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The chicks are almost fully-grown and they sit at the edge of the nest, making perfunctory attempts at flight, and then getting nervous and falling back into the nest. The first flight can be a nervous affair, for failure will land them in the middle of a busy road below! The parents sit at a distance, and urge the chicks to fly to them on a neighbouring residential building. The chicks are now much larger, and their orange gapes have turned more burgundy-red in colour. The fledglings are now almost ready to fly! Towards the end of the video, the baby backs up and squirts out its poop sack, so its mother can collect it in her beak and discard it far away. Mother crow comes along and stuffs the hungry upward-facing gapes of the hungry chicks - all mouths they are! Those wings look more like
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