A bird that stays with their young for a while? (1 Viewer)

[beccayoung726]

This is probably a very silly question, but I'm wondering what type of bird stays with their babies for a significant amount of time..?

I tried googling it, but I got nothing. So here I am :-O

 

[fugl]

This is probably a very silly question, but I'm wondering what type of bird stays with their babies for a significant amount of time..?

The Canada Goose for one. The young tend to stay with the parents until the onset of the next breeding season. The young of most other birds normally become independent of parental care by the fall of the year in which they were born. But there's a lot of variation & Canada Geese aren't the only exceptions.

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[beccayoung726]

The Canada Goose for one. The young tend to stay with the parents until the onset of the next breeding season. The young of most other birds normally become independent of parental care by the fall of the year in which they were born. But there's a lot of variation & Canada Geese aren't the only exceptions.

s

okay, thank you so much!

 

[McMadd]

Kakapo - over 1 year

 

[KC Foggin]

Well just from observing over the years, it would seem that the Yellow-bellied Sapsucker and the Baltimore Orioles hang on to their young through the first winter.

 

[Simon Wates]

On wintering grounds here in southern Portugal both Sandwich and Caspian Tern adults are frequently closely followed and "squeaked" at by 1st winter birds, presumably their siblings still begging for a free dinner.

 

[Wildmoreway]

In my experience Herring Gulls and Great Black-back Gulls can stay with and be fed by their parents well into the following year.

 

[delia todd]

Are there not a few species where the young from the previous year stay around to help raise the next generation?

D

 

[davercox]

In my experience Herring Gulls and Great Black-back Gulls can stay with and be fed by their parents well into the following year.

You may well be right, speckled wood, but it isn't always the parents.
Yesterday in your neck of the woods (Torre Abbey Sands), a 1st-winter Herring Gull was squeaking to be fed by any passing gull, including several sub-adults. (Admittedly they didn't feed it ).

On the original question, certainly swans, geese and cranes stay as a family through the winter, and set out on the spring migration together. I do not know when and where the adults free themselves from the youngsters.

 

[Bird_Bill]

Trumpeter swans here in US stay with cygnets through winter until return to
summering areas north the following spring.Not uncommon for generations to
reunite on wintering grounds as a loose knit family group.

 

[Allen S. Moore]

Are there not a few species where the young from the previous year stay around to help raise the next generation?

D

I have heard that this is the case for a number of species in Australia, kookaburras, for example.

Allen

 

[fugl]

Are there not a few species where the young from the previous year stay around to help raise the next generation.

"Helping at the nest" is a well-known phenomenon in birds & has been much studied & speculated about. Here's the URL to the brief wikipedia account..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helpers_at_the_nest

 

[Carles Oliver]

It's for my experience that juvenile Long-tailed Tits spend the winter with their parents in big flocks that are joining several family groups.

 

[beccayoung726]

thanks everyone!!

 

[kennethwfd]

On the original question, certainly swans, geese and cranes stay as a family through the winter, and set out on the spring migration together. I do not know when and where the adults free themselves from the youngsters.

from my observations of mute swans (UK), they stay as a family unit until about now, as the cygnets gain their adult plumage, they seem to get gradually more independent and have gone by the time the adults are planning their next brood. In fact, adults can be quite aggressive to other swans on their territory

As the original question was birds that stay together, sparrows, finches, and starlings - I've also noted tits as mentioned above - form flocks out of the breeding season, perhaps more safety in numbers, the winter of 1962 was one of the harshest, with snow lying on the ground for over 3 months. During this time, no less than 50 wrens gathered in a tit nestbox for mutual warmth

Birds of a feather flock together, as the old saying goes

 

[Gaz Shilton]

Are there not a few species where the young from the previous year stay around to help raise the next generation?

D

I think Long Tailed Tits do this.

 

[Welsh Peregrine]

Cassowary is another species with long term paternal care.

 

[Jos Stratford]

Crab Plovers, flocks almost always seem to be collections of adults with begging youngsters in tow.

 

[gene-v]

Crows are very social and many remain with families for years.

Gene
birdwatching-birds.blogspot.com

 

[David FG]

Are there not a few species where the young from the previous year stay around to help raise the next generation?

D

I seem to remember watching (a long time ago) a documentary about (I think) Ground Hornbills in which this happened.