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Laura Scrimshaw
Young Great Blue Herons Waiting For Mom and Dad: These guys look too gargantuan to be babies, but, they are between 4 and 5 weeks old., awaiting their regurgitated supper. After all, the only thing better than spiny sunfish and eels for dinner is regurgitated spiny sunfish and eels.
#heron #rookery #greatblueheron #babybirds #nest #nature #naturephotography #birdwatching #birdphotography #naturephotography #blueheron #springbirds
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Daniel Dvorkin

dailygalaxy.com/2025/06/six-ty

The story is less dramatic than the headline (try to contain your shock) which makes it sound like multiple #species sharing a #nest. That would be tremendous news, implying amazing things about #interspecies behavior. But it's still a very nice find. And I love some of the site names on the map.

Also, the journal article is linked from the story, which IMO should be mandatory for all #popular #science #reporting. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti

What the find does seem to show is a diverse ecosystem with multiple species sharing nesting *grounds*. Some of them were related, like various kinds of the unfairly-named† #oviraptors, while others weren't even #dinosaurs at all! That's still pretty nifty.

I've said it before, but it bears repeating: no more than today, the #Mesozoic was never All Killing, All The Time. Dinosaurs did, of course, hunt and eat each other, and no doubt destroyed rivals' nests as well. But most of the time, they were living their lives in relative peace. Modern dinosaurian behavior is as good a guide as any here: even the meanest #birds tend their nests more than they fight.

†#Oviraptor was discovered on a nest, and the initial assumption was that it was stealing the eggs for food, thus the name "egg thief." Subsequent discoveries showed the eggs were its own—it was brooding, not raiding. But the species and all its kin have to bear the slander through their afterlife.

The Daily Galaxy - Great Discoveries Channel · Six Types Of Dinosaur Eggs Found In One PlaceA recent discovery in Utah reveals multiple types of dinosaur eggs buried together, shaking up what scientists know about ancient nesting habits.
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Janet Dane

#birds #nest this was 2 days ago. The American Robins have tried many times over the years to put nests in the deck and carport structure. They haven’t had much success. But this year I have a little hope for them. The nest is deeper in the structure and harder to access. I don’t want to disturb the nest again anytime soon by taking another picturebut I hope they do well this time.

A wood beam sits beside a grassy birds nest with two bright blue eggs, and two pink hairless hatchlings
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