She had found a young owl on the ground.

她在地上发现了一只猫头幼雏。

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

所以鹤在灌溉渠里养育它们的幼雏。

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。

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

它们现在的首要任务是趁形势好的时候喂养幼雏。

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

我把猫头幼雏放进窝里，它很快就安静下来了。

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。

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

过角嘴海雀幼雏已经羽毛丰满了，海鸠和三趾鸥也一样。这是它们新的起点。

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，她该有多么幸福自在！

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。

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.

同类相食在鸟类中更少见一些，过某些鸟也会吃病或死掉的幼雏来处理掉尸体，避免吸引蛆虫。