Summary[edit] Description: Carondelet Park 8/3/13 - Watching the parents feed their nestlings and then quickly notice when a nestling is defecating upon which the parent takes the glob of feces in their bill as the glob exits the little one's rear is something extraordinary. The fecal sac is them quickly removed from the nest area. The nestling really hikes his rear, making me wonder if they know instinctually to offer it up to their parents, just as the parents know to remove it. Most people don't get to witness this, as it happens so quickly. I pulled these photos out of our digiscoped video so others could see this incredible dedication to the young and to the hygiene of the nest. As Donna Schulman nicely puts it, "Birds feed the young and then carry out their waste in membranes called fecal sacs. They carry the sacs far away, because when birds clean house, birds clean house.". Date: 6 August 2013, 11:25. Source: Eastern Wood-Pewee Fecal Sac Removable Series - Chick #1. Author: Andy Reago & Chrissy McClarren.
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