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Dabchick adults with chick

Dabchick adults with chick

Dabchick adults with chick

One adult dabchick carries a stripy-headed chick on its back while the other feeds it. Dabchicks eat aquatic insects and larvae, freshwater molluscs, crayfish, or small fish. They are very capable divers.

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Photograph by Geoff Moon

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