There are thought to be less than 250 adult blue-crowned laughingthrushes left in the wild
After their parents abandoned them, two critically endangered baby birds have been saved by zookeepers.
Early videos, recorded by the keepers when the chicks were just days old, showed the tiny, featherless laughingthrushes lifting their open beaks for finely chopped pieces of food, fed to them with special tweezers. “When building the nest, for example, we had to make sure it’s cosy enough for them to huddle up together but had enough space for them to move apart a little if they get too hot.
“We hand-fed the chicks a pureed mixture at first, but gradually weaned them onto a mixture of fruit and insects.”The chicks are now around four weeks old, and have begun flying around the fledgling enclosure with their full plumage.
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