Meanwhile, cannibalism is less common in birds than in other groups, but certain species will eat diseased or dead hatchlings as a way of disposing of the bodies before they can attract maggots.

类相食鸟类中更少见些，不过某些鸟也会吃生病或死掉的幼雏来处理掉尸体，避免吸引蛆虫。

The hawk has picked you up and is flying home with you, where it will dismember you to feed its young.

鹰隼已将你抓起， 正携你飞返巢穴，那里， 它将肢解你以喂养幼雏。

Their priority now is to feed their chick while times are good.

它们现的首要任务是趁形势好的时候喂养幼雏。

She had found a young owl on the ground.

她上发现了只猫头鹰幼雏。

Kittiwakes lay two eggs on average, but only half the young will survive, fed on regurgitated food ferried in a relay by both parents.

三趾鸥平均产两枚蛋，但只有半数的幼雏能够存活，它们的双亲轮流捕食回来后再反刍喂给它们。

Happy she, if she may be permitted to bring them up to maturity, and uncompelled to renew her joys in another nest.

如果她能将幼雏培养长大，无需被迫重新垒窝筑巢，即可再度开始母亲的快乐，那么，她该有多么幸福自！

So the cranes are raising their chick in an irrigation channel.

所以鹤灌溉渠里养育它们的幼雏。

I placed the chick in the nest, and it quickly calmed down.

我把猫头鹰幼雏放进窝里，它很快就安静下来了。

But the puffin chicks have now fledged along with the Guillemots and kittiwakes. This is a new beginning for them.

不过角嘴海雀幼雏已经羽毛丰满了，海鸠和三趾鸥也样。这是它们新的起点。

They have only five months to mate, hatch their eggs, raise their chicks and see them fledged.

它们只有五个月的时间来完成交配孵卵、养育幼雏并看着它们羽翼丰满。

While he hunts, she feeds the chicks and guards the nest.

爸爸捕猎时，妈妈则要给幼雏喂食还要保卫巢穴。

And sure enough, black grouse seem to have lower chick survival through that period of when chicks are small.

确实如此，黑松鸡幼雏尚小时期的存活率似乎较低。