Nature Collection 06 - The Great Melt 5of5 - 2009 - Nature's Great Events Ep1

provide one of the most bizarre summer spectacles as hundreds gather in the river shallows to rub themselves on smooth pebbles. This exfoliating action allows them to moult their year-old skin. Guillemot chicks take their first heart-stopping flights from their precipitous sea cliff nests to the sea 300 metres below. With the summer so short, they have to return south before the re-freeze. But the chicks' stubby wings are too underdeveloped to fly. To reach the relative safety of the sea ...
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