We continued to check nests and process nestlings (see below) until the oldest nestling was 10 days of age, or until all of the nestlings died.
Therefore, once the oldest nestling reached 10 days of age, we stop processing nestlings.
Nestling sex had no significant influence on 12-day-old nestling body mass (p = 0.09), tarsus length (p = 0.50) or relative telomere length (p = 0.82).
Legge (2002) showed in her paper on siblicide in the laughing kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae) that when early deaths of surplus offspring were caused by the oldest nestling directly killing the youngest, rather than through a prolonged process of starvation, this enhanced the growth and survival prospects of the eventual survivors.
He was just days old, nestled with his brothers and sisters under the lid of a barbecue grill and so tiny that he fit in the palm of her hand.
Mr. Guerrero said the plan for Mariposa is largely geared toward attracting private investment to the neighborhood, which is one of the city's oldest, nestled near a light rail station, a higher education campus and the popular Art District on Santa Fe.
To experience the epicentre of quirky Singapore, head to the shabby but spirited Haji Lane in Kampong Glam, the city's Arab quarter, where old nestles among the new.
The oldest, nestled among dozens of boxy wall phones of walnut and oak, is a primitive 1876 "Butter Stamp" phone, the first one designed and sold by Bell.
ON APRIL 9th nearly 45,000 people crammed into Oaklawn, a 106-year-old track nestling in the foothills of the Ouachita mountains in central Arkansas, to watch Zenyatta, a spirited six-year-old mare, win her 16th consecutive race.
And if you browse their website you'll find that they've resurrected Connolly's beloved brainchild: the "Horizon Review" literary blog now nestles within the Salt site, rather like the old Horizons nestling on the magazine racks in 1940s railway stations.
