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Join us to investigate the breeding behaviour of two bird species that each have a different breeding strategy. The greylag goose is a ‘precocial’ species, which means that at hatch the young can feed and move independently. Parent geese form long-term monogamous bonds and the female alone provides care at the nest. The endangered northern bald ibis is an ‘altricial’ species, which means that its offspring are born blind and featherless and therefore require a lot of parental care before they can feed or walk on their own. Ibis pairs are seasonally monogamous, and both pair partners provide care at the nest. The aim of this study is to identify which behaviours at the nest predict which breeding pair is successful or unsuccessful at producing hatchlings that survive. The project is run by researchers of the University of Vienna and is funded by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG).