Sentence examples for brooding birds from inspiring English sources

Only incubating and brooding birds spend the night at the colony.

Brooding birds, presented with the choice between a smaller egg or a larger one, have been observed to choose the larger, even if it was artificial.

T H White's 1951 study, The Goshawk, provided her with a childhood starting point for her obsession with these brooding birds.

Procellariforms have the longest incubation periods among brooding birds and their incubation model31 predicts 68 days for a Troodon-sized egg.

The fossils show evidence that these animals adopted a posture similar to that of brooding birds.

Its metabolite DDE is a reproductive toxicant in pelicans and many other birds, causing eggshell thinning and weakening, and consequent breeding failure through the eggs being accidentally crushed by brooding birds.

The nest is a flimsy basket that seems too small for the brooding bird.

Mr. Finley once retired a brooding bird that was disrupting his backyard flock, as well as another chicken that had formed a strong bond with it.

Relative feeding on brooding mother birds (versus nestlings) decreases as nestling age increases, suggesting that while brooding, mother birds are more susceptible to attacking mosquitoes [9].

Brooding mother birds, for example, must stay at the nest to transfer heat to young and protect them from predators [10].

We did not observe bumblebees in the nestboxes at the stage of incubation and brooding by birds.