Photo: Audubon / Jocelyn Anderson
The photos shown here are recent pictures from the Audubon website which feature young adoptive birds that have been taken in by other species parents. The photo above and below show a young Canada Goose with its adoptive Sandhill Crane family.
The bottom photo shows a Goldeneye duckling getting a lift from its adopted Common Loon parent in British Columbia.
Accidental adoptions like these are not always successful and the unfortunate interloper often does not survive. But those that do often go on to rejoin their own breed and live a normal existence thereafter.
Photo: Audubon / Jocelyn Anderson
Photo: Audubon / Doug Giles
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