Voice

Eating a swamp eel

Voice

Male singing

Parental care

Feeding

The upper part of the eye of this fledling is swollen. Most certainly it has been attacked by a virus or a mite etc., but it is healthy enough to exhibit the typical food solicitation display to call its mother's attention. It is attentively following her movements, ready to open the bill and increasingly flapping its wings as the adult gets near. The delivered food may be Guinea grass seeds, their favourite grass

Parental care

Feeding

Eating Guinea grass Panicum maximum