other bird species. The process of addling involves temporarily removing fertilized eggs from the nest, testing for embryo development, killing the embryo, and placing the egg back in the nest. Returning the egg to the nest misleads the goose into ...
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Indigo bunting nests are vulnerable to a variety of climbing and flying predators, including Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana), red fox (Vulpes vulpes), domestic cat (Felis catus), blue jay (Cyanocitta cristata), eastern racer (Coluber constrictor) and raccoon (Procyon lotor). [22] The bird is also susceptible to parasitism by louse flies ...
All the birds came to the magpie, because it was the wisest, and asked it to teach them how to build nests. The magpie started to demonstrate, but each time she did something, another bird concluded that was all there was to it. By the time she was done, only the turtle-dove was left, and it had been paying no attention, but singing "Take two ...