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The male is pressing the nesting materials by his chest to shape the nest.

But the female didn't put the twigs into nest. She probably just instigate the male to initiate the nesting work sitting beside the nest.

The female is collecting nesting materials.

The male is putting a twig into nest.

Only male initiate the construction of nest. Here the male is collecting nesting materials.

Then gently gave the caterpillar to female.

2. Male came to her and waited a moment.

I observed two type of courtship feeding.

1. The female is pulling/kind of snatching a caterpillar from the male's mouth. Although the male first came to feed her. ( female is at left in frame)

This is the Female OHT

This is the 7th year since I have been observing them. Here is the Male OHT.

Most of the monogamous birds like Blue-throated Barbet, both male and female contribute in nest building. Here the female blue-throated Barbet is engaged finishing the egg chamber by smoothening the...

Crested Bunting (Male) from Manas NP, December 2022
Canon EOS 7D + Canon 500mm f4
ISO 640, 1/320, f4, full frame

Call of Puff throated Babbler from Manas NP. December 2022. Mobile phone recording.

Many years ago in Mangalajodi.
Canon EOS 7D + Canon 500 f4 + Monopod
ISO 250, 1/1600, f 7.1, Full frame

Yes the male is glued here. The females are bigger than male in Himalayan toad. Thanks for your comment.
Samrat

Saw this mating seen of Himalayan Toad at a village named Tinchuley near Takdah forest in Darjeeling. The mating lasted for three days. The amplexus of Toads are about ten types.

1. Inguinal -...

Observed again after 2017 a very rare courtship behaviour of Orange headed thrush. The nesting material sharing behaviour. Very minimum knowledge we have about this behaviour. Honourable viewer may...

The female put the nesting materials on her nest.

The female took nesting materials from the male.

The male is giving nesting materials to the female.

Couple formation completed on first week of May 2022. Here I observed the male brought nesting materials in his beak to nest and the female who was already there in the nest, was begging for nesting...

There was no courtship feeding observed.

The Female caught a cricket by herself.

Like past year the Female have come here in my village at same place.
20th April, 2022

"Woodpecker feathers are some of the most durable in the bird world; and they need to be as they are rubbed against rough tree bark everyday.... Woodpeckers come in many colours but most have black...