10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The species is classified as Near Threatened for all the usual depressing reasons – pollution, drainage, hunting, and the collection of eggs and nestlings ( source ). The dangers of being a geologist. If you want to know how not to build attractive nests, you may want to look up a paper on the nest of a Yellow-eared Spiderhunter.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2023

A paper reports on how a female Common Cuckoo was mobbed and killed by Oriental Reed Warbler hosts. Not only does this species directly parasitize other species but also metaphorically, by imitating the sparrowhawks in its appearance and thus deterring potential predators.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Another paper reviews information on Oriental Pied Hornbills raiding the nests of various bird species in Singapore and even pet bird cages. The latter is even captured in a somewhat gruesome video , in which the hornbill plucks a caged bird out of its cage and kills and eats it. Then she tried to feed it to the remaining chicks.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 8, 2023

The Large-billed Crow ( video ) is one of the natural enemies – in the study above, it predated 19 eggs from four pitta nests. Different from many other parasitic cuckoos, the chick typically does not kill all its nest mates, though one or two of them may die from starvation.

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