Stork Hrytsyk carried out the least chick from the nest

Stork Hrytsyk carried out the least chick from the nest

Screenshot from the broadcast on Youtube channel « Lelea Gritsko »

The star stork Gritsik carried the smallest chick beyond the nest. He was saved.

Now the storks provide the necessary help, reported Bird researcher Irina Sarazhinskaya.

Katrusya is the smallest chick Odarka and Gritsik. May 23 turned 2 weeks.

At 12 o’clock, all five storks were lying in the merchant next to their father. Subsequently, Gritsik took the least of them from the beak and threw it to the edge of the nest.

Then the stork again raised the chick, flew with it and took to the ground. In a minute, Gritsik returned to the rest of the children.

« On May 23, at 12:18, the storks were left alone in the nest for the first time. Unfortunately, in the wild, so we did not understand how Hrytsyk could fly from the nest with the smallest lace in his beak », – wrote Sarazhinskaya.

Anatoly Zabaylo – one of the founders of the Piryatinsky National Nature Park, which houses the nest of Odarka and Gritsik, found Katrus.

The chicks have already been fed and provided the necessary help.

« This is the case: Stork-father sometimes takes away the weakest to give more chances to others. It is natural selection-not cruelty, but an instinct of survival.

We understand: it’s hard to see. But thank you for your trust and support. And especially – for respect for the wild, even when its laws are not easy, ” -noted on the Facebook page « Lelea Gritsko ».

It is unknown whether the storm will return to wildlife.

As told On the Hrytsko Stork page, storks usually hatch more chicks than they can feed. If one of the toddlers is weaker, their parents get rid of them.

It is impossible to interfere and climb into the nest, because storks can be frightened and leave their chicks.

The lelechenya removed from the nest has little chance of surviving without parents. And if the baby is grown by people, it will not be able to return to the ordinary bird life.

We will remind, Leleka Hrytsko arrived to the village of Lelyaky of Poltava region since 2019. In 2023 from his nest with Odarka They began to lead round -the -clock broadcast.

However, Gritsko did not return this year. Researchers reportedOnly Odarka flew to the nest, and then another young male joined her. He was nicknamed Gritsik.

The star couple hatched Five chicks.