Females can lay thousands of eggs at a time.
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Beneath the first of the Sisters, my eye was caught by a clutch of grey flints that lay together like eggs right at the foot of the cliff.
Cuckoos lay their eggs in the nests of other species including dunnocks, reed warblers and meadow pipits.
Each year, the birds lay their eggs near the site of an old swimming pool on Longsands beach in Tynemouth.
Remarkably, though, when it comes time to lay their own eggs, the female of the species will typically cross the ocean to return to precisely the same beach where she may have hatched 15 years earlier.
Birds were given different colors, squawks and abilities such as extra density, acceleration and the power to lay explosive eggs in the air before winging off their parabolas from the counterforce of laying eggs.
Because peregrine falcons don't build nests but lay their eggs on a flat surface, officials with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey started protecting the eggs several years ago by building nesting boxes on the George Washington and the other bridges the authority operates.
She observed a group of wild swallows, allowed them to pair up and lay eggs and then moved in.
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Backyard farmers focus on texture and taste, and on new breeds of chicken known as Easter Eggers, that lay blue, pink or violet eggs.
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But asexual ants of other species either rely on one or a few individuals to lay eggs, or else only the younger ants do it.
The clothing fibers carry fragrance, perspiration, hair, invisible food stains, all of which over time can turn into protein that attracts insects that lay eggs and will chew up your clothes.
Dr Jaisson reckons that the enormous size of the eggs is the main reason why each individual can only lay two eggs at a time she probably does not have the capacity to lay more.
The classic distinction between golden eggs and the geese that lay them fell into disfavor in 1969, the era of go-go stock funds.
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