A beautiful photograph of a very rare white swiftlet in her nest.
She is said to bring a flow of good luck to seven generations. The house that she stays will always be full of nests.
However, in this particular case it was not so.
The person who gave me this beautiful picture informed me that this particular swiftlet was actually a baby bird.
Initially it was with black colored and when she grows the feathers changed color.
Her eyes were red.
The last time they saw the Princess was when she took her maiden flight out of the BH. She never came back until now.
Might have been caught by predators or elope with a newly found male swift.
The house owner until today yearn to see this swiftlet for one more time.
Told me to write the story in my blog and who knows the Princess might read it and come back home...
A very sad story but in nature we just let them go and just hope that they will one day come back home....
4 comments:
Wow... so beautiful....
i think she don't hav internet at home.. no coverage...so can't read this blog ehehe
ssam,
Well maybe the owner should sent her an SMS?
Hope she will come back to her birth place. Perhaps one day she will.
Harry,remember I ever told u that ALBINO is a defect in animals.Most albino with red eyes will not be able to survive in the wild on their own.Their eye-sight is especially many times poorer than their normal siblings.I strongly believe this albino SF could have succumbed to hunger or fallen prey to the hawk within the 1st week after becoming independent.Too bad,this is the law of survival in the wild.Only the fittest survives.
Dave
Harry,
Tell the BH owner of this Albino not to worry that he would miss his Albino forever.Within a year or two with the following experiment,another Albino will appear if the parents are still around as they carry the Albino genes.Ask the owner to check constantly at the same nest site where the previous Albino was born.(If he wants to fasten the process,he can apply the cross-fostering method,i.e.transfer the new eggs to others and leave the nest untouched,within approx.15 days,another new pair of eggs will be laid.Continue for 4 to 6 pairs of eggs before letting them incubate once.) If another Albino is produced among the eggs ,check and hope it is a white feather with BLACK eyes.If so,then its survival chance is much higher than the red eyes but still less than the normal colour type.
At least,it has perfect eye sight and stronger to forage food to avoid died of hunger but could still be easily singled out by predators among the flock of blacks.25% of the black siblings from same parents are carriers of the Albino genes which can produce Albino one day with some luck.
Please request the owner to report back to confirm my theory.Good experiment.
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