So on and so forth, but weren’t gonna take any chances. Anyway, successfully raised the chicken. And it could not have been happier with the results. Now, we have not replicated that. We’ve replicated egg laying but we have not had a chick since. So we have a different pair. Read More
You know, and they were all hunkered down. They got through the storm just fine. The bird was nice and toasty and off we go. We also noticed there was a nutritional downturn and we think that mom and dad just weren’t getting enough fish into the chick. So our… Read More
You know, were we not putting enough fish out, were there or not enough fish to fish in the pond?… Read More
And we were super nervous about this bird not making the night because of that cold rain. The good news about rains in Tampa in the fall, they rarely last very long, but they can come down pretty hard and cold. So I called a colleague and said help me… Read More
And we posted a staff out there to watch about a week before we thought the fledge date was. And all of a sudden the bird just takes off and flies across the pond like it had been doing it, you know, forever. So it’s like, well, we worried about… Read More
They kinda looked at the bird like, where were you?… Read More
It’s gonna go into the water, what’s it gonna do?… Read More
We’re going, what’s gonna happen?… Read More
And not a lot of data to go on. There was some very old publications that, unfortunately, were dated and weren’t giving us a lot of information. So again, we were flying a little bit by the seat of our pants. And we used stork data to help us out… Read More
Their nests are like six feet across and three feet thick and they continually resupply the nest. And when the chick fledges, which is a long, it’s 122 days before it fledges. That’s a long time. Read More
What should we do?… Read More
Should we not touch it?… Read More
Wow, look, bottom line, we had two pairs that were close to one another in different habitats, and they were vocalizing back and forth, which I think was the biggest part of the stimulation. The pair that produced were in about an acre-and-a-half netted-in pond. That was, you know, pretty… Read More
And it was like such good news but then we were so nervous, should we touch it?… Read More
So yeah, I enjoy it. It’s a creative process that I think is just, is very enriching. Read More
We’ve talked about different animals now, what would you say was the secret in Tampa for the birth of the shoebill stork?… Read More
And there’s other people that can answer that question. I’m just, there’s where the door should be. Read More
You figure out how it should swing, you know?… Read More
You know, I get a little crazy when they want to do, so which way should the door swing?… Read More
‘Cause they spend, you know, good part of their day back there too. It’s their bedroom. So when it comes to Tampa, there’s few more hurdles because of hurricanes. We have to be careful what we’re building and how we’re building them. But the process I enjoy, I enjoy master… Read More