Details of exhibit
- Exhibition:
- 1908 Fifty-third Annual Exhibition of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain
- Exhibit title:
- The domestic habits of the Song Thrush
- Exhibitor:
- A. Taylor
- Section:
- Scientific and Technical Photography and its Application to Processes of Reproduction
- Exhibit No.:
- 327
- Description:
- Materials for the nest were collected jointly by the cock and hen, but the latter constructed the nest, chiefly by using her feet and breast. So vigorously did she work that at intervals rests were necessary, and with her beak open she panted for breath. After the first egg was laid, the hen covered it at night; as incubation proceeded she frequently altered her position, and at night covered the eggs by lying on her side, and on one occasion she was on her back with feet upwards, fast asleep. After the nest was completed nothing was seen of the cock, though he could be heard singing near at hand. The day the young were hatched he arrived with food, a portion of which he gave to the female, and together they fed the chicks. The cock was smaller than the hen. The cock provided all the food until the young were old enough to do without the warmth of their mother, when she assisted in this. The young left the nest one at a time, and this was chiefly brought about through accident, as one after another attempted to stand up and flap its wings.
- Exhibit type:
- Photographic equipment and supplies
- Process:
- [Not Listed] ()
- Award:
- none
