People flock from around the world to watch Lincolnshire parrot egg hatch
It all took place on a 23 hour social media live stream
Last updated 9th Feb 2021
Listen closely...
That's the first sounds of a baby parrot, still inside its egg, at Lincolnshire Wildlife Park.
The site, famous for it's naughty swearing birds, held a 23 hour social media stream, teaching children about the process.
At it's height, 31-thousand people tuned in.
Owner Steve Nichols says celebrity fashion icon Gok Wan has also shown interest.
"We don’t breed here, but because there are so many parrots we always find the odd egg.
"When we bring the egg in we usually check it, they’re usually infertile, but we use that egg to actually show children when we have school visits of where exactly a parrot comes from.
"This one, when we put it on the monitor, actually just a little heartbeat appeared, so we said we’ll see what happens and see if it does incubate or not.
"Then yesterday, we noticed a little movement and it started to hatch.
"Because we could see it rapidly hatching, I thought probably one of the best things we could do is to share this with our dedicated and brilliant followers on Facebook.
"We do a lot of these live videos and on average we get about 600 to 800 people viewing at any one time. Sometimes it goes up to 1000.
"So I thought we’ll do that and while we’re working we’ll do, not entertainment but just something a little different.
"We started to see the interest and before we knew it we were literally having thousands upon thousands of viewers.
"It ended up being one marathon of a video for 23 hours."
Last month work officially started on an 'adult only' section of Lincolnshire Wildlife Park.
It's so their swearing parrots can practice their fowl language without offending anyone.
A new enclosure's being built so the 'polite' parrots can escape their rude neighbours.
The number of abusive African greys has now more than doubled.
At first there were just 5, but now there are 11!