American Avocet Bird
by David Dehner
Title
American Avocet Bird
Artist
David Dehner
Medium
Photograph - Digital Modifications
Description
A female American Avocet may lay one to four eggs in the nest of another female, who then incubates the eggs. American Avocets may parasitize other species' nests too; single American Avocet eggs have been found in the nests of Mew Gulls. Other species may also parasitize avocet nests. Avocets have incubated mixed clutches of their own eggs and those of Common Terns or Black-necked Stilts. The avocets reared the stilt hatchlings as if they were their own.
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March 28th, 2013
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