Jasper
![a biologists holds a curlew with green fields and cloudy skies in the background](https://www.boisestate.edu/ibo/wp-content/uploads/sites/141/2019/09/58_HorseCreek_WY.jpg)
Aluminum Band:
58
Capture date:
June 1, 2017
Sex:
Male
Location:
Horse Creek, WY
Namesake:
One of our Curlew Checking volunteers, Denise Hughes, named him Jasper after the beautiful natural element in the intermountain west!
Unlike most curlews, he doesn’t have a green leg flag because his leg was too skinny to fit the size flags we had! His 9-digit band number ends in the numbers “58”.
Female curlews typically lay a clutch of 3-4 eggs, but this Wyoming male’s over-achieving mate laid 5!
![a freshly hatched curlew chick in a 5 egg nest](https://www.boisestate.edu/ibo/wp-content/uploads/sites/141/2019/09/mvjaspernest.jpg)
Incubation duty is shared by both parents- the females will incubate all throughout the day, and the males will sit with them all night. These eggs will be on the ground for 28-30 days, so they need round-the-clock-protection! Freshly-hatched chick number 1 waits for its four other siblings to hatch. Look closely for chick number 2’s bill sticking from the egg!