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Here's a large fully-fledged "brancher" -- a juvenile out of the nest, but still spending time in the nest tree -- aggressively grabbing the bill of feeding parent. This is behavior that stimulates the adult to regurgitate the food item -- here what looks to be a pretty large fish -- for the young bird to eat. It looked in this case that the parent was requiring the young bird to do a lot of work for the food. Maybe coming to the end of the feeding period -- "good to go"?
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| marko gregoric | 25-Nov-2008 17:10 | |
| vholmes | 09-Oct-2007 05:01 | |