Wild Emus at The Lilly Pilly Tree

[Finchbreeder]

I can only compare with Finches and Budgies - who sometimes mess up their 1st lay - so go back and do it again.
Do you know if this happens with Emu's?
Could Bush and Haystack have - got it wrong 1st time?

 

[Finnie]

I can only compare with Finches and Budgies - who sometimes mess up their 1st lay - so go back and do it again.
Do you know if this happens with Emu's?
Could Bush and Haystack have - got it wrong 1st time?

That’s a good point. But budgies and finches can lay and raise multiple clutches in a row, whereas the incubation and parenting period of emus is so much longer and they are used to only raising one clutch. I wonder if that means emus are less geared towards starting over. If they do start over, will the lateness of the season affect the chicks as far as food supply and weather conditions? (I don’t know what the normal time spread is for beginning and ending of emu-hatching season.)

 

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'I can only compare with Finches and Budgies - who sometimes mess up their 1st lay - so go back and do it again.
Do you know if this happens with Emu's?
Could Bush and Haystack have - got it wrong 1st time?'

This is great stuff, Finchbreeder.

We've seen a clip of a male -- presumably young -- who just wanders away from his eggs 'for a second,' and they get et by a monster (Varanus).

We are pretty sure that Felicity Emu didn't breed until she was five because her sister Greedy Emu was a tyrrant.

 

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But let us, for the umpteenth time, duck back to methodology. Read the following:

How many chicks are there in a clutch?
How many chicks are there in Limpy Chick's clutch?
Do emus dream of electric sheep?
How many clutches has Planet Rothschildi observed over the years?
What is the density of breeding-pairs, during breeding-season, in this district?

 

[briefvisit]

There are three categories here: things we can know; things we can partly know, and things we can't know.

We work in the realm of what we can know/what we can guess from incomplete data.

For example, the density of breeding-pairs?

We've seen Random Dad and his chicks. We guess they didn't hatch a month ago a hundred miles away. So we interimly call them a datum.

Three months we had three 'breeding-pairs' under observation: Limpy Chick and Offsider, U.E. and her consort, and Bush and Haystack.

We now know that Limpy Chick and Offsider successfully bred -- the chicks are here right now.

But the other two? Heck -- who knows?! Are they even 'breeding-pairs'? Will they breed now, super late?

 

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https://imgur.com/0EeMed7

 

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https://imgur.com/oIJ5qnk

 

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This is unmistakeable. Limpy Chick spends long seconds intently focused on the horizon -- where the bush meets the house-clearing. There's no threat to his clutch closer than that.

https://imgur.com/LQQaVaJ

 

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https://imgur.com/0PazAc2