Sentence examples for her nestlings from inspiring English sources

The group spotted a woodpecker and a juvenile starling, before pausing to watch a female cardinal feeding her nestlings.

After the eggs hatch, she usually concentrates her feeding at flowers that supply tiny insects as well as nectar insects contain the protein that her nestlings need in order to grow.

Urban herring gull nestlings calling for food with an owl decoy in the background, in Bristol.

That might be enough to compensate for the lower number of fledglings per nest.Her idea was that cuckoo nestlings engage in a form of chemical warfare with predators.

The cuckoo's laying of eggs in other birds' nests, and her chick's subsequent ejection of other nestlings – obligate brood parasitism, to use the scientific term – was for centuries a source of anxiety to natural historians and writers, because it represented a routine, murderous selfishness in a natural order meant to embody God's omnibenevolence.

The female incubates the eggs and broods the young, and the male provides food for her and when they hatch, for the nestlings as well.

Yet both the mother parasites, that remove one or more host eggs when laying her own egg [7], and older cuckoo nestlings, that are larger and beg more intensely than host chicks [8], appear to be better equipped to eliminate eggs or cohabiting nestmates.

The larger insects are typically fed to nestlings by the breeding female and her helpers, including the breeding male.

More commonly, the female flys off and abandons her nest temporarily, leaving the eggs or small nestlings exposed, when a human approaches it.

For the first three days after hatching, the mother feeds the nestlings alone, with food brought to her by the father.

While the typical female cavorts wide and far, her loyal partner stays at home and cares for nestlings that may not be his own.