Avian post-nesting - Large Niltava and its fledglings

The resident pair of Large Niltava have been very productive this year at the port of Ulu Kali Genting. I was surprised that there were 3 juveniles coming out to feed at different time. At times the parent female will accompany the female juvenile at the port.

There were two female individual  and a male sibling that came out to feast on the mealworms . The parent male is not too happy the male juvenile still hanging around and every time it want to feed at the branch;  the parent male will chase away the latter from the port. However when the female one  come out, the parent  will not chase it way. From this behaviour I can only assume that the male offspring is being  force away to find its own territorial spot as the alpha male want the harlem to itself......




Female juvenile no 1

I only managed to shoot the male juvenile on 2 occasion in the open. Even then it was for less than 10-20 seconds. Most of the time it was a hit and run with  the parent ever ready to buzz it away. Poor thing.

Female juvenile no 2