Baby Finches from egg to a little bird, growing up and flying away. One baby bird dead.

[@jayhouse3149]

The 2 larger eggs were entirely a different bird specie and their diet most likely insects! Finches' primary diet is seeds and fruit/berries.

[@stienven9355]

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[@marianadiah4131]

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[@shannonspage9360]

Some stupid cowbird decided to lay it’s eggs in the nest of a seed eating birds. Cowbirds don’t have a crop like finches and will eventually choke from their style of feeding their chicks. They regurgitate a seed paste into the chicks mouths and they have a crop it fills. Cowbirds are designed to eat things like bugs and worms , the seed paste eventually fills and hardens in their throat and they choke to death. So it was a bad nest selection for the parasite cowbird mother that laid her two eggs in they wrong type of birds nest. At around 10:18 you already see the one cowbird chick that hatched starting to choke on a mouth filled with chewed seeds it can’t swallow as it slowly loses all the water out of the paste. It’s trying to swallow, finch chicks have a different feeding style and they don’t swallow, the feed from the parent birds fills right into their crop. You can see when the mother finch has to remove the dead cowbird chick that is has a giant enlarged throat at the bottom of the head, that is the huge lump of seeds that hardened into a total blockage and caused it to suffocate during the night.

[@cindyliu5608]

I was not be able to figure out the reason the death of baby bird. Thanks for your explanation.

[@shannonspage9360]

@@cindyliu5608 here is journal reference with studies finding the inability of cowbird chicks survival in the nest of house finches. All studies and research found cowbird chicks death at 100% in the nests of house finches. The cowbird chick survived an average of 3.2 days in the house finch nests. sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/condor/v098n02/p0253-p0258.pdf

[@jayhouse3149]

The Brown-headed and Bronzed Cowbirds tend to forage on similar diets, consisting primarily of vegetative foods and insects. In summer and during the breeding season they are particularly fond of a variety of insects and larvae, especially beetles, caterpillars, bugs, grasshoppers, and spiders. At these times of the year, insects provide for more than half of their overall intake. From late fall until the following spring, the cowbirds diets are mostly seeds. Seeds of dandelion, knotweed, ambrosia, and the grass Echinochloa are staples in their diet, yet they cherish yellow foxtail grass above all else. Yellow foxtail grass has been referred to as the cowbirds "staff of life". Fruits are an important, but minor, part of their diet. They seem to prefer blackberries, huckleberries, wild cherries, grapes, and cedar berries. In farmland areas, especially where the crops grown include corn, maize (milo), wheat, oats, barley and other grains, cowbirds tend to join larger mixed flocks of other blackbirds and starlings causing the farmers considerable grief. Large flocks can strip crops and reduce significantly the total yield. wildbirdsonline.com

[@shannonspage9360]

@@jayhouse3149 if you read the referenced journal article I sited in one of the above responses the research findings were that the cowbird chick died 100% of the time when placed in the nest of the house finch. They use crop feeding with their chicks which isn’t a compatible style of feeding for the cowbird chicks. As the parent birds of more ideal nests evolve and are able to identify the cowbird eggs and remove them, the cowbird female tries to possibly find other bird species to place her eggs with. Obviously with sample expansion not all species of birds will be a compatible match which can be for various reasons at a whole. Cowbird numbers have been declining so new species testing by the cowbird parent seems to be warranted on the part of the female cowbird.

[@thomasmleahy6218]

In Northern Illinois, we see the brown headed cowbird, the brown showing as iridescent, like the blue-purple on our local crows, not visible at all angles.

[@EverydayCinematicBirds]

Very interesting to watch! Nice video!

[@cindyliu5608]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@evahorvath8135]

Very nice videó 🐣

[@thomasmleahy6218]

5/22 None of the chicks are cowbirds, they're getting big, big enough to fledge real soon.

[@chalhmingacolney5424]

Interesting to watch !

[@nukeyourhouse]

Odd. Normally baby birds disturb me, but these don't seem to as much. Must be because they are fuzzier.

[@thomasmleahy6218]

Hatched, not born. Born refers to live birth. One died during night? Did the other birds take all the food and crowd it out? The dead chick was fairly large, I wonder what happened. There were 5 eggs in the nest, what happened to the last egg, as there were 4 chicks feeding. After fledging, one egg left in nest.

[@NaryaniMistry]

They look like a little old Pearson with that downy feathers

[@thomasmleahy6218]

CHICKS, they're called chicks, not children or babies. These other words are used to define infant humans. Humans.

[@Dusty-f9e]

What is that horrendous noise?

[@philkenseben7]

I’m not an expert on birds by no means but What eggs are the other two because those definitely aren’t finches.

[@jayhouse3149]

Young birds are itchy from nest mites, possibly from zero nest hygiene and decomposing poop.

[@thomasmleahy6218]

They 'inherit' mites, fleas, whatever the parents have just by their very close contact. Do the finches remove waste?? Haven't seen any finch videos, they're not well lit, can't see what's happening. Too dark.

[@thomasmleahy6218]

Mites jump from parents to chick, just like fleas.

[@margheritaformicola8623]

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[@AloxMasters]

huevos de distintos color y tamaño? son el mismo pájaro? la misma raza?

[@cindyliu5608]

Some birds lay the egg in the other bird's nest, you can google "Parasitic birds"

[@AloxMasters]

@@cindyliu5608 tendré que volver a ver el video porque no recuerdo si los pichones eran diferentes entre si

[@honeybadger8942]

@@cindyliu5608 Are they cuckoo eggs ?

[@shannonspage9360]

This is in America somewhere, they are cowbird eggs. Cowbirds will not survive in the nest of seed eating birds, like finches

[@nevermind5321]

I feel so sad for the chick that died in a horrible way. TG the other speckled egg never hatched! Too bad its real mother dumped her eggs in the finches nest. 😧 The finches mother thought that was her baby that died! 🙏🐦

[@thomasmleahy6218]

Chick, not baby. The finch did not recognize it as an invader, just a dead chick. These birds don't think or contemplate, they are reacting on instinct.

[@bruceli853]

How come 2 eggs is more bigger than the other 3 eggs???

[@PalomaKelley]

A cowbird probably layer her eggs in the finches nest. Cowbirds are known for laying her eggs in another species nest, that way they will be raised by the finch mom. Lazy bird lol

[@shannonspage9360]

They are cowbird eggs but cowbirds will never survive in a finch nest. They will always end up choking to death by their method of feeding their chicks.

[@susancrone1612]

@@shannonspage9360What? Never heard of that! Many cowbirds have been raised by “foster “ parents. Otherwise how could there be so many around.?

[@shannonspage9360]

@@susancrone1612 I tried posting a link to the journal article for the study. The title is “UNSUITABILITY OF THE HOUSE FINCH AS A HOST OF THE BROWN-HEADED COWBIRD” . The findings were 100% mortality of cowbird chick brood parasite when hosted by house finch

[@williamstewart1883]

Those may not have been finch chicks, but cowbird chicks.

[@thomasmleahy6218]

No way of knowing till they get older, they all look pretty much alike. That may explain the missing 5th egg. If those 2 larger and differently colored egg were nest parasites, mama cowbird may have taken it, or the parents may have removed it if it didn't hatch.

[@merylunaromo2553]

Eran 3 de un color y 2 de otro, y sobrevieron los tres de la misma especie.

[@orbelinavides9053]

Eran 4 blancos y 2 pringuiados serian de la misma pajarita ?

[@dindoborromeo8839]

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[@barbarastepien-foad4519]

How lovely to watch one bird feed the other whilst iftis keeping the clutch warm.... Animals have more humanity than humans

[@thomasmleahy6218]

Nonsense.

[@sunnykim4093]

워째, 알이 두 종류냐? 언놈이 남의 새집에 지 알을 갖다가 놓은 거냐?

[@kahinakan7624]

Why the eggs are different in color and shape 🙄

[@shantakidd6230]

Brood parasitism. Basically another bird laid it's eggs in this finch nest. Seems to be cowbird eggs based on the spots. Cowbirds are a protected native species in the USA so it is actually illegal to remove their eggs from a nest if you find them. But even if it was legal, you shouldn't anyway as some cowbirds monitor their chicks in a nest and have been known to become hostile toward a nest if their chick dies and will attack the remaining eggs and chicks to ensure the nest fails.

[@shannonspage9360]

Cowbirds will not survive if laid in the nest of seed eating birds. So the mother of these parasitic cowbird eggs made a bad choice…no wonder they are not surviving well. Robins had already evolved to identify and remove the parasite cowbird eggs on their own.

[@silviakliebs4248]

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