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Parent Birds Feeding & Cleaning Baby Birds

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R ed- vented Bulbul   is a very common bird in   India . This video is made on how these birds take care of  it's  nestlings . The behaviour of the parent birds are really amazing. In this video you will see how it feeds it's  nestlings. Inspite of that, how it collects the stool of nestlings  to keep it clean and secure can also be seen in the video.  Parent birds perform many responsibilities to rear their nestlings. First of all they choose a secure place on the branch of tree or somewhere else where none can harm its eggs or nestlings. Then they make its nest there according to its own style.  The making of the nest   is amazing to watch. It creates nest generally before its breeding season or the time of  laying eggs. The elements that are generally used to make the nest varies according to the species. Then mother bird lays 3/4 eggs  safely inside the nest. The process of incubating eggs is  performed by b...

Baby Birds During Monsoon

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B aby birds are the beautiful creations of  nature. They struggle a lot during monsoon at their phase of life. This video will show how they fight against rain during monsoon. Parent birds collect foods (seeds, fruits, insects, etc.) even in the heavy rain fall to serve food tirelessly to the babies during rainy season. To save babies and nest from rainfall or water during monsoon parent birds cover the nest with its wings like an umbrella.  I'm sure this emotional attachment will please you. ● ► As there was cloud in the sky so the light was too low during recording. I couldn't use any external light source as it can disturb this activity of birds To enjoy the  HD Video on  Baby Birds During Monsoon   click the following  YouTube  link   --►  goo.gl/bheevj                                                 ...

Squirrels in Different Moods

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                                                                           A Squirrel is eating kernel  In the lap of Nature there are many beautiful creations as nature does nothing in vain. Squirrels are one of the kinds of most beautiful yet small creatures in our surroundings. Squirrels are social animal and rodents that have long bushy tails. In general, their fur is soft and silky, although much thicker in some species than others. The color of squirrels is highly variable between—and often even within—species. Squirrels are small but the African pygmy squirrels (10 centimeters long) are the smallest .  The largest are the giant squirrels (90 centimeters long and weigh 3 kilograms) of Asia .  In many cities squirrels are seen more often than any other wild mammal...

A small Jumping Spider Hunting a Cockroach

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                                                                              Jumping Spider captured a cockroach Spiders are the very common eight legged arthropods seen in our house / surroundings, even these can be seen on the slopes of Mount Everest. Jumping spider is a type of spider. The jumping spider family (Salticidae) contains more than 500 described genera and about 5,000 described species, making it the largest family of spiders. Jumping Spiders are generally carnivorous animal and have body length between 1 to 22 mm. These spiders can be found in gardens, walls of our resident or buildings, forests, etc. Jumping Spiders generally hunts small and large insects to collect their body fluid as food. But many species have been known to include nectar in their diets , and very s...

The Making of Tailorbird's Nest [HD]

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                                                                The Common Tailorbird (Orthotomus sutorius) The Common Tailorbird (Orthotomus sutorius) is a songbird found across tropical Asia. The Common Tailorbird, Orthotomus sutorius, is a small warbler whose range extends from India to southern China and down into Indonesia. It is common, mostly in the lowlands, but can range as high as 5000ft. It is found in most habitats with thick cover and can often be found in urban parks and gardens. It’s song was nicely summed up by Rudyard Kipling in Rikki-tikki-tavi, where the tailorbird Darzee continually and irritatingly chirps on without thought given to the content of the piece. Like most warblers, the Common Tailorbird is insectivorous. The song is a loud cheeup-cheeup-cheeup with variations across the popu...

From the World of Wings, Beak & Feather

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  B irds are found on every continent of the world. Birds of different types can live in freezing cold environments, and others can live in hot deserts. Birds live in forests, in grasslands, on cliff faces, in river banks, on stony sea shores, down mine shafts and in the roofs of houses. Birds are a class of vertebrates & they  live in the moment. A ll they do is revel in rushing air and vertical surfaces, trees that swoop up towards them, hot sun warming their hollow bones. . They feel the thrill of free flight and all that  .They are warm-blooded and lay eggs. Birds are bipedal: they have two legs which are often covered with scales (small, flat plates which over-lap in the same way as feathers). They have a hard beak with no teeth.  Their bodies are covered with feathers and they have wings. Feathers have three functions: flight, temperature regulation and display. Most birds have hollow main bones with air sacs in them. This makes them lighter and ...