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For most birds of prey, females are the largest, much is the same with eagles. Females can weigh 25% more than their male mates. Since both sexes have the same colouration unlike other birds and ducks, a good way to tell them apart is their size. They believe being larger as a female makes it easier for them to protect their young, seeing as they spend the most times incubating eggs, though the males do help.
Pattern: Nesting Dolls designed by Katie Startzman
Pattern Source: Available for purchase from Katie's Ravelry Pattern Store
Yarn: Various colors and amounts of Cascade 220 and Patons Classic Merino
Needles: US10.5 and US13 Clover Bamboo DPNs
Date Started: 1/25/2011
Date Finished: 1/30/2011
Modifications: Instead of embroidered patches, added bowties from wool felt
This pattern is really well written--and not to mention totally adorable! These guys are going to be for Serena for her first birthday next week. I think she will love how colorful they are!
This was taken at a considerable distance to avoid disturbance of the nesting birds. This is always important, as any disturbance could lead to abandonment and unnecessary stress.
We are two months into the breeding season at Wakodahatchee Wetlands, with several gbh nests already complete and a few still being built. This is "phase one" and we would hope that in a another month or so when the chicks have arrived that construction will begin again.
ODC - NEST or NESTING is the topic for Monday 16th September 2019
These nesting baskets come from Tanzania, the largest is only 2 inches high and 3 inches across, they are handmade using wire and small beads. My son-in-law was stationed there and brought back some really neat stuff.
Eastern kingbirds will often nest in dead trees over water. This habitat provides plenty of flying insects to feast on, while also isolating the nest from mammal predators.
Photo by Courtney Celley/USFWS.
White storks in Uznach, Switzerland
Nikon F4 with Nikkor 70-300mm
Kodak Tri-x in Adonal 1:50 (13 min @ 20 degrees).
Scan on Epson V700.
© Henri Nidegger
Lotherton Hall near Leeds, Egret's make a rudimentary nest of twigs and grasses high in trees out of the way of predators.
In summer the Farne Islands off the northeast coast of England are visited by vast colonies of nesting guillemots.
The bee-eaters are a group of birds in the family Meropidae, containing three genera and thirty species. Most species are found in Africa and Asia, with a few in southern Europe, Australia, and New Guinea. They are characterised by richly coloured plumage, slender bodies, and usually elongated central tail feathers. All have long down-turned bills and medium to long wings, which may be pointed or round. Male and female plumages are usually similar.
As their name suggests, bee-eaters predominantly eat flying insects, especially bees and wasps, which are caught on the wing from an open perch. The insect's stinger is removed by repeatedly hitting and rubbing the insect on a hard surface. During this process, pressure is applied to the insect's body, thereby discharging most of the venom.
Most bee-eaters are gregarious. They form colonies, nesting in burrows tunnelled into vertical sandy banks, often at the side of a river or in flat ground. As they mostly live in colonies, large numbers of nest holes may be seen together. The eggs are white, with typically five to the clutch. Most species are monogamous, and both parents care for their young, sometimes with assistance from related birds in the colony.
Bee-eaters may be killed by raptors; their nests are raided by rodents, weasels, martens and snakes, and they can carry various parasites. Some species are adversely affected by human activity or habitat loss, but none meet the International Union for Conservation of Nature's vulnerability criteria, and all are therefore evaluated as "least concern". Their conspicuous appearance means that they have been mentioned by ancient writers and incorporated into mythology.