In the early 19th century, Pacer mares were bred to stallions of the fledgling Morgan breed.
The advent of mechanization threatened all French draft breeds, and while many draft breeders turned their production towards the meat market, Norman Cob breeders instead crossed their horses with Thoroughbreds to contribute to the fledgling Selle Francais breed, now France's national saddle horse.
We considered a controlled pair or territory as successfully bred when a fledgling was observed during the last part of the breeding period (see [34] for further details).
This paper describes fledgling mortality in the captive breeding population, and seeks to identify factors associated with fledgling survival and, ultimately, to identify steps to mitigate fledgling mortality.
It was possible to monitor the survival of each male's young to the time of its own breeding, because all the young were banded before they fledged and most fledglings returned to the same woods to breed themselves.
These fluid-routing circuits are the building blocks for a new breed of microchips based on the fledgling technology known as microfluidics -- the manipulation of minute quantities of fluids in tiny channels, and all the minuscule plumbing it takes to do that.
In the reintroduced population of eagle-owls in Eifel Germany, occupied territories produced an average of 1.17 fledglings but not all occupying pair attempted to breed, with about 23% of those attempting to breed being unsuccessful.
That's why in late July, Mr. Smith hosted a sit-down dinner for 175 on a newly poured outdoor patio at the estate to benefit The Oxford American, a Southern literary magazine based in Conway, Ark., but also a fledgling group called the Heritage Poultry Conservancy, which is working to preserve slow-growing breeds like Plymouth Rocks and Silver Laced Wyandottes.
Social-media start-ups rubbed shoulders with better-known names such as Moshi Monsters, a game-playing website aimed at children, and with the new breed of finance websites that connect the cash-strapped with the flush.Can such fledglings compete for staff given the pay and job security offered by established tech giants, banks and consultancies?
A fledgling Islamist theocracy?
