Photo via National Aquarium

It’s a boring Wednesday in the middle of the summer. So here’s a happy bit of zoological news. The National Aquarium in Baltimore is showing off its newest puffin chick. The tiny, fluffy, jet-black bird hatched on July 4—just like America and George Steinbrenner!—and is currently being incubated before it goes on display.

The little female puffin’s parents are the aquarium’s adult puffins, Victor and Vixen, who have produced three other chicks since 2006. Puffins are a co-parenting species, the aquarium says on its website, meaning that Victor and Vixen took turns sheltering the egg and switch off duties getting fish for the newborn.

The aquarium’s staff is keeping the three-week-old puffin in an incubator that simulates a burrow wild puffins use as habitats. The incubation will last about 40 more days before the chick begins forays into the public exhibit.

All said, the hatching of a new puffin is happier than the last bit of news about the National Aquarium. Its D.C. location, the oldest continuously operating aquarium in the United States, will close Sept. 30 to make way for renovations at the Herbert C. Hoover Building, which is primarily used as the headquarters of the Commerce Department.