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Springtime is also the season when baby animals are born 

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Springtime is also the season when baby animals are born 

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Watch the mother Wren feed her babies.

How do the baby birds communicate or tell their mother they are hungry?

Can you see how many chicks the mother and father bird have in the nest?

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Watch and listen as a Carolina Wren feeds its hungry baby birds. We're up close and in HD with Front Yard Video. Can you identify what the babies are eating?

According to Audubon.org and biokids.UMich.edu, Carolina wrens breed between March and October. Both parents bring insects (caterpillars, beetles, grasshoppers, crickets, snails, and even spiders) to their nestlings for 12-14 days after the eggs hatch, and for a few weeks after they leave the nest. Berries and seeds can also be on the menu. Mom and Dad often sing in duet.

Watch this next: A mother blackbird feeds brand new baby birds in their nest. Also fun: The Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Bird Song Hero.

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Up close with a Carolina Wren as it feeds its nesting baby birds | The Kid Should See This

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Watch and listen as a Carolina Wren feeds its hungry baby birds. We're up close and in HD with Front Yard Video. Can you identify what the babies are eating? According to Audubon.org and biokids.UMich.edu, Carolina wrens breed between March and October.

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These Purple Martins are amazing parents!

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These Purple Martins are amazing parents!

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This short film is from a camera inside the bird's nest.  Scientists have created these amazing nests called pods and the Purple Martin families love them.  However, there are some problems for the manu peepi.

Look closely and see what these problems are for the Purple Martin family as they try to survive

What do the birds line the nest with?

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Inside this painted white gourd, one in an 'apartment complex' of gourds, a young Purple Martin family grows from eggs to fledglings. During this Livestream summary from the Erie, Pennsylvania-based Purple Martin Conservation Association, we can peek at what it's like inside their nest. They wrote:

2019 was a great year for our livestream nest, but not without drama. As you see in the video, we encountered a "capped egg", subadult martins causing problems, a nestling whose airway was blocked by a large dragonfly, a near miss by a hungry Cooper's Hawk, and a House Wren intent on pecking the nestlings. Such is life for the Purple Martin, a struggle to survive in the face of habitat loss, predators, and competition.

Some background from The Cornell Lab's AllAboutBirds.org:

Putting up a Purple Martin house is like installing a miniature neighborhood in your backyard. In the East, dark, glossy-blue males and brown females will peer from the entrances and chirp from the rooftops all summer. In the West, martins mainly still nest the old-fashioned way-in woodpecker holes. Our largest swallows, Purple Martins perform aerial acrobatics to snap up flying insects. At the end of the breeding season they gather in big flocks and make their way to South America...

Native Americans hung up empty gourds for the Purple Martin before Europeans arrived in North America. Purple Martins in eastern North America now nest almost exclusively in birdhouses, but those in the West use mostly natural cavities.

Read more about the purple martin's life history. The association also has student/teacher resources.

Watch these videos next: a mother blackbird feeds brand new baby birds in their nest, Studying the oak, caterpillar, great tit food chain, and a Kiwi chick hatches from an egg at Auckland Zoo.

Plus, more about bird eggs and nests, including How Birds Get Oxygen Inside Their Eggs.

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Life inside a Purple Martin nest | The Kid Should See This

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Inside this painted white gourd, one in an 'apartment complex' of gourds, a young Purple Martin family grows from eggs to fledglings. During this Livestream summary from the Erie, Pennsylvania-based Purple Martin Conservation Association, we can peek at what it's like inside their nest.

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Here is a baby Kiwi hatching from an egg at the Auckland Zoo

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Here is a baby Kiwi hatching from an egg at the Auckland Zoo

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This egg has not been laid in a hole in the forest but at the zoo.  The Kiwi chick has to struggle to leave the egg and needs some help from the zookeeper.

What do you think the two little pink parts are on the baby Kiwi's body?

How many toes can you see on its powerful feet?

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Watch this Kiwi chick hatch from an egg at Auckland Zoo. This is the season's second hatchling for BNZ Operation Nest Egg, a program that collects the eggs of endangered and critically endangered wild kiwi. Hatched and protected until they are big enough to return to their native populations, this process has increased their chance of surviving to adulthood to 65% , up from just 5% in the wild.

Watch more videos of birds, zoos, and eggs, including this very different kind of hatching video: the Lord Howe Island Stick Insect.

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A Kiwi chick struggles to hatch at Auckland Zoo | The Kid Should See This

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Watch this Kiwi chick hatch from an egg at Auckland Zoo. This is the season's second hatchling for BNZ Operation Nest Egg, a program that collects the eggs of endangered and critically endangered wild kiwi.