FreeLists / va-richmond-general / [va-richmond-general] Re: Killdeer fledglings

[WEalding@xxxxxxx]

I've been watching this story, and I work in a (single story) building  where 
Killdeer have nested in the past, and I wondered how the babies got  down.  I 
ended up concluding that they do jump.  There is a species of  goose 
(?Barnacle maybe) that nests on cliff tops and the babies jump and bounce  
their way 
down to the sea.  It was featured on a TV program (Discovery  channel or 
Nature, I can't remember which).  You would not think that they  survive such a 
fall 
but they do.
 
Wendy Ealding

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