tit-cuckoo feeding in nest box 

Aw yeesus.

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Because it is a nest box

If only the birdhouse entrance was a bit smaller there never would have been a Cuckoo egg to begin with. Chances are it killed at least two other host chicks/eggs in the attempt and taking in all the food from host parents. You can see one of the killed eggs in the corner, got stuck and killed due to no heat.

not aby longer trust me...

IKR!!!! The mommy birds literally sit and watch their eggs being ejected. Smh

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#16 Racing is hey would starve to death :)

the adult cuckoo had to get in there to lay the egg in the first place

@@digiquo8143 it probably stuck its bottom through but that cuckoo won't be able to get out and then it will starve :)

@@digiquo8143 a fully grown, all fattened up chick is often larger than its parents.

@@digiquo8143 damn that's true.

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yeah me to sister

Well, a minute into the video, the cuckoo is also threatening the host parent when it feeds its own chick rather than it! Bird language for "You'd better feed me and only me! You may be the parent here, but I'm the bigger bird. I'll bite you!". Very frustrating!

He also attacks the mother asking to be fed

Y'all are so stupid. It's a bird and a baby at that, it has no idea what it is, it runs on instinct and there's nothing malicious about it. Cuckoos grow fast and they need a lot of food.

So direspectful

@@GalankAdityaM Cuckoo: "You may be the parent here, but don't you dare forget that I'm the bigger bird! Whether or not you raise me makes no difference now, whatsoever! Unless you wanna get repeatedly bitten by my obnoxiously sharp beak, you'll feed ME everything, and your natural offspring, NOTHING!!"

lol ya

Yeah, whether he likes it or not.

Or suffocating it. Either way warm is warm.

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There is a species cuckoos that produce a smell which put off cats so a symbiotic relationship can occur, but it's rare.

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A while back? I'm sure cuckoo bird tastes like chicken!

Ha ha its a terrible little parasite but killing its to good for it... Jk i don't mean torture,its probably going to starve days later when it can't leave the nest.

Hahaha

@@PELTIER5 ohhhhhhhhhh i never taught about that

Does anyone else find it interesting how the mother feeds her real chick first before the cuckoo chick? Also, anyone else concerned that the cuckoo will smother the other chick to death? I wish the poster of this video told us what happened at the end… this is the first time i saw a cuckoo coexist with another chick.

@@dynamicdave2647 you mean, mother tries to feed her real chick. But she failed.

@@VVarat i think she failed only because the food she brought was too big

@@dynamicdave2647 It doesn't look that big... I'm not an bird expert, but we can see mother putting the food in chicks mouth many times, but that's all. I don't know how that works, is the mother failing to let go of the food, or the chick fails to grab the food?

Sometimes the parent will check the strength of the chicks pulling on the food. If the chick doesn't pull hard enough on the food then the parent thinks to give the food to a stronger chick.@@VVarat

1 egg got pushed out

Maybe it's fat ass will get stuck in the box and die!!!!!

they normally push them out of the nest but it looks like the opening is too high for that

Exactly, the cuckoo ejected the egg to get rid of potential "competitors"...eggs outside of nest cup are usually ignored by parent.

The big said babybirld,is not thisnext is out said bird put not have build a nest, go to someone else's nest to lay eggs, lir otherbirds to help take care raise their own babybirds growning up

@@petersamas6798. what happened to the egg on the side? why didn't you take the grown intruder out, so the mother could incubate the egg?

@@s.guttmann6625 Often times, Cuckoo parents will return and destroy the entire nest they parasitised, killing all the remaining chicks, should they find that their egg/chick has been removed by any means whatsoever (whether it be the parent birds' ejection or by humans) from the nest they parasitised - thus, no chicks at all would survive in that case. This is called the 'mafia hypothesis'. Cuckoos control some levels of insect species from getting out of control, since they tend to eat so much. That's why most nature experts say it's best to leave it alone if you happen to come across any type of parasitised bird nest. This is a very difficult thing to do since cuckoos like this one are so hateable.

cat food.

I said it in another post but: "I must advise against it since it's proably illegal, but if you have to do so anyway remember to wear fresh gloves. If you get your smell on the other eggs or chicks the parents may abandon them."

Lmfao. Justice!

well, if its parent was able to shit there, then her baby will succeed to get out also ))))

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Is there a video of the moment the cuckoo chick is ready to fledge?

Vindication for that one egg.🤣🤣🤣

Yes, mixed brood (cuckoo with host nestlings) can be observed more often in (semi)cavity nesters such as great tit or redstart. Great tit fledged succesfully and had even above average weight. In this nest, female cuckoo laid her egg originally into redstart nest which was later usurped by the great tit (see the redstart egg next the cuckoo). Very unusual case.

why didnt the redstart select a proper nest?

Usually the cuckoo can eat the left over chick, I don't know why haven't here

burnleyfan11965 : Its becoz of the nest type..Here is a box so the cuckoo chick can't push the other chick off the nest box coz of the height of d box hole.

When a cuckoo cannot get rid of eggs (cause of the shape of the nest) he usually bully other chicks stealing them food but he don't kill them.

Thats partly the point of the video. The parasite wants to be fed so badly.

I disagree. I think the small baby kept clamping down on the mothers beak it didn't allow him to grab the insect. On more than one occasion the insect went all the way in his mouth

@@VentureWelding A year later reply... 0:54 watch carefully, the mom fed the cuckoo.

@@goshtic9565 Read their post again, because he's not arguing otherwise. He's responding to someone who implied that the bug was too big for the host chick to eat. He was pointing out that the mother fit the bug all the way into its mouth multiple times, but decided to feed it to the cuckoo anyways. As for why, it's likely because birds rely on it "catching" on a specific part of the inside of a chick's mouth to know it'll go down properly, and it simply wasn't happening. Could also be due to an inexperienced parent, or the incessant begging from the giant cuckoo chick.

Dont know why the mom brought a food too big to fit inside chicks mouth

He is getting too big. There are bars in the hole!! I wonder if the big bird will make it out of that box!!

@@redhat4363 I'd worry that the big one would kill the other especially if he cant get out and he hungry.

@@redhat4363 if the mother put the egg inside in the same way he will go out… need too be more nest with small hole so no mother parasite can’t get in…

@@fortunafortuna2193 hm.. she could lay her egg without getting inside the box.

@@shycat5905 Nah, only the African Honeyguide ruthlessly and directly kills the competition. The least harmful parasite is the American Cowbird, which is smaller and better able to share. It only occasionally kills other chicks by pushing them out. The cuckoo is in between these two, and usually really doesn’t need to kill over food, but over space. In a box, however, there’s plenty of space, so all can potentially thrive, although it helps when the box is built in the round just big enough for the nest to be snug in, so he doesn’t have corners to push the eggs into. In those cases, he can try all day, they just fall right back into the nest. He might occasionally kill one from tossing her around too much, but that’s it.

Wanna see something cool? Two Cookoos in a nest trying to push each other out. Ultimate battle that i always wished for... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ilS6DwFlsb8.html

Make the bird house so the cuckoo cant push the other eggs out or bury the eggs. I love the way this cuckoo isn't being fed.

SL twentyeight I KNOW RIGHT

Lol...it's natural sirculate

Same

Right thats what i was thinking. In the other videos, the mother feeds the cuckoo first bc of its bigger presence

Actually it did feed the cuckoo if you have good eyes.

Or, maybe, he planted the cuckoo there for views? Disturbing.

She cannot feed the host chick because the bug was to big

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+SealMr2 Very interesting the host parent could recognize a parasite chick, very unusual in cuckoo host! What was the species of cuckoo host? We attempted to track this cuckoo using geolocator but the signal disappeared after few months after fledging, unfortunately.

Peter Samas but if it recognize parasite host why feed it so big? Why foster parents recognize it as parasitic?

I think that parents don't recognize cuckoo chick as a parasite (at least research suggests this) so observation of SealMr2 sounds exceptional to me in case the cuckoo starved to death.

Err.. Did I watch a different video? I saw the mother eventually feeding the whole meal to the cuckoo (the bigger of the two babies).

@@maddykash i saw that at first the mother tried to feed her real kid many times but he didnt eat. Only after that she gave food to adoptee

The little one probably survived because it was in pretty good condition a day before its fledging. We unfortunately don't have a video of fledging itself.

Peter Samas thank you I was hoping for the little one to make it through

I'm glad to see one of the host's chicks survived.

You need some help there, Buddy.

Calm down it’s just a Chik.

Shut up, subhuman. @@mikefoley3785

It's nature. Welcome to life where things aren't fair

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No, we just have a decent-sized brain

Cowbirds are another species that behave like the Cuckoo.. I hate them both.

Yep, we really need to see more cuckoo abuse videos!!!!

Форма гнезда не позволила это сделать.

Все пишут что кукушонок подрастет и не сможет в маленькую дырку вылететь ) интересно как он выбрался

@@ladalada6346 Никак. Так и сдох там.

Я тоже в начале подумал как же так, а потом до меня дошло!)) Если бы мать кукушка не смогла бы залезть в гнездо, она бы не отложила там яйцо) поэтому все продумала, залезла сама-вылезет и дитё🤣

Planted by a human? Maybe for RU-vid views? Disturbing.

Ok then you absolute scumbag