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First Baby Hatches
6/1/2006

One of the eggs hatched during the night.
The parents stay very close to the nest and both the mother and the father care for the babies.
The young eat "dove's milk" which is regurgitated from the parent's "crop".
Both the mother and the father have the "milk".

This video shows the father feeding the newly hatched dove.

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