Chough Nest

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Showing chough eggs hatching in the nest and young chicks feeding.

A montage of scenes from a special camera above the nest of a chough whose usual habitat is on seaside cliff ledges. These show chough eggs being incubated, the hatching of the young and the young chicks in the nest.
From: Wild about Nature
First Broadcast : 20 March 2007

Teachers' notes

Age Group : 7-9,9-11

Subject : Science

Topic : Life processes and living things

Keywords : Birds

Notes : Useful to use to see how a chough egg develops into a young bird. Extrapolate to other species.


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