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A large, female sex cell enclosed in a porous, calcareous or leathery shell, produced by birds and reptiles. (Source: MGH)

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Wolter K, Mundy P, Dube M 2013. Short communications, notes and reports: Incubation patch on a male Cape Griffon. Vulture News 65 37-39

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Benseler A 1982. Priritschnäpper (Batis pririt) Rob. No. 674 - Beobachtungen beim Nestbau und Jungenaufzucht. Lanioturdus 17 (7) 4-5

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Pririt Puff_back Flycatcher.pdf	216.15 KB

Mebes H-D 1981. Notes on the breeding biology of Captive Rosy-Faced Lovebirds Agapornis roseicollis. Lanioturdus 17 (6) 1-4

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Notes on the breeding biology of Captive Rosy_Faced Lovebirds Agapornis roseicollis.pdf	299.29 KB

Soler JJ, Martín-Vivaldi M, Peralta-Sanchez JM, Rodriguez M 2010. Antibiotic-Producing Bacteria as a Possible Defence of Birds against Pathogenic Microorganisms. The Open Ornithology Journal 3 93-100

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Antiobitic producing bacteria in birds_2010.pdf	127.66 KB

2015. Breeding bird data of Namibia.

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Bird Breeding data for Namibia June 2017.xlsx	1.41 MB

Brown CJ, Bridgeford PA, Braine SG, Paxton M, Versfeld W 2015. Breeding data on the birds of Namibia: laying months, colony and clutch sizes and egg measurements. Ornithological Observations 6 92-196

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Breeding data on the birds of Namibia_2015.pdf	1.84 MB

Website link:http://oo.adu.org.za/content.php?id=185

Brendonck L, Riddoch BJ 1999. Wind-borne short-range egg dispersal in anostracans (Crustacea: Branchiopoda). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society67 67 (1) 87-95

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1095-8312.1999.tb01931.x/abstract

Pickford M, Senut B, Dauphin Y 1995. Biostratigraphyof the Tsondab sandstone (Namibia) based on gigantic avian eggshells. Geobios 28 (1) 85-98

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016699595802053

Dauphin Y, Pickford M, Senut B 1998. Diagenetic changes in the mineral and organic phases of fossil avian eggshells from Namibia. Applied Geochemistry 13 (2) 243-256

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0883292797000735

Braine SG, Braine JWS 1971. Chestnut Weavers Ploceus rubiginosus breeding in South West Africa. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 42 (4) 299 - 300

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1971.9634418#.VRpBymf9kpE

Braine JWS, Braine SG 1969. Eagles, vultures and owls found breeding in the Kombat area. Mitteilungen Ornitologische Arbeitsgruppe SWA Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft 4 (12) 1 - 4

Segalen L, Renard M, Pickford M, Senut B, Cojan I, le Callonnec L, Rognon P 2002. Environmental and climatic evolution of the Namib Desert since the Middle Miocene: the contribution of carbon isotope ratios in ratite eggshells. Comptes Rendus Geoscience 334 (12) 917-924

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1631071302018370

Bertram BCR, Burger AE 1981. Are Ostrich Struthio camelus eggs the wrong colour?. Ibis 123 207 - 210

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1474-919X.1981.tb00927.x/full

Bertram BCR 1979. Ostriches recognize their own eggs and discard others. Nature 279 233 - 234

Website link:https://www.researchgate.net/publication/22702707_Ostriches_recognize_their_own_eggs_and_discard_others

Segalen L, Renard M, Lee-Thorp JA, Emmanuel L, le Callonnec L, de Rafélis M, Senut B, Pickford M, Melice J-L 2006. Neogene climate change and emergence of C4 grasses in the Namib, southwestern Africa, as reflected in ratite 13C and 18 O. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 244 (3-4) 725-734

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X05008708

Sibley CG, Ahlquist JE 1972. A Comparative Study of the Egg White Proteins of Non-Passerine Birds. Peabody Museum of Natural History 39

Website link:http://openlibrary.org/works/OL1286558W/A_comparative_study_of_the_egg_white_proteins_of_non-passerine_birds

Roberts A 1926. Descriptions of some S. African birds' eggs. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 11 (4) 226-244

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Simmons R 1986. Food Provisioning, Nestling Growth and Experimental Manipulation of Brood Size in the African Redbreasted Sparrowhawk Accipiter rufiventris. Ornis Scandinavica 17 (1) 31-40

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/3676750?uid=4&sid=21100861992911

Simmons R, Barnard P, Smith PC 1987. Reproductive Behaviour of Circus cyaneus in North America and Europe: A Comparison. Ornis Scandinavica 18 (1) 33-41

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/27669756?uid=4&sid=21100861900201

Barnard P, MacWhirter B, Simmons R, Hansen GL, Smith PC 1987. Timing of breeding and the seasonal importance of passerine prey to northern harriers (Circus cyaneus). Canadian Journal of Zoology 65 (8) 1942-1946

Website link:http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/abs/10.1139/z87-295

Simmons RE 1990. Copulation patterns of African marsh harriers: Evaluating the paternity assurance hypothesis. Animal Behaviour 40 (6) 1151–1157

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347205801812

Simmons RE 1994. Supplemental food alters egg size hierarchies within Harrier clutches. Oikos 71 341-348

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/3546283

Roberts A 1946. Nest and eggs of White-tailed Shrike. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 17 (4) 364 - 365

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1946.9639257#.VRJklGc5ApE

Plowes DCH 1946. Data on birds eggs in my collection: Part II. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 17 (2) 111 - 121

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1946.9638905#.VRJjh2c5ApE

Plowes DCH 1945. Data of bird's eggs collected. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 16 (2) 109 - 117

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1945.9638892#.VRGEWWc5ApE

Winterbottom JM 1971. Priest's eggs of southern African birds.

Urban EK 1984. Time of egg-laying and number of nesting Great White Pelicans at Lake Shala Shala, Ethiopia, and elsewhere in Africa. Proceedings of the 5th Pan-African Ornithological Congress

Website link:https://www.birdlife.org.za/about-us/history

Sauer EGF, Sauer EM, Gebhardt M 1975. Normal and abnormal patterns of Struthious eggshells from South West Africa. Biomineralization research report 8 32 - 54

Sauer EGF, Rocher CJV 1967. Flamingo nests and eggs on Etosha Pan, South West Africa. Bokmakierie 19 10 - 11

Website link:http://witsbirdclub.org.za/downloads/

Sauer EGF, Rocher CJV 1966. Flamingo nests and eggs on Etosha Pan, South West Africa. SWA Scientific Society Special Publication 6 (6) 10 - 11

Sauer EGF 1966. Fossil eggshell fragments of a giant struthious bird (Struthio oshanai, sp. Nov.) From Etosha Pan, South West Africa. Cimbebasia 14 1 - 51

Priest CD 1948. Eggs of birds breeding in southern Africa.

Peakall DB, Keaf LF 1979. Eggshell thinning and DDE residue levels among Peregrine Falcons Falco peregrinus: A global perspective. Ibis 121 (2) 200 - 204

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1474-919X.1979.tb04962.x/abstract

Nöller R, Jensen RAC 1976. Postcript Peter's parasitized prinia. Bokmakierie 28 99 - 100

Website link:http://witsbirdclub.org.za/downloads/

Maclean GL 1958. A nest of the Rufous-necked Falcon (Tinnunculus ruficollis) in the Namib. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 29 (2) 88 - 89

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1958.9639074#.VRLCG2c5ApE

Logie AC 1972. Ostrich eggshell beads. SWA Annual 1972 87 - 97

Conti E, Costa G, Marletta A, Viscuso R, Vitale DGM 2015. The chorion of eggs in a Namibian Ariadna species (Araneae: Segestriidae): morphological and SEM analyses. Journal of Arachnology 43 (2) 224-227

Website link:http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1636/M14-72

Hoesch W 1958. Nest und Gelege der Wüstenlerche Ammomanes grayi. Journal für Ornitologie 99 426 - 430

Gaerdes F 1964. Studie über die Vogeleier. Journal of the SWA Scientific Society 7 (3 - 4) 4 - 5

Dean WRJ, Jensen RAC 1974. The nest and eggs of Bradfield's swift. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 45 (1) 44

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1974.9639173#.VRqxpGf9kpE

Cooper J 1987. Biology of the Bank Cormorant, Part 5: Clutch size, eggs and incubation. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 58 (1) 1 - 8

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1987.9633667#.VSZHv2f9kpE

Pickford M, Senut B, Dauphin Y 1995. Biostratigraphy of the Tsondab sandstone (Namibia) based on gigantic avian eggshells. Geobios 28 (1) 85 - 98

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016699595802053

Masaire E, Madzingira O, Samkange A, Kandiwa E, Mushonga B, Bishi AS 2018. Characterization of poultry production and management systems in the communal areas of Namibia. African Journal of Poultry Farming 6 (3) 265-276

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Suhling F, Schenk K, Padeffke T, Martens A 2004. A field study of larval development in a dragonfly assemblage in African desert ponds (Odonata). Hydrobiologia 528 (1-3) 75-85

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Lloyd P, Pláganyi E, Lepage D, Little RM, Crowe TM 2000. Nest-site selection, egg pigmentation and clutch predation in the ground-nesting Namaqua Sandgrouse, Pterocles namaqua. Ibis 142 123-131

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Nest_site selection_egg pigmentation and clutch predation_ground-nesting Namaqua Sandgrouse.pdf	1006.74 KB

Lloyd P, Little RM, Crowe TM 2001. The breeding biology of the Namaqua Sandgrouse, Pterocles namaqua. Ostrich 72 (3/4) 169-178

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Cunningham PL, van Rooyen J 2020. First confirmed record of green turtle (Chelonia mydas) nesting along the Namibian coast. Namibian Journal of Environment 4 (B) 16-18

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First confirmed record of green turtle nesting along the Namibian coast.pdf	1.14 MB

Jauch H 1995. Incubation of leopard tortoise Geochelone paradalis eggs under natural conditions. 36-37

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Incubation of leopard tortoise Geochelone paradalis eggs under natural conditions.pdf	2.55 MB

Clinning CF 1978. On the occurrence of two egg 'clutches' in the Lappet-faced Vulture. Madoqua 11 (1) 77 - 79

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Gutiérrez-Expósito C, García-Gorria R, Qninba A, Clavero M, Revilla E 2020. Breeding ecology of the Andalusian Buttonquail Turnix sylvaticus sylvaticus. Ostrich 91 (1) 75-82

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Breeding ecology of the Andalusian Buttonquail Turnix sylvaticus sylvaticus_Manuscript.pdf	706.42 KB

Website link:https://www.ajol.info/index.php/ostrich/article/view/194320