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Blue-eyed babies

Avian experts from around the world, including the team at Chester Zoo, have joined forces to help save a critically endangered species: the Brazilian blue-eyed ground dove. These charming birds were thought to be extinct, but reappeared in 2015. With only 11 identified in the wild, conservationists have managed to incubate three eggs, with Chester Zoo’s lead bird keeper Victoria Kaldis travelling to Brazil to hand-rear the chicks, who are now successfully established at the Parque Das Aves, joi...

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