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This bird sanctuary in Cape Town, South Africa, is taking care of baby cormorant birds.

The birds were left alone by their parents.

The cormorants were discovered on rocks near an island.

Around 2,000 birds were taken back to the mainland so that the bird sanctuary could look after them.

But more than 800 cormorants died.

The rest of the birds are getting better and they eat more than a tonne of fish every week.

These cormorants are too young to eat on their own.

Around 50 volunteers come to the sanctuary to feed the birds by hand.

Older cormorants are kept in this space, where they are starting to swim.

The sanctuary will release these birds soon.

Nicky Stander is the manager of the sanctuary.

Scientists think the baby birds were left because there wasn't much food.

Nicky Stander worries that if this situation continues, cormorants could become extinct.

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