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The Stone Curlew prepares to nest at Wilderness Orchard in Delhi. However, summer breeding season worries persist, as the Rhesus macaques and cats could get their eggs like they did last summer! The Curlews have become territorial and started to display breeding behaviour. They sit on the ground as if they are incubating their eggs, to judge and gauge the safety levels for breeding here this year. Stone Curlews with big bulgy nocturnal eyes prepare to nest at Wilderness Orchard in Delhi: Summer breeding season worries Big yellow eyes and a shy cute face! With a flowering larkspur behind, a Stone Curlew approached its nest scrape, and sits on its eggs in the open harsh summer sun at the Wilderness Orchard in New Delhi, on 31st March 2022. See the large thick beak of the Thick knee! The Curl
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