{"id":58551,"date":"2019-09-08T00:01:07","date_gmt":"2019-09-07T16:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/?p=58551"},"modified":"2023-06-24T16:49:55","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T08:49:55","slug":"nesting-common-tailorbirds-one-full-circle-part-11-faecal-sacs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/2019\/09\/08\/nesting-common-tailorbirds-one-full-circle-part-11-faecal-sacs\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a9 Nesting Common Tailorbirds &#8211; One Full Circle Part 11 Faecal Sacs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/2019\/07\/02\/nesting-of-common-tailorbirds-one-full-circle-part-1\/\">Part 1<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/2019\/07\/11\/nesting-common-tailorbirds-one-full-circle-part-2-nest-building\/\">Part 2<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/2019\/07\/21\/nesting-common-tailorbirds-one-full-circle-part-3\/\">Part 3<\/a>; <a href=\u201dhttps:\/\/besgroup.org\/2019\/07\/29\/nesting-common-tailorbirds-one-full-circle-part-4\/\">Part 4<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/2019\/08\/02\/nesting-common-tailorbirds-one-full-circle-part-5\/\">Part 5<\/a>; <a href=\u201dhttps:\/\/besgroup.org\/2019\/08\/09\/nesting-common-tailorbirds-one-full-circle-part-6\/\">Part 6<\/a>; <a href=\u201dhttps:\/\/besgroup.org\/2019\/08\/23\/nesting-common-tailorbirds-one-full-circle-part-7\/\u201d>Part 7<\/a>; <a href=\u201dhttps:\/\/besgroup.org\/2019\/08\/25\/nesting-common-tailorbirds-one-full-circle-part-8\/\u201d>Part 8<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/2019\/08\/31\/nesting-common-tailorbirds-one-full-circle-part-9\/\">Part 9<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/2019\/09\/04\/nesting-common-tailorbirds-one-full-circle-part-10\/\">Part 10<\/a>; Part 11: Faecal Sacs. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cExcrements of Common Tailorbird (<em>Orthotomus sutorius<\/em>) nestling accumulated inside gut and collected into a white membrane called faecal sac and is in-situ chick\u2019s rear end (below). <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/?attachment_id=58552\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-58552\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/PLATE-1-DSCN-3557.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"680\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-58552\" srcset=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/PLATE-1-DSCN-3557.jpg 680w, https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/PLATE-1-DSCN-3557-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/PLATE-1-DSCN-3557-590x590.jpg 590w, https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/PLATE-1-DSCN-3557-532x532.jpg 532w, https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/PLATE-1-DSCN-3557-266x266.jpg 266w, https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/PLATE-1-DSCN-3557-365x365.jpg 365w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFledging moments of a brood of three chicks-Osai1, Osai2 and Osai3, belonging to Otto (Male) and Satori (female), parents of Common Tailorbirds was close at hand. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cParenting birds were kept busy disposing faecal sacs to keep nest clean, odourless and rodent free. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cRemoval of faecal sac was at times aided by parenting bird pinching chick\u2019s rear end, to relax its sphincter muscles.  Subsequently, the sac with blackish tip got plucked out and discarded (below). <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/?attachment_id=58553\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-58553\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/PLATE-2-Montage.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"680\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-58553\" srcset=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/PLATE-2-Montage.jpg 680w, https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/PLATE-2-Montage-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/PLATE-2-Montage-590x590.jpg 590w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrequency of faecal sacs removal depended upon sustainable food amounts ingested.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSatori-female parenting Common Tailorbird was first spotted flying off with white, faecal sac on morning, third day of chick hatching. Day noted to be 8 May.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/?attachment_id=58554\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-58554\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/PLATE-3-MONTAGE.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"407\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-58554\" srcset=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/PLATE-3-MONTAGE.jpg 680w, https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/PLATE-3-MONTAGE-590x353.jpg 590w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFeeding and subsequent faecal sacs removing became routine chore.  Sometimes, parenting bird tarried patiently for nestlings to self-expel their poo (above, video below). <\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"590\" height=\"330\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/45q0IQl3Bkk\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOtto-male parenting bird also shared in waste disposal responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo nestlings eat their own poo? <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome bird species do but this was not observed during my two weeks monitoring of nesting Common Tailorbirds, of batch season &#8211; May 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJoin me to introduce and welcome a new member family of Otto and Satori in next episode\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>AVIAN WRITER DAISY O\u2019NEILL<\/strong><br \/>\nPENANG MALAYSIA<br \/>\n31st August 2019<\/p>\n<p>COPY OF COPYRIGHT ARTICLE AND ALL IMAGES &#8211; COURTESY OF DAISY O\u2019NEILL BIRD CONSERVATION FUND<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 6; Part 7; Part 8; Part 9; Part 10; Part 11: Faecal Sacs. \u201cExcrements of Common Tailorbird (Orthotomus sutorius) nestling accumulated inside gut and collected into a white membrane called faecal sac and is in-situ chick\u2019s rear end (below). \u201cFledging moments of a brood of three chicks-Osai1, Osai2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":58552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,37],"tags":[161],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58551"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}