| Female kakapo raise their chicks on their own, and at night they leave their nest to forage for food. |
| At the aerie, under a rock ledge high above, two big gray chicks were still hunched on the nest. |
| But then a new male and female California quail strolled into the yard with a recently hatched brood of five chicks. |
| Only a few runts, chicks whose parents had perhaps fallen prey to a toothy leopard seal, are left behind to feed the skuas. |
| We think this means there will be a man with a guitar standing behind her, and some chicks in rah-rah skirts. |
| There were more of those girls than there were little waif heroin-looking chicks. |
