Blue-capped Waxbill - chick development


Blue Capped Cordon Bleu Waxbills (Blue capped Waxbills/ Blue headed Waxbills/ Cordon Bleu Waxbills) Chick Development (all photos from fostered nests)

4 Blue-capped Waxbill eggs note grey colour of full eggs - 2 days before hatching (1 artificial canary egg for size reference) (nest B)	waxbill chick at day 1 probably only hatched an hour or even less note tufts of down - nearly dry (nest B)

chicks at day 2 (smaller one ~ day 1.5) note a lot of down - obviously now dry large egg is dummy canary - (for size reference) (nest B)	chicks at day 3 & ~2.5 upper chick hatched at least 12 hours earlier than sibbling slight size difference as a result - (nest B)

day 4 bigger 1 on its back in the scramble as the Bengalese left scrawny chicks but both survived - (nest B)	day 5 clumped - heads in to centre - note dark skin and tufts of brown egg is dummy canary - (for size reference) (nest A)

day 7 still clumped, pin feathers showing on wings note how much grown - compare size of dummy egg (nest A)	day 9 - not clumped - some facing outwards pin feathers developing on wings - eyes not quite open (they have grown - look at rel. size of dummy egg) (nest A)

Day 11 eyes open (nest A)	Day 13 last time will risk photographing this nest - don't want a 'burst'

3 days after 4 Blue capped waxbills fledged at day 18

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