Passeriformes - Eurylaimidae - Cymbirhyncus macrorhynchos (Takau Hitam-Merah)
Utterly unmistakable inhabitant of waterside and riverine lowland evergreen forests, mangroves, and plantations. Midnight black with long white slashes on each wing, wine-red underparts, and a black chinstrap. Bulbous bill is glowingly powder-blue with warm tinges of orange and greenish-yellow. During the breeding season, the pendulous nests of this species can be quite obvious, hanging over forested waterways. Voice is nasal and generally unpleasant-sounding, consisting of odd low mechanical rasps.
(eBird)
After being coaxed and starved of food for five over hours, the young finally fledged.
Unlike other fledgling, its flight path was not a straightforward one, perhaps due to the location of the nest or the nature of the nest. It struggled to exit the nest, climbed to the top and finally flew in the direction of its parent.
A parent, perhaps relieved that its chick finally had the courage to fledge, flew in as soon as the chick reached the nest top, to fly off as if to nudge the chick in that direction, which it naturally follow suit.
It fell to the ground possibly due to weak grip, being starved for more than 5 hours long.
Note:
14July - parent spotted brooding
28July - feeding of 2 chicks
03Aug - one chick fledged just after noon (the other presumably the day before as no sign of it this same morning)
