SUNBIRDS NEST 🪺 IN MY BACKYARD PART-2 OF 4 | 43/1993

This video is the second of a four-part series where I explore the Sunbird nest in my backyard. I have close to 120 GB of footage of the Nest from different angles. It took me a couple of months to go through the footage to make this. The videos for Part 03 and Part 04 were taken by my mom as I had to go out of station.
There was one day when the birds were very chirpy and they managed to attract a Coucal that lives in the area, hungry for a little snack, the Coucal attacked the nest by standing on the branch the nest was on.
It managed to get its claws on the nest and rip one side of the nest. I was able to see the commotion and shoo the Coucal away just in time giving the birds another day to live.
I got so used to taking videos of them that I couldn't see them being attacked. But that's nature I suppose, big eat small.
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Part-01 had A Purple-Rumped Sunbird pair built a nest on a Gooseberry tree (Amla) in my backyard. They had a clutch of 2 eggs which hatched a week ago. The baby chicks will to be strong enough to fly within 10 days. This video is Part-01 of 04, it introduces the parents and their journey through raising baby chicks. I'm currently editing footage of the nest after the coucal attack and the first flight, please do stick around for the part-03 and 04.
The purple Rumped Sunbirds are endemic to Indian Subcontinent, they are only 10cm in size. They breed through the year and may have two broods, mainly during the monsoon. The Female usually builds the nest by herself while the male flies beside her. The nest is made up of plant fibres, cobwebs, bark pieces and fly seeds. The nest interior is lined with soft fibres. The eggs are usually laid in the morning, incubated both by male and female. The incubation period varies from 14 to 16 days. The chicks fledge in about 17 days and continue to be fed by the male for a few days. Females or possibly juveniles from a previous brood may sometimes assist the parents in feeding the young.
A fecal sac is a mucous membrane, generally white or clear with a dark end, that surrounds the feces of some species of nestling birds. It allows parent birds to more easily remove fecal material from the nest. The nestling usually produces a fecal sac within seconds of being fed. These act like diapers which are either discarded or eaten by the parents. One of the hypotheses as to why the parent birds eat the fecal sac is that there is useful material in it and trying to feed the chicks can take a lot of hardwork, the fecal sac provides the necessary water and energy.
Music:
Swans In Flight - Asher Fulero
Can-Can (by Offenbach) - Offenbach
Chapters:
00:00 - 00:27 : Intro
00:27 - 01:04 : Recap
01:04 - 02:01 : Feeding
02:01 - 03:33 : Fecal Sac
03:33 - 06:39 : Babies Growing up
06:39 - 07:26 : Part 03, 04 Tease
07:26 - 07:31 : Outro
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Nice video 💯📸

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