Chicks! As soon as I arrived, chicks started popping out of the eggs like downy popcorn, and parents were quick to start providing meals. Parents feed their chicks meals of food converted to a liquid, oily substance with almost as much energy per ounce as deisel fuel. Thus, the chicks are growing noticeably by the day, by the hour, really. This black-footed albatross feeds mostly on fish and fish eggs while Laysan albatross, the other breeding albatross species on Tern, feed primarily on squid.