A really nice lady, her husband and her daughter came to our office bearing gifts: two Tropic bird chicks they wanted to leave with us.
Hafriza,, the nice lady, her husband Lionel and daughter Shania rescued the chicks, about 2 and 3 weeks old from an Albizia tree they were nesting on, which was old and needed to be cut down.
The family lives at St Louise in Mahe. Tropic birds are only seen on Mahe at remote places on high cliffs or very tall trees where they can escape predation. They are found breeding on the ground on rat-free islands like Cousin, Cousine, Frigate and Aride.
Both chicks were healthy and active and had been surviving on a diet of king fish for their meals. When Terence gave them some pieces of fish he happened to have at the office, they happily gobbled them down.
Shania craddling one of the chicks
Hafriza and her family are about to leave on holiday. It has been agreed with the family, that we are going to send the birds to North Island rather than release them on Mahe, when the time comes, where there are too many predators. North Island is also where Hafriza’s other daughter is on school holiday and is undertaking some work attachment. I bet it will be good for the chicks to have family until they hopefully fly away one day….
This is the nice thing about Seychelles; people do care about wildlife and the environment.
Donations made here are
Jun 26th Brenton H USD 16.50
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