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The
juvenile emancipation Finally,
between the 60-70 days of life the chicks leave the nest.
At first they can’t fly and they spend the whole day walking
through the vegetation and rocky places, where adults can watch over them
and bring them preys. |
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The
next two weeks, juveniles start doing short flights, fluttering and
hovering. At the end of the first month they can hover correctly and move
to a distance of up to 1
km (away) from the nest. In
the second month they learn to soar (use the warm air to rise
effortlessly). At the end of the second month they go hunting with their
parents. In that moment their flight is almost indistinguishable from that
of adults. From the third month adults stop feeding the juveniles and abandon them gradually. This is the moment when they decide to leave the parents territory and become definitively emancipated. |
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