Sentence examples for may take eggs from inspiring English sources

According to the sages who issued the Biblical edicts of Deuteronomy, if you come upon a bird's nest, you may take eggs and nestlings, but you must leave the mother bird behind.

Healthy adults have no natural predators, but large birds of prey and mammalian predators, like foxes, may take eggs or hatchlings.

The ruddy turnstone will take eggs from unattended nests, and gulls may take chicks.

In Australia, Torresian crows, wedge-tailed eagles and white-bellied sea eagles take eggs or young, and tick infestation and viral infections may also be causes of mortality.

Lice eggs may take 7 to 10 days to hatch, so comb every day to ensure that all eggs or newly-hatched lice are removed.

Eggs may take several days to hatch, so it's important to continue treatment and removal, even if it seems like the problem is getting better.

The eggs may be deposited singly or in small groups, or may take the form of spherical egg masses, rafts or long strings.

Egg deposition may take place shortly after mating but in many plethodontids may be delayed for several months, the eggs being fertilized by stored sperm.

Organisations may take on more of an egg-timer shape, with people rising quickly in their 30s and 40s, and then rejoining the wider workforce for the final third of their career.

Incubation lasts thirteen days, although the last egg laid may take 24 hours longer than the first to hatch.

It may take a while for the egg to drain and you may have to help it along by moving the pin around the hole slightly.