The nesting season in Wood Buffalo National Park begins in late April or early May. In central Florida it begins in January and extends through May.

Mean clutch size is 1.94 eggs. Most nests contain two eggs; occasionally, nests contain only one egg, and rarely three.

A pair or family (3-4) of Whooping Cranes can usually be seen from the Observation Tower generally from mid October through March. They feed in the marsh during daylight hours. Be sure to ask at the Visitor Center front desk for the latest sightings. If you want to see many whoopers, you’ll need to take a boat trip out of Rockport. For the latest information on boat tours, call the Rockport Chamber of Commerce at 361-729-6445 or 1-800-242-0071 (in Texas). Out of state, call 1-800-826-6441.

Not all the lice you see can lay eggs. Some may be male lice, others unfertilised females, these don't lay eggs. When combing hair parents sometimes spot large dult lice in the hair and fear they may be in the grip of a head lice outbreak but nothing else happens. They have probably found a male or unfertilised female. If you suddenly find an adult (large) louse on previously clean hair it has almost certainly just climbed onto this head from someone else. Large adults can't just appear.

A typical hen will start to lay eggs at about 6 months of age. The eggs will start out small, then get increasingly larger. During the first year of laying, the hen (if she is a good egg producer) will lay one egg, almost every day. The birds will then go through a "molt" in the late fall/ winter months and stop laying. Then they will start again in the early spring. You can encourage egg laying through the colder months by keeping a light on, inside the chicken coop.

The only remaining natural population nests in Wood Buffalo National Park, in Canada's Northwest Territory, and winters at the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) on the Texas gulf coast. Whooping Cranes were once found over most of North America-from the arctic to central Mexico and from the mid-Atlantic coast and New England to Utah, Wyoming, and New Mexico. A flock of non-migratory (resident) birds persisted in southwestern Louisiana until the late 1940s.

Whooping Cranes feed, nest, and roost in marshes (coastal marshes in Texas), lakeshores, and open grasslands-where there is minimal disturbance by humans.

Whooping Cranes eat aquatic invertebrates (insects, crustaceans, and mollusks), small vertebrates (fish, reptiles, amphibians, birds, and mammals), roots, acorns, and berries.

Young migratory Whooping Cranes become independent from their parents during northward migration or shortly after arrival on the breeding grounds. For non-migratory whooping cranes in Florida, young become independent just before the parents begin their next nesting season.

The average nesting territory for a pair of whooping cranes in Wood Buffalo National Park is 1,013 acres.

Young Whooping Cranes are capable of flight when they are between 80 and 90 days old. Initially, chicks are cinnamon brown; by four months of age emerging white, adult-like feathers produce a mottled appearance. Young Whooping Cranes achieve adult-looking plumage as they approach 1 year of age.

One species called Achatina iradelei gives birth to live young. However, in actual fact, the babies are born from eggs but these are incubated inside the snail.

A female head louse produces about four eggs per day and a total of about 88 eggs during her lifetime.

A female hawksbill turtle lays an average of 4 clutches of eggs each breeding season. These turtles do not breed every year, rather every 2-4 years. Each clutch of eggs contains an average of 150 eggs which are laid during a 15-25 minute period.

Whooping Cranes mate for life, but they will take a new mate after loss of the original. The pair will return to use and defend the same nesting and wintering territory year after year.

We had to ask Whooping Crane Biologist Tom Stehn these questions. He says whoopers live 20-30 years in the wild and can live 40+ years in captivity. The oldest whooping crane in captivity died in January 2003. He was 38 years old. The second question is hard for even Tom to answer. He says that there have been pairs on the same nesting territory for 20+ years.

Day length stimulates egg production in birds. Chickens need a minimum of 14-hours of light (natural and artificial) per day for maximum egg production. The daily photoperiod should never be decreased for layers or a molt may start. Ref. D. Housing and Equipment. "Lighting for Increased Egg Production." This condition is called "neck molt". It is caused by an unusual stress on the hens, such as feed or water deprivation, disease, or sudden changes in temperature.

Answer: he he he...They are so big that my husband has to use a wheelbarrow to move them around. This question comes from people that get EMU's mixed up with a llama. Llama's are definitely not a bird. Question: Where do they go to sleep at night? This was a question asked by my Mother (two years ago) who had not yet meet our llamas and knew nothing about them. This answer made sense to me at the time because we have a cedar forest UP from the house while our pasture is DOWN from the house.

Between a few thousand and several tens of thousands, according to the size of the female. The bigger the female is, the more eggs it lays. However, the survival rate is very low. Of 10,000 larvae, approximately only one will become an adult lobster.