Chick Diet

Which is the only bird species found in India which does not sit on and incubate its eggs? The chicks never see the parents and are capable of finding food and surviving by themselves immediately after hatching.

Himalayan Monal

Indian Peafowl

Nicobar Megapode

Koklaas Pheasant

Unlike the precocial chicks, chicks of some bird species hatch relatively undeveloped. Such chicks need to be under the care of their parents for weeks to months. They are called:

Altricial nestlings

Weak nestlings

Social nestlings

Dependent nestlings

Parents of pigeons, doves, flamingos and penguins feed their chicks ‘crop milk’. What is Crop Milk?

Like mammals, milk produced through mammary gland by parent birds to feed their chicks

A rich, thick liquid substance made of cells lining the inside of the parent’s digestive system

Liquid made using crops (plants) by parents to feed chicks

Regurgitated food which is fed to the chicks

In pigeons, doves and flamingos, which parent is responsible for feeding the chicks 'crop milk'?

Only male parent

Only female parent

Both

Either male or female, but only one parent feeds crop milk to the chicks

Bulbuls typically eat fruits and most sunbirds feed on nectar. What do they feed their chicks?

They feed them adult food

They feed them crop milk

They feed them adult food plus insects

They feed them only insects

Parents always feed all their chicks equally. Yes or No?

Yes, they love all their chicks equally and always feed all chicks equal portions

No, it depends

No, they always feed the weakest chick the most

No, they always feed the healthiest chick the most

Chick Diet

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