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Dollarbird regurgitating

To: David Clark <>
Subject: Dollarbird regurgitating
From: Michael Lenz <>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 06:48:31 +0000
HANZAB mentions that Dollarbirds pick up pebbles to aid digestion. Perhaps the young was given its load of gravel.

Michael Lenz

On Tue, 29 Jan 2019 at 17:33, David Clark <> wrote:
A number of years ago we watched a pair of dollar birds feeding a juvenile. They would catch a cicada fly to the juvenile, turn the cicada round and feed it to the juvenile head first. A couple of times the juvenile dropped the cicada and the adult would fly down and catch it and feed it again. Always head first and always whole insect.
David

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> On 29 Jan 2019, at 1:21 pm, John Brannan <> wrote:
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> I was watching an adult Dollarbird feed a fairly recently fledged youngster up at the Pinnacle NR this morning, and was a bit surprised to see the adult regurgitating food to give to the chick. Until the parent arrived, I had assumed that they would be feeding the chick whole (undigested) insects. Is this a normal thing for Dollarbirds? I’ve seen parrots do this sort of thing of course, but was surprised to see it in a bird that is primarily an insectivore.
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> John Brannan
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