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Tuesday, April 27, 2010

A Japanese crested ibis hatched at a zoo park..[ 1078 ]

Rare Japanese crested ibis born at zoo in Ishikawa

A newly hatched Japanese crested ibis is pictured at Ishikawa Zoo in Nomi, Ishikawa Prefecture. (Photo courtesy of Ishikawa Zoo)

A newly hatched Japanese crested "ibis' is pictured at Ishikawa Zoo in Nomi, Ishikawa Prefecture( Photo courtesy of Ishikawa Zoo )

NOMI, Ishikawa -(Mainichi Japan) April 26, 2010-

A Japanese crested ibis chick hatched at a zoological park here on Sunday.

The Japanese crested ibis, designated a special Japanese natural treasure, hatched at Ishikawa Zoo in Nomi, Ishikawa Prefecture, at 7:31 a.m. on Sunday.

The egg was laid by a 6-year old female ibis that mated with an 8-year-old male at the Sado Japanese Crested Ibis Conservation Center in Sado, Niigata Prefecture. It was the first egg to incubate among all four eggs laid together between March 27 and April 2.

It is only the second time that an egg moved from Sado to another facility to avoid mass bird flu infections and other risks has hatched successfully, following a hatching at Tokyo's Tama Zoological Park.

The city's natural conservation division said it still remains unknown whether the chick, which is about 12 centimeters in length and weighs 62.9 grams, is male or female. It will be able to leave the nest in one and a half months, if all goes well.

The chick started pecking the eggshell from the inside on the evening of April 23; however, as it did not have enough strength to break the shell on its own, a breeding staff member helped the process using tweezers.

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