Little Friarbird (chicks)

Description:

These little ones are less than but definitely not older than 18 days old. "Juvenile little friarbirds tend to have a paler appearance with a lighter facial skin. The chin throat and in some cases, upper breast tends to appear as a washed yellow with yellow spots on side of breast. The terming ‘citregularis’ is a descriptive term frequently used to describe young birds which have a yellow fore neck. The tail feathers also tend to appear as a shallower cut unlike the adult little friarbirds." (Wiki)

Habitat:

Sitting in a nest (check out this little video of them in the nest: https://youtu.be/2LnOIOj2FsM ) that is suspended from a forked branch in a tree near the front gate of the rubbish dump.

Notes:

First time seeing Little Friarbird chicks!!! Eighteen days after my mum first spotted the nest with two eggs in it (see spotting: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/184... ) and seeing the female sitting on the nest (see spotting pic 3: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/334... ) we came back to find the two eggs had hatched! I then returned about a week later and the nest was empty. It is thought that the local Pied Butcherbirds (Cracticus nigrogularis picatus), which also included a young one, had probably taken them.