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TRANSCRIPT
– [Announcer] For the Crimson Knot chicks, the primary few weeks of life are particularly perilous.
(hen chirping) Solely a couple of quarter of them will stay lengthy sufficient to make the journey south.
– [Jan] He is going.
There he’s.
There we go.
Do your greatest, man.
– [Announcer] However Jan’s predominant concern is that even people who survive might be smaller than they must be.
– [Jan] Three weeks after the snow has melted, there may be the insect peak on which the chicks can feed.
With the speedy warming of the Arctic, the summer season has already began.
These bugs are rising earlier from the soil.
However what the birds don’t do is alter their journey schedule.
So these days these birds within the Arctic arrive too late for the chicks to utilize this burst of bugs.
And they also haven’t got good rising alternatives, and that makes these birds smaller than they really ought to be.
(hen wings flapping) – [Announcer] For the Godwit chicks too, it is a race in opposition to time.
– As soon as the chicks hatch, each dad and mom care for the chicks for not less than the primary three weeks or so that they are round.
However then in some unspecified time in the future, the feminine will really take off and it will simply be left as much as the male.
And the male will see the chicks by way of to fledgling earlier than he too takes off.
After which the chicks are left on their own.
(birds chirping) (wind whooshing) – As the times shorten within the Arctic, the younger shorebirds embark on their first and most harmful migration.
Their maiden flight is a miracle and a thriller.
They are going dwelling.
A house they’ve by no means seen, however someway all the time recognized.
– The primary southward migration to me simply appears epically troublesome.
You are making these unbelievable flights having by no means performed it earlier than, and that alone, if you happen to did not survive that, it would not shock me.
After which while you throw on high of it the threats that birds are going through at every level in the course of the course of their migration, hurricanes, droughts within the Mid-Continent, looking.
(gun booms)
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