Stanardsville is mentioned 20 times on our forum: Latest news from Stanardsville, VA collected exclusively by city-data.com from local newspapers, TV, and radio stations. Ancestries: United States (17.2%), German (13.1%), Irish (12.2%), English (8.1%), Subsaharan African (6.7%), Polish (1.4%). Current Local Time: EST time zone. Elevation: 668 feet.
A male selects a female and clings to her back. The female digs a hole in the sand and lays her eggs while the male fertilizes them. The female can lay between 60,000 and 120,000 eggs in batches of a few thousand at a time. The eggs take about two weeks to hatch; shore birds eat many of them before they hatch. The larvae molt six times during the first year. Raising horseshoe crabs in captivity has proven to be difficult.
The number of eggs a female bird will lay before her clutch is complete depends on several factors: Species: For example, an Eastern Bluebird may lay 4-7 eggs. (Four or five is most common.) A Black-capped Chickadee typically lays 6-8 per clutch, with as many as 13 reported. Some species (called determinate egg layers) will not lay extra eggs in response to egg removal (simulating removal of eggs by a predator), or do not stop laying eggs if eggs are added to their nest.