American Kestrel Chick Upended During Feeding - June 21, 2018
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- čas přidán 20. 06. 2018
- Watch one of the kestrel chicks go for a wild ride during an early morning feeding! One of the nestlings gets upended by the female after she tries to pull a bit of prey from the chick's bill mid-swallow. After taking a moment to correct itself, the chick recovers and goes back to feeding.
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The American Kestrel cam is a collaboration between the Cornell Lab or Ornithology and the Raptor Resource Project.
Four downy American Kestrel nestlings are tucked into a gravel-bottomed nest on private property near Prairie Du Chien, Wisconsin. The nest box is located on the side of a traditional limestone-footed barn, overlooking a rolling grassland that slopes away into folded hills and forests. Our partners at the Raptor Resource Project have watched kestrels breed at this site for over 25 years, and the wonderful combination of grassland, forest, and water that surrounds the property is an excellent example of the habitat that kestrels need to survive and thrive. Watch cam.
The young birds began hatching out of their eggs on June 14th, and the remaining egg in the nest is unlikely to hatch at this point. Over the next 3-4 weeks the nestlings will transform from downy bobbleheads to sleek, dull versions of their parents on a diverse diet of invertebrates, small mammals, and birds (watch this highlight of the female feeding the young). After fledging, the young will continue to be cared for by their parents, remaining near the nest as they learn to hunt and master flight.
Don't miss the outside view! A second camera has been installed to give views of the nest box opening from the outside so viewers can observe the kestrels' comings and goings, as well as the nestlings once they begin peering outside. To toggle between the two camera views, click the "switch camera" icon in the lower right of the livestream player, next to the settings wheel.
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Awwwwww that was “Junior” the smallest little guy with the cutest personality he thought he was ruff n tuff he was too, his size didn’t hold him back at all ❤️😇💯‼️
Fabulous to see, I have just completed a Kestrel nest box and will get it up a tree in the autumn here in England.
Awww, they are so cute!!!
Why did the mom pull the food out of the mouth of the baby. I notice it happens often.
I noticed that you use small stones for the bottom of the nest box. Is this the preferred material for the kestrel nest boxes ?
Aww poor baby!
Theres always that one kid
Aww, so cute!
a beautiful video! My congratulations, really well done! Best regards
That one chick eats everything and everybody else's too
2:30 Me eating spaghetti lol
too funny, the others just look and shake their heads
She giveth and she taketh away
Thank You.
Namaste `
I used to watch the common red or famously known as european kestrels, i know to distinguish their grnders by looking on their head and back and wings. Males have grey heads and chestnut wings and on their back, while the females are mostly brown
Females have dark bars across their tails while males have grey tail. Idk for american kestrels but i suppose this one is a female
I really miss watching these little fellas with their big sister she was so adorable she never used her size to her advantage she was such an adorable little Kestrel her n Junior were really close to each other. Just look at Junior sitting there with his mouth open while trying to stay awake, the second to the smallest one is falling asleep on his sister my poor Junior u just got to love him
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bad mother
Perfect example of what a Paleo/Keto diet can achieve.
Lol they’re birds
I would hate to make her mad
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the mother found out that she mistakenly fed the kid that she was trying to starve, so she took the food back from the kid. How sad. I think she intends to kill that smallest chick
No No don't think that way...😶
I agree. It looks like the runt and I think she is starving it. She also didn't feed one of the other chicks much. Maybe she intends to get it down to 2.
No, she tried to cut little meat for her kid, but she was so stupid
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