Friday, December 12, 2008

Capricorn 10: An albatross feeding from the hand.



From DragonHouse Studios:
This winter, yes we have a sort of winter, the Albies were doing their annual family thing as usual. Brenda, the biologist that Marilou works with, noticed a chick whom had lost one of its parents. Knowing it would need two parents feeding it in order to grow properly, the proven answer is to transfer the chick to a nesting pair of adults that had lost their egg. Below, Marilou is the proud temporary parent of this youngster on its way to a new nest. The transfer was successful. The chick is growing very well. It should fledge in July with the rest of this year's batch.


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