Sentence examples for nestlings from inspiring English sources

They microwaved the nests to kill any parasites and then returned both nests and nestlings.

Reprints Related items Monitor: The trees have eyesJun 7th 2007Californian condors appear to have a penchant for collecting pieces of junk, incorporating them into their nests, and feeding them to their nestlings.

A cuckoo chick usually pushes the original nestlings out, so that it can monopolise the food brought by its unwitting adoptive parents.

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.

That indicates having a cuckoo or two in the nest really is a defence.To prove the point, she did some experiments—swapping cuckoo nestlings from the nests where they had hatched into other nests without cuckoos.

The upshot is that crows which raise both their own and cuckoo nestlings to the point when they can fly fledge fewer of their own chicks than do crows which fledge a clutch without cuckoos.

NESTLING high among Colorado's snow-capped peaks is Rocky Mountain Institute, a natural-resources think-tank.

And when she offered meat smeared in cuckoo-nestling secretion to feral cats and birds of prey, which are predators of crow nests in the study area, they would not touch it.

This suggests these chemicals have a nestling-specific purpose, rather than being mere waste products.

NESTLING beside the Tinguiririca river, between the north-south Pan-American Highway and the Pacific, the Colchagua valley is sometimes compared to Tuscany.

NESTLING in the rolling valleys of central France, between fields of wheat and grazing cows, the village of Donzy seems from another age.