Sentence examples for as a nestling from inspiring English sources

If caught as a nestling, ravens can be tamed and taught to mimic human speech, a fact noted by Edgar Allan Poe.

The birds they flew were not the hawks in rehabilitation but three captive-bred birds and a turkey vulture named Byron, who arrived as a nestling, sick and starving, and is now so attached to people that he has stayed on as a crowd pleaser.

It feeds mostly on seeds, as well as insects while breeding and as a nestling.

If the food is sufficiently soaked, the baby bird should not need any more water, at least as long as it is a nestling.

The qualitative response of nestlings was measured as the maximum intensification of a nestling's acoustic begging, estimated as the calls with the highest amplitude [ 3].

The only thing that he had ever done was accept meals regurgitated to him by his sisters, as if he were a nestling bird, and wait, and wait some more, and finally take the one short flight from his home, followed by five minutes of copulation.

Weekend Guardian started life as a tabloid nestling inside a broadsheet.

The protest theme was hinted at in accessories: a crystal-studded whistle worn as a pendant, nestling among strands of pearls; a bag printed with the legend Make Fashion Not War.

The Columbia, Md .music venue, which hosted the Sweetlife Festival in May and will host Virgin FreeFest this fall, trailed two amphitheaters with breathtaking views -- one in Colorado, another in Washington state -- as well as an ampitheater nestled in the capital of the entertainment world, the Hollywood Bowl.

At the end of last year, Butterfinger (as in the Nestle-owned candy) threw a contest challenging people to make a commercial in the vein of their classic "Nobody's going to lay a finger on my Butterfinger" campaign.

If you've ever been on a plane, chances are you have eaten a chicken breast so rubbery it could double as a squash ball, "nestling" in a sauce with Polyfilla consistency.