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Incubation in the #Anthropocene
Or "The bird that mistook its eggs 🥚🥚 for a plastic container"
🙄 This is its story: ⬇️ Thread ⬇️
Or "The bird that mistook its eggs 🥚🥚 for a plastic container"
🙄 This is its story: ⬇️ Thread ⬇️
This Kentish #plover pair incubated a nest of two eggs 🥚🥚 for 22 days, until it was preyed upon by a fox 🦊. But the fox left a strange "egg" 🧐 inside the nest. The female has continued to incubate it for weeks. In #albuferadevalencia 
At the beginning of May 2021 the Kentish plover female laid 2 eggs. 🧐 Can you spot them in this photo? Some pairs are able to camouflage them very effectively.
