NIIGATA – The Environment Ministry said it has found a third crested ibis chick hatched in the wild on Sado Island, Niigata Prefecture, a sibling to a second chick first spotted two days prior.
The chicks’ parents were both born in the wild on the island in the Sea of Japan, making the new additions among the country’s first second-generation wild ibises in 40 years.
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