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In Saimaa, the spectators of WWF’s nature live got to experience a special moment last Friday when a foreign chick popped into the nest of a goose family.
The mosquito camera follows a family of two adults and three boys. The family had a normal day going on. The parents were looking for food when a completely foreign chick popped into the nest. The video shows how the mother was joined by four chicks. After a while, the host also arrived at the fish catch with the nest. However, the visitor was not driven out of the nest, but was allowed to attend the meal moment.
According to Raimo Uusitalo, a nature enthusiast and who maintains his own osprey camera, the chick has come from the nest to look for food.
Uusitalo believes that the chick has strayed from her own nest or something has happened in the nest, which is why she has set off in her hunger.
– I can’t say what happened in that nest before the chick took off from there, says Uusitalo.
According to Uusitalo, which has been ringing mosquitoes for more than 50 years, the visitor is this summer’s chick and probably a female bird that left a neighboring nest.
They differ from other birds of prey in their sociality
According to Uusitalo, adult owls separate foreign chicks from their own, but in some cases can adopt a foreign chick as their own. He has witnessed situations like this before.
The Osprey Foundation’s Markku Hyvärinen says that the osprey is a social bird of prey. Their visits to other nests are quite common.
– Now that the young ospreys are airworthy, they set out to migrate. The boy may have left the neighboring nest and noticed that there are friends there.
Watch the video above as a young visitor attends a meal of a family of geese.
Source: WWF