You ll find it in the DNR building at the State Fair in St. Paul every summer. Growing Up Feeding and caring for young birds is hard work for their parents . Baby birds grow very fast because they eat a lot. Trumpeter swan cygnets eat as much as 20 pounds of aquatic plants every day. Eastern bluebird and purple martin parents catch hundreds of insects each day to feed their young.
Songbirds fly back to the nest with food every few minutes from sunup to sundown.
A female wren made 1,217 trips to her nest in just 16 hours. The time when the chicks leave the nest is called fledging . A bald eagle chick practices flapping its wings in the nest atop a tall pine. Next it tries beating its wings into the wind and taking short hops above the nest. One day, a big gust of wind catches the bird s open wings and whisks it away.