15 July 2022
After weeks of being fed by their dad and mom, child birds’ first huge problem is to feed themselves. What’s edible? Methods to chomp it? Methods to catch it?
“When open my beak the meals goes in. Doesn’t it?“
Not QUITE the way it works, little chook ?@NearBirdStudios pic.twitter.com/ILMJlTmUVe
— BBC Earth (@BBCEarth) November 16, 2018
“Is that this find out how to do it?” Juvenile red-tailed hawks observe pouncing at Tompkins Sq. Park, New York Metropolis in June 2022.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIrskMU3bmI
“What is that this?” say two child burrowing owls. Infants, it’s meals!
Please watch these child burrowing owls being Bizarre Little Guys. I promise you’ll not remorse it
Shared with permission from @/avianbehavior on IG pic.twitter.com/flrcSL3zBh
— Kaeli Swift, Ph.D. (@corvidresearch) June 30, 2022
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