Both male and female boobies incubate their eggs with their feet. Blue jays are gorgeous perching birds native to eastern ...

Bird eggs range in colors and can be ornately maculated ... Clutch size: 2 to 7 eggs Blue jays swiftly remove sharp eggshell fragments to protect their newly hatched brood from harm.

Despite the high numbers of birds (if I’m lucky) there is a relative calm about the morning gathering right up until that special moment when the blue jays arrive. Then things get a little crazy.

It was all suddenly clear: That jay didn’t have a love nest, he had a nest egg ... The blue jay in my backyard is a ladies’ man. Each day, he swoops onto the bird feeder and fills up on ...

Or the majestic turquoise mottled eggs of the blue jay? Each egg is unique ... In some animal groups, including birds, the egg cemented itself in a crystalline shell to harden itself to planet ...