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Wild Isles

Both parents care for the chicks,taking turns to babysit while the other finds food

Both parents care for the chicks,
taking turns to babysit while the other finds food

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Both parents care for the chicks, taking turns to babysit
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while the other finds food.
Duration
8 seconds
Views
25
Timestamp in Movie
00:42:48
Uploaded
Apr 19, 2025
Season
1
Episode
4
Genres
documentary

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Movie Summary

Sir David Attenborough narrates a documentary about the natural animals in the British Isles and Ireland.
S01 • E03 And he must deliver it in exactly the right way. - Wild Isles 00:05
And he must deliver it in exactly the right way.
S01 • E02 This plantation, - Wild Isles 00:12
This plantation,
S01 • E06 So they're, yeah, a very, very adaptable species, - Wild Isles 00:08
So they're, yeah, a very, very adaptable species,
S01 • E04 They even take feathers from their own backs - Wild Isles 00:10
They even take feathers from their own backs
S01 • E02 But birds are using this wood as a temporary home, - Wild Isles 00:09
But birds are using this wood as a temporary home,
S01 • E01 Puffins mate for life and pairs use the same burrow every year. - Wild Isles 00:08
Puffins mate for life and pairs use the same burrow every ye...
S01 • E06 The team are now seeing hopeful signs - - Wild Isles 00:08
The team are now seeing hopeful signs -
S01 • E01 Here, they raise a single chick called a puffling. - Wild Isles 00:07
Here, they raise a single chick called a puffling.
S01 • E04 This extraordinary caring behaviour - Wild Isles 00:09
This extraordinary caring behaviour
S01 • E03 ..she chooses a nest deep in the heather. - Wild Isles 00:05
..she chooses a nest deep in the heather.
S01 • E02 As the late winter sun begins to sink, - Wild Isles 00:07
As the late winter sun begins to sink,
S01 • E06 But it's not just the charismatic predators they study. - Wild Isles 00:06
But it's not just the charismatic predators they study.
S01 • E01 Unlike gannets, the journeys they make for food - Wild Isles 00:07
Unlike gannets, the journeys they make for food
S01 • E03 Six weeks later, it's full of hungry mouths waiting for food. - Wild Isles 00:07
Six weeks later, it's full of hungry mouths waiting for...
S01 • E04 Grebes that dance together stay together. - Wild Isles 00:06
Grebes that dance together stay together.
S01 • E06 They also investigate the other end of the food chain - Wild Isles 00:10
They also investigate the other end of the food chain
S01 • E05 65% of the world's population of northern gannets - Wild Isles 00:09
65% of the world's population of northern gannets
S01 • E02 They've been out feeding all day, - Wild Isles 00:10
They've been out feeding all day,
S01 • E01 Their broad bills enable them to carry - Wild Isles 00:08
Their broad bills enable them to carry
S01 • E04 We have lost huge areas of reedbeds over the years, - Wild Isles 00:08
We have lost huge areas of reedbeds over the years,