In addition, with cuckoos laying their eggs in other birds nests, there may be issues with their key hosts, such as the meadow pipit and dunnock, being in decline.
Large sections of beaches are fenced off for months to safeguard the birds' nests.
Schwab and Fidelity are acting rather like cuckoos that borrow other birds' nests.
An old woman was cleaning cobwebs and birds' nests out of the high-up stained-glass nooks with a 5-meter-long branch of bamboo.
Biologist Francisco de Assis Neo, quoted by the French news agency AFP, said that at this time of year "the birds make their nests and become more timid and, therefore, more difficult to find".
Thirteen of these birds came from infested nests and 9 from nests that were free of parasites.
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The 3, 000 reindeer are trampling native plants, causing erosion and endangering king penguins and other local birds by destroying their nests and habitat.
As the Moon's disc began to leave the Sun, it was light again, and birds, which had flown to their nests only minutes earlier, came chirping out again.
Two nests have since been established and volunteers say some of the same birds have returned, although a new male moved into one nest last year.
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The trust said money raised would be used to protect wild nests, feed underweight wild chicks, increase nest site availability and release captive-raised birds.
Steve Sinkevich, a senior biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service who monitors the nests at Breezy Point, said the agency, the parks service and the cooperative collaborate to protect the birds with the least amount of recreational interference.
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