スミソニアン国立動物園のインスタグラム(smithsonianzoo) - 4月27日 06時14分

🎊🐣The 🇬🇺 Guam #kingfisher is extinct in the wild and there are only about 140 living in human care. But now there is one more! A chick hatched at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, #Virginia April 22. Keepers are hand-rearing the chick because its parents were not properly incubating the egg. The tiny featherless chick will remain in its temperature-controlled incubator until it develops its brilliant blue and orange plumage and is able to regulate its body temperature on its own. The chick weighs 8.5 grams but will continue to grow every day. Keepers will feed the chick every two hours between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. for the next 10 days. At first, it will only receive thawed mice, which are easier for chicks to digest, but eventually its diet will include crickets, mealworms and small anoles (a type of lizard). After 10 days, the feedings will gradually decrease until the chick is fed twice a day like the adults.

Outside of feeding the chick, keepers will keep interactions with it to a minimum to increase the chances of it successfully raising its own chicks as an adult. They have placed mirrors in the incubator and play Guam kingfisher vocalizations to prevent the chick from imprinting on humans. #WeSaveSpecies

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