Sentence examples for fledgling from from inspiring English sources

It could be better to protect the weak fledgling from its predators and teach it to fly later, than to insist on self-reliance and take the chance that it will be eaten on the ground.

Since the nestling period is not prolonged in proportion to the drop in feeding rate, an individual fledgling from a larger brood is likely to weigh less when it leaves the nest.

Fledglings from both nest types were hand-reared and tested the following year in dyadic choice experiments for their odour preference.

Many years, on that inaugural journey, some fledglings from 55 Water Street are unable to mimic their parents' effortless loops around the sky and through the canyons of the Financial District.

In one hair-raising scene, a heavy tree bough overloaded with passenger pigeons (now extinct) breaks under their weight, plunging down with a seething mass of the birds as they feed, fight, fornicate and lose fledglings from their nests.

Old (≥2 years) male wheatears had higher reproductive success than yearling males because their nests were less likely to be predated, they produced more fledglings from successful broods and they were more likely to start a new breeding attempt following a complete failure.

Youngsters that have recently left the nest are in even more danger: They are three times more likely to die than fledglings from other territories.

(D) Mortality rate of junco fledglings for the first week after fledging in nests where fledge age was experimentally delayed had substantially lower mortality rate than fledglings from control (normal fledge age) nests and comparable to other species based on wing length.

Buildings are preferred to trees in wetter climates in the British Isles and provide better protection for fledglings from inclement weather.

There are normally two broods, except in Siberia, where there is only one, the male feeding the fledglings from the first brood while the female sits on the second clutch.

Two or three broods may be raised each year; birds breeding in colonies produce more eggs and fledglings from their first broods than solitary pairs, but the reverse is true for second and third clutches.