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| Motherless eggs in nest | 6/1/2009 |
Q: A bird has made a nest in our newspaper box, and there are 5 blue eggs in it. Today I found a dead ...
A: The only birds that I know that may brood un-related eggs are those which are either tricked into it ...
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| Fledging? | 5/28/2009 |
Q: A few weeks ago, I noticed a nest in a fern, then eggs, then baby birds (small). The birds have been ...
A: Birds normally can't lay several eggs at the same time, so there is usually also a difference in ...
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| Eastern Bluebirds | 5/15/2009 |
Q: I have been feeding birds for several years and have a birdhouse for the Eastern Bluebirds. They ...
A: I don't exactly know what the size difference between the two is, but if the bluebird is smaller ...
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| Robin's Nest | 5/11/2009 |
Q: I recently discovered a Robin's nest on one of my fences under the eave of my house. The first time ...
A: Dave, I think you should stop disturbing the nest and hope for the best. It is possible that the ...
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| Bird Nest on Porch | 5/10/2009 |
Q: The same birds are building nests on my porch year after year. I cannot destroy the nest and scare ...
A: These are almost unequivocally swallows. Swallows are considered very beneficial birds, because ...
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| robin nesting | 5/8/2009 |
Q: I have some robins "taking over" my deck. I am assuming that they are thinking of building their ...
A: Well, the only practical way is to not alter your activities, so they´ll always feel harassed on the ...
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| what kind of bird is this? | 5/5/2009 |
Q: I snapped a picture of what my mom thought was a wood stork, but its beak is bent like an ibis... I ...
A: Ok, this one made me go back to the field guides. It turns out that both the white and the scarlet ...
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| Goose Eggs | 4/24/2009 |
Q: I purchased Pilgrim goose eggs to hatch in my incubator. During the past few weeks the power has ...
A: Bird rearing is totally out of my expertise, buy you can not close the egg back. I think you should ...
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| birds | 10/15/2008 |
Q: Why does it seem like birds roosting on power lines face the same way?
A: I really wouldn't know, but I assume it's one of the following: - The birds land in the same ...
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| dead baby bird | 7/28/2008 |
Q: I found a dead baby cardinal (crashed into my window) ouch! It tears me up inside. We picked it up ...
A: They don't mourn per se. Mourning is something that has only been demonstrated (or inferred) for ...
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| Babies possibly in distress | 7/5/2008 |
Q: Today is Saturday at 3:00 p.m. Early Thursday evening I went out to watch the "feeding" of the baby ...
A: I guess my answer could be arriving too late, but in these cases the fate of the birds is ...
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| Behavior while Robins Nest | 7/2/2008 |
Q: I looked outside my side door of my home and right next to my door on the light fixture, the Robins ...
A: It is possible that they would have eventually given up on the nesting site if constant people ...
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| re cardinal | 6/10/2008 |
Q: We have a problem every morning about am. Red cardinal is attacking the window in one room and then ...
A: You could try finding stickers of birds of prey to put on the windows, just like the ones that are ...
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| Morning doves | 6/6/2008 |
Q: We had a pair of morning doves nesting on our front porch right next to our main door. They nested ...
A: I've never heard that any, of the more than 9000 living species of birds, are able to move altricial ...
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| Baby Sparrows | 6/5/2008 |
Q: I believe a family of house sparrows is living in a section of siding on a house that I am to do ...
A: Two weeks at the most. Nonetheless, even though I'm a bird lover, I particularly despise house ...
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| owls | 5/15/2008 |
Q: do they blink?
A: Yes they do, and doubly so: they have eye-lids like humans do, but below these, they have another, ...
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| Blue Bird Eggs | 4/28/2008 |
Q: Well there is a nest above my moms AC and i looked in the nest and saw blue eggs and i didn't touch ...
A: Your only shot at this is to maybe put them in an incubator. There are many places on the Internet ...
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| common loon devouring mallard chicks | 8/25/2007 |
Q: Two times this summer I've observed a common loon stalking, then chasing a mother mallard with her ...
A: I have never heard of this before, so it is quite interesting. Probably a lack of fish in those ...
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| morning doves | 7/11/2007 |
Q: I have a pair of morning doves that nest in a planter every year on our veranda. this year one of ...
A: There is not much you can do. This bird was probably born handicapped or suffered some illness as a ...
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| Sparrow with broken leg | 7/10/2007 |
Q: I rescued a sparrow from outside my apartment yesterday which seemed to be fledgling.It looks like ...
A: I also live in Spain, but I know of no exact info to give you, except that you could call (or have ...
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| Baby bird that died | 7/7/2007 |
Q: I live in an English Tudor house that has feddors by the roof edge. Now I see that there are a ...
A: It is possible, though quite hard, to raise these chicks by hand. The mother was quite possibly ...
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| Baby Robin | 7/1/2007 |
Q: Yesterday, as I stood in my yard a baby robin dropped from a tree. There is a robins nest in the ...
A: Unlike humans, most animals will only eat as much as their body needs. The diet you're feeding him ...
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| I too have a chichihua | 6/21/2007 |
Q: I too have a chichihua, deer, and am worried about the hawks that are nesting in the tree to my next ...
A: Well, it depends on which type of hawk it is. Anything the size of a red-tailed hawk will be a sure ...
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| finch nest abandoned | 6/7/2007 |
Q: we recently found a nest in a wreath on our door. we moved the wreath to a window next to the door ...
A: Avoid any more harassment to the bird or it's nest for at least 3 weeks. It is possible that the ...
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| robins nests | 5/25/2007 |
Q: Do mother robins have to stay on eggs after she haves them?
A: All bird eggs need brooding, with only one exception: The Megapodius birds of Australia and insular ...
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| baby bird fell from tree | 5/23/2007 |
Q: We do not know what type of baby chick it is. It fell from it's nest during high winds. Don't know ...
A: Survival of the chick is not guaranteed but if there is no way to place it back on it's nest, then ...
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| Bird Nest | 9/9/2006 |
Q: I live in Los Angeles,Ca. and today I had a termite inspection of my house. The inspector called my ...
A: Sorry, nests are not my expertise, much less so in the West Coast, but I have a feeling this is not ...
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| Hummingbirds | 9/7/2006 |
Q: I live in Kentucky and we feed about 20 hummingbirds.What a job keeping the feeders full but what an ...
A: I'm sorry, but I am not familiarized with hummingbird migration in North America. The only thing I ...
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| wild injured bird | 7/21/2006 |
Q: i hope someone can help me, i found a bird about 36hrs ago sitting in the middle of the road ...
A: You're saying that this bird still has baby feathers. If this is the case then there isn't much to ...
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