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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/38197| Title: | The occurrence of two eggs in a nest of a Cory's shearwater Calonectris diomedea |
| Authors: | Cachia-Zammit, Richard Borg, John |
| Keywords: | Shearwaters -- Breeding -- Malta Birds -- Malta Calonectris Procellariidae Procellariiformes |
| Issue Date: | 1988 |
| Publisher: | Malta Ornithological Society |
| Citation: | Cachia-Zammit, R., & Borg, J. (1988). The occurrence of two eggs in a nest of a Cory's shearwater Calonectris diomedea. Il-Merill, 25, 12. |
| Abstract: | A female Cory's Shearwater Calonectris diomedea was found sitting on its nest on 14 June 1987. Alongside the bird there was an egg which was barely covered by a few flank feathers of the sitting shearwater. On retrieving the bird for examination, a second egg was found. When the bird was returned to its nest, it immediately started to incubate the same egg ignoring the one which had been seen earlier partly exposed. Unfortunately another visit to the area a few days Later revealed an empty scattered pieces of egg-shell present. |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/38197 |
| Appears in Collections: | Il-Merill : issue 25 : 1988 Il-Merill : issue 25 : 1988 |
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