Young terns hatch on Dutch city roof

This video shows a recently hatched common tern chick on the roof of Nordwin College in Leeuwarden city in Friesland province in the Netherlands.

This video series shows that roof. Again this year, a colony of common terns nests there.

About 17 June, the first young terns hatched, as later videos of the series show.

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