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Thousands watch Lincolnshire parrot hatch at Lincolnshire Wildlife Park

It took over 24 hours, but that didn’t stop over 25,000 people watch the baby parrot hatch from an egg at Lincolnshire Wildlife Park last night.

The Lincolnshire Wildlife Park, formerly The Parrot Zoo, had been filming the eclectus parrot egg live on social media since Monday evening.

Across the whole time it was live the stream was seen by millions of people.

The series of videos was watched cumulatively by more than three million people, with 1.4 million tuning in to one of the videos alone.

The eclectus parrot emerged from its shell at about 8pm on Tuesday, with the event broadcast on Lincolnshire Wildlife Park’s Facebook page via a series of live videos over two days.

Keepers at the park kept viewers entertained as they watched, with comments on the process, facts about parrots, and competitions.

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At one point even TV presenter Gok Wan was watching.

Park owner and self proclaimed parrot fanatic Steve Nicholls says the bird is doing well.

“It’s brilliant this morning he’s got his head down. He’ll be quite useless for about 10 or 12 days so there’ll not be much to see, other than the fact we have to start feeding him.”

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