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Rates of hatching failure in birds almost twice as high as previously estimated

New study from the University of Sheffield, IoZ, and UCL found more than one in six bird eggs fail to hatch Hatching failure increases as species decline, so the new research could be used to ...
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Proposed ban on bird hatching in Minnesota schools gets amendment following outcry

A bill being discussed in the Minnesota Legislature first aimed to ban hatching of all birds within Minnesota schools and now aims to specifically ban the hatching of waterfowl. HF 4655 seeks to ...
IJR

Birdlovers Celebrate Hatching Of One Of ‘world’s Deadliest Chicks’

Bird keepers are celebrating the first-ever hatching of one of the ‘world’s deadliest chicks’. In the Cotswolds, Birdland has announced its first-ever successful hatching of a southern cassowary ...
NOLA.com

Rare bird eggs hatch on their way to Audubon Zoo

Audubon zookeepers were transporting the three eggs from the National Zoo when these rhea chicks hatched. When zookeeper Carlos Torrez was asked to transport three eggs from an endangered and exotic ...
KENS

WATCH: Mama hawk nesting on Texas highway cam as baby birds are hatching

IRVING, Texas — A bird, which appears to be a hawk, is nested on top of a TxDOT camera on Texas Highway 114 in Irving, Texas, on Tuesday. The feathered animal's little hawklings were beginning to ...