Adult with Downy Chicks too Big to Brood (IMAGE)

University of Washington

Adult with Downy Chicks too Big to Brood

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Parents can only do so much to protect chicks this big and still covered with down when it starts to rain or the sun is too hot.

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D Boersma/U of Washington

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