Name: Wild China Up Close: Not every bird can grow up
Uploaded: 2024-09-24T18:19:12+08:00
Duration: 1 min 35 s
Description: In June, great crested terns are hatching out on the islands of Xiangshan County, east China's Zhejiang Province. The laws of nature offer no guarantee that every hatchling of one of the world's most critically endangered tern species survives. In

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In June, great crested terns are hatching out on the islands of Xiangshan County, east China's Zhejiang Province. The laws of nature offer no guarantee that every hatchling of one of the world's most critically endangered tern species survives.

In this episode of "Wild China Up Close", CGTN's film crew captured the terns' survival ordeal full of competition and danger.

For more:

Meet the bird with a 'little spoon' in east China

Wild China up close: Bird of legend

(Cover image designed by CGTN's Zhu Shangfan)