Observations of a White-tailed Eagle incubating eggs of a Greylag goose
Cover photo: Adult White-tailed Eagle. Photo: Karl-Otto Jacobsen. Interspecific takeovers of nests are thought to be rare in birds. A female White-tailed Eagle Haliaeetus albicilla was observed incubating a nest of a Greylag Goose Anser anser with five eggs at Reinøya, Troms County, Norway in 2021....
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ftboapojs:oai:boap.uib.no:article/3926 2023-12-31T10:07:37+01:00 Observations of a White-tailed Eagle incubating eggs of a Greylag goose Jacobsen, Karl-Otto Sexton, David 2023-12-05 application/pdf https://boap.uib.no/index.php/ornis/article/view/3926 eng eng BirdLife Norway https://boap.uib.no/index.php/ornis/article/view/3926/3745 https://boap.uib.no/index.php/ornis/article/view/3926 Copyright (c) 2023 Karl-Otto Jacobsen, David Sexton https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 Ornis Norvegica; Vol 46 (2023); 43-46 Anser anser Haliaeetus albicilla interspecific nest takeover Norway Scotland info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2023 ftboapojs 2023-12-06T23:41:13Z Cover photo: Adult White-tailed Eagle. Photo: Karl-Otto Jacobsen. Interspecific takeovers of nests are thought to be rare in birds. A female White-tailed Eagle Haliaeetus albicilla was observed incubating a nest of a Greylag Goose Anser anser with five eggs at Reinøya, Troms County, Norway in 2021. There were no signs of any killed geese in the area around the nest, and there had been no observations of interactions between the two species at the site before the eagle started incubating the eggs. The nest was discovered in the middle of May but was abandoned around midsummer. A similar case reported from the Isle of Mull, Scotland in 2017 was the first of its kind and originally believed to be unique, but the new case in Norway in 2021 suggests that interspecific nest takeover may not be as unusual as previously believed. Article in Journal/Newspaper Haliaeetus albicilla White-tailed eagle Troms Bergen Open Access Publishing (University of Bergen Library) |
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Cover photo: Adult White-tailed Eagle. Photo: Karl-Otto Jacobsen. Interspecific takeovers of nests are thought to be rare in birds. A female White-tailed Eagle Haliaeetus albicilla was observed incubating a nest of a Greylag Goose Anser anser with five eggs at Reinøya, Troms County, Norway in 2021. There were no signs of any killed geese in the area around the nest, and there had been no observations of interactions between the two species at the site before the eagle started incubating the eggs. The nest was discovered in the middle of May but was abandoned around midsummer. A similar case reported from the Isle of Mull, Scotland in 2017 was the first of its kind and originally believed to be unique, but the new case in Norway in 2021 suggests that interspecific nest takeover may not be as unusual as previously believed. |
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Observations of a White-tailed Eagle incubating eggs of a Greylag goose |
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Observations of a White-tailed Eagle incubating eggs of a Greylag goose |
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Observations of a White-tailed Eagle incubating eggs of a Greylag goose |
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Observations of a White-tailed Eagle incubating eggs of a Greylag goose |
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Observations of a White-tailed Eagle incubating eggs of a Greylag goose |
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observations of a white-tailed eagle incubating eggs of a greylag goose |
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BirdLife Norway |
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Haliaeetus albicilla White-tailed eagle Troms |
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Haliaeetus albicilla White-tailed eagle Troms |
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Ornis Norvegica; Vol 46 (2023); 43-46 |
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Copyright (c) 2023 Karl-Otto Jacobsen, David Sexton https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
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