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

它们现在首任务是趁形时候喂养雏。

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

所以鹤在灌溉渠里养育它们雏。

She had found a young owl on the ground.

她在地上发现了一只猫头鹰雏。

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

我把猫头鹰雏放进窝里，它很快就安静下来了。

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

爸爸捕猎时，妈妈则给雏喂食还保卫巢穴。

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

它们只有五个月时间来完成交配孵卵、养育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.

不过角嘴海雀雏已经羽毛丰满了，海鸠和三趾鸥也一样。这是它们新起点。

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

如果她雏培养长大，无需被迫重新垒窝筑巢，即可再度开始母亲快乐，那么，她该有多么幸福自在！

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

确实如此，黑松鸡在雏尚小时期存活率似乎较低。

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，但只有半数雏够存活，它们双亲轮流捕食回来后再反刍喂给它们。

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

鹰隼已你抓起， 正携你飞返巢穴，在那里， 它肢解你以喂养雏。

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，不过某些鸟也会吃生病或死掉雏来处理掉尸体，避免吸引蛆虫。