Moorhen chicks ‘walk on water’, video

This is a video of a moorhen and its chicks.

They walk ‘on water’ … rather on the water-lily and yellow water-lily leaves.

Basennel made this video, from a canoe near Kinderdijk in the Netherlands.

Status and breeding ecology of the Common Moorhen in Algeria: here.

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