Tajo Internacional (Natalio/M and Zica/F)

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FEEDING nr 5

the lizard family is on the table - they managed to eat more pieces now, the little one only few

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FEEDING nr 6





perfect "Mumbrella" (umbrella) service today to keep the little ones cool in the Spanish heat

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ZICA: from 12.23.57 - to 15.47.44 (out: 15.50.54)
INCUBATING (than egg and nest care: egg rolling, aerating, rearranging + preening and area monitoring)

incubation from – to
- 12.35.36 - 12.48.47 (egg talk)
- 13.30.39 - 13.44.04
- 13.47.57 - 13.53.12 (egg talk)
- 14.19.34 - 14.29.25
- 14.30.04 - 14.30.35
- 14.59.28 - 15.08.40 (egg talk)
- 15.18.21 - Z. was incubating in a defensive position – with her neck retracted and the feathers on her neck and around her bill ruffled

15.47.38 NATALIO landing, 15.47.44 Zica up - alarm call (!), repeatedly - 15.50.54 ZICA out


FEEDING nr 7

no way to the food for the little one (and bigger/hard? pieces for the chick near the camera, the second big chick is not very interested now)

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crab?



storklet pecked at the siblings

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there is progress

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FEEDING nr 8
only two ate something (one big sibling and the little one)

it is hard to reach te food


and hard to swallow it

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FEEDING nr 9
only 2 ate now, little one managed swallowing few pieces; the eldest chick ate one really big piece of something (crab?)

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the hole is moving