Quick Meal And Brooding For Slate-throated Redstart Nestlings –Sept. 11, 2017

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At seven days post-hatch, the Slate-throated Redstart nestlings' eyes have started to open! The parents are playing their part too, working hard to keep their young well-fed and warm. Here, an adult arrives with a winged insect before settling on the nest for a short brooding bout. **************************************************** Watch the cam live, 24/7, at http://allaboutbirds.org/redstarts The Slate-throated Redstart cam is situated on the expansive grounds of the Inkaterra Machu Picchu Pueblo Hotel (http://www.inkaterra.com/inkaterra/inkaterra-machu-picchu-pueblo-hotel/the-experience/) in Machupicchu Pueblo, Peru, situated a few thousand feet below the ruins of Machu Picchu. The small roofed nest is a little under a meter off the ground in a thicket of common ivy that covers a stone wall on the property. In studies of Slate-throated Redstarts in the cloud forests of Costa Rica, it took an average of 14 days of incubation before eggs hatched, followed by an average of 11 days until fledging. As this nest hatched on the morning of September 4, we would expect the young to fledge sometime around September 15. The biggest challenge to seeing these birds fledge isn't even the technical aspect of the cam: it's the high chance of the nest being predated or failing prior to fledging. Across the tropics, the rate of nest failure in open cup nesting birds can be 80% or higher! This figure holds for Slate-throated Redstart species that have been studied in other locales, a

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