We just saw Tom the Mocker (probably Mrs. Tom) teaching Tom Jr. to fly.
How sweet! In the Nature videos I’ve seen some baby birds can make it from the clifftop to the ocean and live to come back, with mom or dad guiding the first trip all the way with words of encouragement. Others go “SPLAT!” and Mama Fox picks them up for her large brood of kits.
Or baby albatross get left by Mom and Dad until they get so hungry they have to fly or starve. A lot of them make it to the surf and a shark snags them, or they make it, the shark misses and the adrenaline gets the baby albatross airborne in a heartbeat.
In real life, I don’t think I could watch.