Monday, September 5, 2011

The Nest Count is...

We went through the neighborhood and counted the nest that are still in the trees. Several have already blown out due to storms and high winds. We did not include these in our numbers.

Chamberlain = 931

Addington = 270

Total = 1201

So the numbers go:
2 Adult Birds will lay 4 Eggs which will hatch 2 Chicks = 4 Birds / 2 Eggs

2 Breeding Cycles adds 4 more Eggs which will add 2  more Chicks  = 2 Birds / 2 Eggs

plus the Late Comers
2 Adult Birds will lay 4 Eggs which will hatch 2 Chicks = 4 Birds / 2 Eggs

So the total per nest would be 4 Adults / 6 Chicks / 6 Eggs

This means on two streets we had:
4804 Adult Birds
7206 Chicks
7206 Eggs on the ground

The City picked up a little over 700 birds which is about 10% of the birds which comes to 720.

The numbers are the numbers

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