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Newborn Osprey Chicks
Meadowview Nest 5/17/03; note unhatched egg and white egg tooth on chicks’ upper beak. It will be interesting to see whether the third egg hatches. The hatchlings are likely one and two days old. Chicks' development is semialtricial at birth: immobile,
downy, eyes open and fed by an adult. Osprey normally begin to incubate after the laying of the first egg so the eggs will hatch consecutively (asynchronous hatching) instead of all at one time. Osprey on the Maurice generally hatch earlier than the Atlantic Coast birds. We suspect this is related to the early herring run.
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