2 ibis chicks to go to China

NIIGATA, Japan - Two crested ibis chicks born in 2001 to Mei Mei, a female ibis presented to Japan by China, wait for shipment to Shanghai at the Ibis Protection Center in the Sado Island, Niigata Prfecture, on March 5. They are to be sent to Shanghai on March 6 on schedule but a third chick, which was to follow them to China later, died at a Tokyo zoo March 5. The photo was provided by the center.

• Product Code
• ILEA000012010

• Registered date
• 2002/3/06 00:00:00

• Credit
• Kyodo / Kyodo News Images

• Media source

• Media size
• 1735 × 1224 pixel

• Resolution
• 72 dpi

• Deployment size
• 193.86(KB)*

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