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Juvenile Banded Bay Cuckoo fed by adult Common Iora

on 8th August 2009

Seow Boon Eu from Penang, Malaysia, photographed a juvenile Banded Bay Cuckoo (Cacomantis sonneratii) being fed by a Common Iora (Aegithina tiphia).

Obviously the iora is the foster parent of the much larger juvenile. The former has been tricked into incubating and brooding the cuckoo chick. Cuckoos are nest parasites, laying their eggs in the nests of a wide range of birds.

“I noticed that this juvenile is still begging for food from its foster parent, unfortunately I couldn’t see the feeding, because it was hidden and very high up in the canopy. Currently I’m still observing its feeding behavior, hope to get more information from the observation,” says Boon Eu.

An earlier post on nest parasitism can be viewed HERE and below under “Related Posts.”

This post comes courtesy of Seow Boon Eu of Bonyou.

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YC Wee

Dr Wee played a significant role as a green advocate in Singapore through his extensive involvement in various organizations and committees: as Secretary and Chairman for the Malayan Nature Society (Singapore Branch), and with the Nature Society (Singapore) as founding President (1978-1995). He has also served in the Nature Reserve Board (1987-1989), Nature Reserves Committee (1990-1996), National Council on the Environment/Singapore Environment Council (1992-1996), Work-Group on Nature Conservation (1992) and Inter-Varsity Council on the Environment (1995-1997). He is Patron of the Singapore Gardening Society and was appointed Honorary Museum Associate of the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum (LKCNHM) in 2012. In 2005, Dr Wee started the Bird Ecology Study Group. With more than 6,000 entries, the website has become a valuable resource consulted by students, birdwatchers and researchers locally and internationally. The views and opinions expressed in this article are his own, and do not represent those of LKCNHM, the National University of Singapore or its affiliated institutions.

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