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How Birds Train their Young
Devotion of parents. While caring for their young, birds show a most remarkable devotion, seldom deserting their nest, regardless of what may happen. They show reckless courage in trying to protect their young from intruders, sometimes even striking a person with their bills. Care after leaving the nest. After the young leave the nest, they must be taught many lessons before they are able to care for themselves. One of the first lessons learned is how to fly.
The parents will often hold the food in front of the young and fly from branch to branch to induce the young to do the same. The young must also be taught where to find their own food and how to pick it up. When the young first leave the nest, they do not even know how to pick up an insect. If food is brought and placed beside them, they stand with heads thrown back and mouths wide open, expecting to be fed as they always have been while in the nest, and make no attempt to pick up the food. The parents teach the young by doing the action over and over again before them, and then leaving the young beside the food for a long time. And besides these there are many other lessons the young birds must learn.
This period of schooling is very brief, probably only a few weeks, and in the case of birds that rear two broods, the first brood is hardly properly taught before the second brood is started.
Enemies. During the time that the young are in the nest and for a short time just after leaving it, the birds are exposed to many dangers and fall victims to their many enemies. Probably only a small proportion of young birds ever reach maturity. From the time the first egg is laid, the difficulties arise. Some enemies destroy the eggs; such as the crow, blue jay, and red squirrel. And sometimes boy egg- collectors may devastate a whole neighborhood.
When the young are hatched, they are utterly helpless and fall a prey to any enemy that can reach the nest. Undoubtedly the worst enemy of nesting birds is the cat. It finds the nests on the ground and climbs to nests situated in trees, and easily catches the young 1)irds just as they are learning to fly, and may even kill the old birds while they are defending their young. Another very destructive enemy is the squirrel, which is able to reach almost any nest. Then, too, many birds are destroyed by unfavorable weather, by hailstorms and cold rainstorms, which chill the birds and reduce the food-supply to the starvation point. Ground-nesting birds on the farm are exposed to the dangers of mowing and other farm operations. Mr. Frank M. Chapman has well said, “With such an array of adverse conditions and relentlcss foes, the bird which reaches maturity may be said to have escaped nine tenths of the dangers to which bird flesh is heir.”
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