Through satellite telemetry, we have observed that after just a week’s rest, Sachokchin laid a second clutch of eggs! She has now incubated them to term. We hope that Sachokchin’s chicks will soon be accompanying her to forage on grasshoppers and beetles (agricultural pests!) in the wheat field in which they were hatched.
July 2014
Photo: M. Kessler
Bustard chicks are precocial—they are able to walk alongside their mother (albeit slowly and with a bit of stumbling, as in this video from Britain!) shortly after hatching.