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How Birds Grow, From Hatching to Fledgling to Flight

Birds exhibit a wide variety of fascinating nesting and offspring-rearing behaviors throughout their lifecycle. Against the odds, they protect and guide their young from hatching to leaving the nest ...
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The bird that builds its own incubator and raises itself

Did you know that megapodes create natural incubators for their chicks? That’s right, these chicken-like birds are known as ...
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Rates of hatching failure in birds almost twice as high as previously estimated

Forest plot of the mean effect size (hatching failure percentage) estimates and 95% confidence intervals for each factor level for six moderators: threat status, IUCN Red List classification, ...

Four piping plovers hatch at Montrose Beach: ‘Never ceases to be amazing’

Four piping plover chicks hatched Monday at Montrose Beach Dunes Natural Area, marking the latest milestone in Chicago’s ...