As regular CFZ-watchers will know, for some time Corinna has been doing a column for Animals & Men and a regular segment on On The Track... particularly about out-of-place birds and rare vagrants. There seem to be more and more bird stories from all over the world hitting the news these days so, to make room for them all - and to give them all equal and worthy coverage - she has set up this new blog to cover all things feathery and Fortean.

Sunday 16 August 2015

Watch a rare breed of Asian duckling hatching at Chester Zoo

Tuesday, August 11, 2015


If you like small, cute, fluffy things, you’ll love this.

Keepers at Chester Zoo have captured incredible footage of a rare Asian Baer’s pochard duckling hatching from its shell inside an incubator.

Just a few hundred of the ducklings remain in the wild, while around 250 live in conservation around the world.

Chester Zoo’s curator of birds, Andrew Owen, said: “Our two new white-winged ducklings are very important birds given that their numbers are extremely low in the wild. Our dedicated bird team will be keeping a very close eye on them to make sure they make it through to adulthood.

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