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Die. as the winter progresses, the father will be severely tested. the mother will be tested as well. her return trip to the sea is considerably more difficult than the original march to the nesting ground. it is colder now, and she will have lost almost a third of her body weight producing the egg. she is literally starving. of course, the fathers are nearly starving, too, but for them, a meal is far off in the distance. by the time their vigil atop the egg is over, the penguins fathers will have gone without food of any kind for over 125 days, and they will have endured one of the most viole...

She must eat soon or she will die. as the winter progresses, the father will be severely tested. the mother will be tested as well. her return trip to the sea is considerably more difficult than the original march to the nesting ground. it is colder now and she will have lost almost a third of her body weight producing the egg. she is literally starving. of course, the fathers are nearly starving, too, but for them, a meal is far off in the distance. by the time their vigil atop the egg is over, the penguin fathers will have gone without food of any kind for over 125 days and they will have en...

She must eat soon or she will die. as the winter progresses, the father will be severely tested. the mother will be tested as well. her return trip to the sea is considerably more difficult than the original march to the nesting ground. it is colder now, and she will have lost almost a third of her body weight producing the egg. she is literally starving. of course, the fathers are nearly starving, too, but for them, a meal is far off in the distance. by the time their vigil atop the egg is over, the penguins fathers will have gone without food of any kind for over 125 days, and they will have...

The mother will be tested, as well. her return trip to the sea is considerably more difficult than the original march to the nesting ground. it is colder now, and she will have lost almost a third of her body weight producing the egg. she is literally starving. of course, the fathers are nearly starving, too, but for them, a meal is far off in the distance. by the time their vigil atop the egg is over, the penguin fathers will have gone without food of any kind for 125 days and they will have endured one of the most violent and deadly winters on earth, all for the chick. ♪ ♪

Whole system. >> reporter: the shores are also nesting ground for protected shore birds and turtles. i got to handle a few sea turtles rescued last year. they are truly remarkable creatures. turtles that are born on this beach, do they come back to this beach? >> they're imprinted here when they hatch. >> so they don't have a choice. their nesting ground or not, they're going to come back here? >> absolutely. >> reporter: the beach is also shared by tourists who will see less of everything this summer. >> the visitors who come to the beach will see beach and not equipment and shovels coming al...