| Only a few runts, chicks whose parents had perhaps fallen prey to a toothy leopard seal, are left behind to feed the skuas. |
| The chicks will arrive on Salisbury Plain on June 23 and spend a month in quarantine before moving to a large enclosure. |
| Male chicks from selectively bred egg-laying strains are not suitable for meat production and so are killed at one to three days old. |
| But then a new male and female California quail strolled into the yard with a recently hatched brood of five chicks. |
| The quetzals have nowhere to go, so they nest in tree cavities within easy reach of the toucans who feast on quetzal eggs and chicks. |
| There were more of those girls than there were little waif heroin-looking chicks. |
