The tiger bird - The silver mother and the killer child

In the role of motherhood, the howling cultivars do not know how to hatch eggs and go to hatch. Their children later defeated the opponent from the moment they saw the sunlight.

Rainy season is a great time for new life to begin to revive on tropical rain forests. Plant species on their new green shirt and somewhere in the forest, the wetlands, each dust mop, reed also grow themselves. It is an ideal nesting place for some of the Locustella breeds of marshes.

It is also an appropriate time for the howling tufts to perform the " thanksgiving natural function" that their ancestors passed on in the struggle for survival. Firstly, he howled to find a nest of warblers that spawned and rewarded himself with an egg of this bird. After she was full, the mother laid another egg on it. The egg has nearly the size of warbler eggs with a very similar pattern that makes the warbler couple think it's their eggs.

Endynamis scolopacea - Maternal Warbler(Photo: Phung My Trung)

After the incubation period thanks to the warbler, even though the newly hatched one is still red, the cultivating child shows the bravery of an enemy. He quickly used his muscular strength, wings and back to push the newly hatched warbler and the rest of the eggs out of the nest. Its conspiracy is to monopolize the food source that nourishes the parents of the parents of warblers.

After completing the "mission" , it grew up very quickly and cried all day from the source of food from small parents. In order to meet the need for a child to eat more wildly than their parents many times, the injecting couple must work hard to find food.

When you have enough feathers, enough wings, you will fly away, abandon those who nourish it. Someday, maybe it will come back to rely on the "adoptive parents" nest . The "spawning" phenomenon of the tufts is thought to be bizarre in the natural world.

The mother is not capable of feeding offspring because the mother bird is deeply ingrained, eating venomous worms. For mature species, their bodies will be immune to the toxin of the poison. While cultivating howling, there is no immune system, so if you eat poison, it may die. So I have to ask other birds to raise their children. This is also a special piece in the vivid picture of the struggle to survive and maintain the species of all species in the wild nature.

Howling children scream and demand food from "adoptive parents".(Photo: Phung My Trung)

Tuynam is called scientific name Endynamis scolopacea. The male has a black feather with dark blue light. The female feathered black and white speckled. The female head is slightly lighter and more aggressive than the male. The young bird has black hair all over the body, but after the first molt it has turned into an almost female feather. The male has a red plumage for a while and then gradually changes to an adult coat with red eyes, a blue-gray beak, a black beak root, a gray lead leg.

Cultivation is distributed in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, southeast China and Malaysia. In Vietnam, tufts are distributed throughout the plains and midlands. In winter, people rarely meet this species because most of them fly south to avoid cold.