Several shots from different angles of biologist at "Laurel Maryland USA Patuxent Wildlife Reserach Center", checking eggs for sounds (beeping and pecking) eggs being taken from incubator and put back in incubator. Several CSs, MCSs, ECU of baby chick making attempt to enlarge hole in shell, baby's beek pecking at shell covering from inside of shell, chick breaking out of shell, head and neck out of the shell. Cut to chick resting "exhausted". CS of biologist Dr Glen Smart removing empty eggshell from hatching cage. More shots of chick resting.