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    The Twins Greet A Great Auk

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    The Treetop family travels back in time to 19th century North Atlantic Ocean to see the great auk, a now extinct bird. After a long day of unsuccessful searching, they find a great auk's egg that was dropped by an eagle. This leads them to a huge nesting ground of great auks, where thousands of pairs are caring for their eggs. By placing the found egg among the others, the true parents are able to identify and retrieve it, impressing the family with the birds' ability to recognize their own egg.

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    The Twins Greet A Great Auk

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    The Treetop family travels back in time to 19th century North Atlantic Ocean to see the great auk, a now extinct bird. After a long day of unsuccessful searching, they find a great auk's egg that was dropped by an eagle. This leads them to a huge nesting ground of great auks, where thousands of pairs are caring for their eggs. By placing the found egg among the others, the true parents are able to identify and retrieve it, impressing the family with the birds' ability to recognize their own egg.

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    The Treetop family travels back in time to 19th century North Atlantic Ocean to see the great auk, a now extinct bird. After a long day of unsuccessful searching, they find a great auk's egg that was dropped by an eagle. This leads them to a huge nesting ground of great auks, where thousands of pairs are caring for their eggs. By placing the found egg among the others, the true parents are able to identify and retrieve it, impressing the family with the birds' ability to recognize their own egg.

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    The Twins Greet A Great Auk

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    The Treetop family travels back in time to 19th century North Atlantic Ocean to see the great auk, a now extinct bird. After a long day of unsuccessful searching, they find a great auk's egg that was dropped by an eagle. This leads them to a huge nesting ground of great auks, where thousands of pairs are caring for their eggs. By placing the found egg among the others, the true parents are able to identify and retrieve it, impressing the family with the birds' ability to recognize their own egg.

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    The Twins Greet a Great Auk

    The water swished and swirled as winds rippled its surface and creatures moved beneath.

    The Treetop family have turned their time machine into a boat and travelled back in time

    to the nineteenth century, to the North Atlantic Ocean, looking for a bird that lived then

    called a great Auk.

    The treetop family had been looking for nesting grounds all day and they still hadn’t found

    one. They were tired and hungry, and it was getting late. So they moored their boat by the

    shore so they could make camp for the night. “Don’t worry, I’m sure we’ll find an auk’, said

    Tulip. ‘I’m wearing my lucky crystal!” That’s not very scientific’, said Asha.

    That moment a white-tailed eagle came around the headland and flew overhead. It was

    carrying something in its claws. A ray of sunlight glinted off Tulip’s crystal, sending out a

    little beam that confused the eagle. It dropped the thing it was holding into the sea and flew

    away with an angry screech. Professor Penelope waded towards the object and fished it

    out with a net.


    It was a big white egg white with brown markings. ‘This is a great auk’s egg!’ said Professor

    Pablo excitedly. ‘The eagle must have been hunting in their nesting grounds. So now we

    know where they are – right around the headland!’ ‘I told you my lucky crystal would help!’

    said tulip happily. ‘It was just coincidence’, said Asha. ‘The sun shining on your crystal got

    in the eagle’s eyes.’

    The treetop family walked around the headland. As they turned the corner, they heard a

    loud noise. It was thousands and thousands of pairs of great auks, and each pair was

    looking after an egg. ‘Wow! said Ted. These great auks are nearly as big as me!’

    The great auks were very loud and very clumsy. They had big black beaks and white

    bellies, and they weren’t afraid of the treetop family at all. ‘There are so many birds…’ said

    Alfie. ‘How do we find who this egg belongs to?’ Professor Pablo placed the egg gently on

    the ground, and the Treetop family walked away. And out of the crowd, two great auks

    came waddling up, squawking furiously.

    One of them lay down on the egg. ‘That is amazing!’ gasped Alfie. ‘How did the parents

    know it was their egg?’ ‘It’s because of my lucky crystal!’ said Tulip.

    ‘Actually, Tulip, even though there are thousands and thousands of eggs, each one has

    slightly markings,’ explained Professor Penelope. ‘So it’s possible the great auks recognized

    their own egg, just as we would recognize YOU, even in a big crowd of human children.’

    ‘You see, Tulip?’ said Asha. ‘There is always a perfectly reasonable scientific explanation.’
    Night-time by the North Atlantic Ocean, the sky was still light as the Treetop family had a

    dinner around the campfire. ‘I wish we could see the Northern Lights!’ said Tulip. ‘What are

    the Northern Lights?’ asked Ted. ‘They are where the sky lights up with colored flashes –

    often green, pink or yellow,’ said Professor Pablo. ;’It’s a spectacular sight, and something

    you can only see when you are very far north, as we are now.’

    ‘And only in winter and early spring too,’ added Asha. ‘So as it’s June, your lucky crystal

    can’t help you, Tulip.’ But when she went to bed, Tulip put her lucky crystal under her

    pillow anyway. And now she was dreaming of the Northern Lights. WHAT a sight they

    were… In Tulip’s dream the night sky was alive with the most brilliant light display you

    could ever think to see. It was the perfect end to a perfect day. Luck may not be very

    scientific. But sometimes it works.

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