Learn how parents bond in the best bird courtship rituals ... the female may wet her body in the ocean to cool her brood as she sits on the nest and shades her eggs or chicks from the sun with ...

Hungry as a whole brood, the outsize baby devours everything brought by its foster parents—in the photo ... observed the birds’ behavior in 2014 in Amsterdam, where she lives.

Brood parasitic birds lay their eggs in the nests of others ... nestlings can stimulate higher rates of provisioning by host parents by serving as a supernormal stimulus and enabling parasites ...

Some species of cowbirds don't appear to be the best parents. For example ... Both species are brood parasites - they lay their eggs in the nests of other birds. Brown-headed cowbirds are native to ...

Among species where the father rears the brood, the male Bronze winged jacana ... but is on the qui vive for danger (see the picture of the parent bird as well his young one on the alert at ...