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Robins

Baby robins are weak and helpless. Their parents have to feed them.

Baby birds

Some baby robins lie close together in a nest. Their eyes are closed.
They have no feathers. They can’t stand on their tiny, weak legs.

With a flutter of wings the mother robin lands on the nest. In her bill
is a wiggling worm. At once, each baby’s mouth opens wide. “Me! Me! Give
it to me!” each open mouth seems to be saying.

The mother pushes the worm into a mouth and flies away. She’ll be back
soon with another worm or insect. Then another baby bird will have its
turn to eat.

On a pile of grass near a river are some baby ducks. They are different
from the robins. The little ducks have fuzzy feath­ers. Their bright eyes
are wide open. And when their mother quacks, they follow her out of the
nest. All in a row they waddle to the river for a swim.

Some kinds of birds, such as robins, blue jays, and nuthatches, are
helpless for sev­eral weeks after they hatch. But other kinds of birds,
such as flamingos, ducks, chickens, and geese, can see and walk and care
for themselves soon after they hatch.

A baby flamingo leaves its nest about five days after it hatches.

Flamingos

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