ocr: WHITE PELICANS FEEDING Chicks eat partly, B IRD young PARENTS must feed that them have until precocial they digested fish coughed parents. up by are ready to leave the nest. Most their parents bring food in their beak, but some - mostly seabirds - swallow the food and cough it up, partly digested, into the chick's beak. Birds of prey tear up food for their chicks to eat. ligeons and flamingos feed their young on special milk, a fatty liquid secreted from the crop (an organ in the throat). REACHING INSIDE Older chicks gulp food right out of the parent's throat
