";s:4:"text";s:4004:" If you want to spot a Grey Fantail, try calling out to them. The bottom of the nest is drawn out into a long stem, resembling that of a wine-glass. of its call, and sometimes humming or kissing sounds.To attract this bird to your garden, place a small bird bath next to a dense bush. Although endemic, the New Zealand Fantail is closely related to the Australian Grey Fantail, and therefore shares a fairly recent evolutionary history with native, mammalian predators. The nest is to be found near its food supply (for the young will make incessant demands on the exertions of the parent birds), and it seeks a sheltered position where insects 'most do congregate;' it must at the same time afford 'ample room and verge enough' for the numberless evolutions to be performed by the rapid fluttering of two pairs of most active wings, which are soon to be fanning the lazy air. Both parents share nest-building, incubation of the eggs and feeding of the young when they hatch.The Grey Fantail occasionally visits densely-planted urban gardens, particularly during the winter migration. Fantails are one of New Zealand’s smallest birds and build small, light nests that could be placed beyond reach of the larger ship rat. It is made of fine grass bound together with large amounts of spider web. a tree or bush. Dad is the only breeding male, and the rest of the flock can contain up to six helpers, including adult sons born in previous seasons. The birds form compact, cup-shaped nests, usually in the forks of trees, made from moss, bark and fibre, and often completed with spider's web.
They also give the bird information about how far away the insect is, what position the insect is in when it is caught, and also about They line the nest with feathers and fur to keep their fledglings warm against the last of the winter chills.The parents share the duties of sitting on their two to four eggs for about two weeks, and both feed the chicks. Smaller.. A garden with small birds visiting it is a healthy garden.