UPDATE March 10th, 2023 @ 12:10 am: We have been hearing sporadic peeps for the past few hours, but the male has been hiding the egg and/or chick, so we are not sure if it is calling out from inside the egg, or if it has fully hatched yet…
March 9th 2023 - Nonsuch Island, Bermuda > Translocation Colony A > Burrow #832 (Skip direct to LIVEstream)
At 8:58 Bermuda time on March 8th, one of the many LIVEstream followers alerted the NonsuchExpeditions Team to a visible “pip” or small hole on the egg in the CahowCam2 burrow when it was briefly revealed by the female.
“Pipping” is the process through which the chick chips away at the the inside of the egg, at first creating “dimples” or outward facing dents or ripples in the shell and then eventually a small hole which is the start of the hatching process. This process can take as little as a few hours or up to several days before, if all goes well it fully emerges.
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*As of Jeremy’s last visit to Nonsuch on March 2nd, on Nonsuch there were already 8 chicks and 6 more that were pipping.
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