Just Our Baby Murre Chick Doing Murre Chick Things!
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- Опубликовано: 20 окт 2024
- May our baby murre chick’s flippity flappies serve as your Monday Motivocean! She's growing up quick behind the scenes and getting more formurredable by the minute!
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Natural History
It might be easy to mistake this bird for a penguin, with its white belly, dark head and wings, and upright posture. But common murres aren't even related to penguins. Common murres are seabirds that spend eight or nine months of each year continuously at sea. Those short wings are perfect for diving and "flying" under water.
Conservation
Because seabirds spend so much time on the surface of the water, and because they congregate in large groups for nesting, they're threatened by oil spills. Murres dive deep-as deep as 330 feet (100 m). Unfortunately, this puts them in danger of being trapped in gill nets, where they drown.
Pesticide compounds found in the eggshells of murres in California pose a threat to future reproductive success.
Cool Facts
Common murres don't build nests like many birds. Instead, the females lay their eggs on bare rock or soil on steep cliffs. Fortunately, the pear-shaped-or pyriform-eggs stay quite safe there. If an egg is disturbed, it pivots around its pointed end, whereas an oval egg might roll off the edge of the cliff.
A murre chick leaves the cliff in dramatic style. Even without proper flight feathers, it hurls itself off the edge and glides down to sea-a drop of 800 to 1,000 feet (244 m to 304 m). The male murre escorts the chick out to sea, where he feeds and cares for it until the chick can fly on its own.
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Help us describe our baby murre chick's wings! Like for flippity, comment for flappity!
So cute!
It's flippity and flappity!
Flappity!
🦋🐻🐈👍😎🌈 What A Cutie! 🌈👍 Gotta B ' Flappity ' !! 😉🌈 ' Good Job ', Monterey Bay Aquarium!! 👍🐚 Lovely 2 View!!. 🌈😉🐻🦋🐈😎🌈
What a cute baby!
Once a month I´m like " This is the cutest animal video ever" But this is over the top!!
It's so cute flapping its wings ❤️
Aww! You’re so cute! Look at those lil itty bitty wings! What’s not to love?!
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😍Oh what a cutie! 😘Hello baby!🥰Thank you🌊 🐋Monterey Bay Aquarium🐬🦑🐠🦞🐳!
(You made my day with such cuteness!)
"Look, Mom! I can fly! Mom! Mommy! Hey MOOOOOMMMM!!! I said I can fly!
After a good meal and full belly
it's so fluffy I'm gonna die!!
I miss this place 😣. I hope to visit soon.
So cute 🥰
Oh my gosh! So cute! What are the requirements to work there?
Flippity Flappity- You Tube’s algorithm needs to recommend this channel to everybody already!
Nice 🌸
Monterey Aquarium is the best!
I'm first! It's sooo cute!
Where did he come from? I’m just curious about his backstory. Was he bred there, and if so where is his mother; or do you have people do feeding so he gets accustomed to them? Was he brought in as a rescue?
I appreciate all the information in the video description and I did read the part about conservation, and know I have so many more questions.🙂 I’ve been to a number of Aquariums...mostly on the east coast but I can’t recall if any of them had an aviary. When you have breeding pairs do you leave them in ...I’ll call it ‘gen pop’ for lack of a better term - and then keep an eye on things? Do you move the nest and mom to a more secure area where they would be safe from other birds in the aviary and then take babies away to do checks on them to make sure that they’re gaining weight/healthy? You stated that they’re not related to penguins, which to my knowledge typically only have one chick, would this little guy have siblings or does this bird only lay one egg?
I should really go to the website to see if I can get answers there, but would appreciate any additional info about this little cutie.
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Why so much flapping?
Gotta get those muscles developed to take flight!
@@MontereyBayAquarium wow! I never would have thought of that! Thanks!
I almost feel like you're not doing a good enough job if you don't feed the chicks from your own mouths. Or, even better, chew the fish up first. Is there REALLY any such thing as being too nice to baby birds? By the way, these are adorable.
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Let’s not..lol
Lol. I will exchange one of my dogs for your Murre chick!