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Estonian text posted 28.04. 2018

By ten thirty there were six eggs in the nest

Starling             Kuldnokk         Sturnus vulgaris

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Estonian text posted 26.04.2018

In the morning at 10 o’clock the female had laid an egg …

Starling        Kuldnokk        Sturnus vulgaris

The strength of passerines to lay eggs always feels amazing, how does the body of a small bird have this capacity?

When we crack open a hen’s egg in the course of cooking we notice a small white dot on the yolk – it is the germinal disc  from which the chick develops. The developing chick feeds on the yolk during the incubation.

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Estonian text posted 27.04.2018

By 10 o’clock in the morning the fifth egg was in the nest box

Starling      Kuldnokk       Sturnus vulgaris

By today there are five eggs in the nest box  and four of them the female laid each subsequent morning. In case of passerines it may be noted that the female uses about 60% of her daily energy need  for laying an egg.

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Estonian text posted 25.04.2018

The third egg the starling laid half past 10

Starling            Kuldnokk        Sturnus vulgaris

The first egg we spotted in the nest box in the evening of April 22, the second in the morning of April 24 and the third in the morning of April 25.

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Estonian text posted 24.04.2018

The second egg this morning…

Starling          Kuldnokk      Sturnus vulgaris

At about half past nine it seemed that the starling female was laying an egg and a quarter of an hour later we could see a second egg in the nest box.

The first egg came into the nest box in the evening of April 22, the second in the morning of April 24. Let us wait and see,  most commonly the female lays five to six eggs.