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They also vocalize to tell their chicks they are back at the nest with food and, seemingly, to cheer on their babies when they’re learning to fly.

But scientists endured a long, anxious wait until this point - and the chicks face another potentially deadly challenge in the coming months.

Before 2021, the hatching of Cassowary chicks in the UK was relatively rare.

He and his partner Magic shot to global stardom in 2018 when they fell in love at the Sea Life Sydney Aquarium, later adopting and raising two chicks.

The decline of their natural habitat means curlew often breed in farmers' hayfields where their nests can be destroyed if the grass is mown in May or June, before chicks have had time to fledge.