Sentence examples for pair of nests from inspiring English sources

We included brood size manipulation (BSM; enlarged, reduced) and nestling sex as fixed factors, and duplicate (the pair of nests) and nest of origin (nested within duplicate) as random effects.

T-DNA-flanking genomic regions were amplified using a pair of nested primers specific to the T-DNA borders in combination with a pair of nested primers (AP1, AP2) specific to the adapters of the Clontech GenomeWalker kit.

Virtually every square foot of the island above the high-tide line is occupied by at least one pair of nesting terns.

But even in the sanctuary of the apartment he shares with his mother, a pair of nesting finches and some goldfish, the war intrudes.

We headed to Nubble Island in Passamaquoddy Bay where the marine biologist on board told us there has been a pair of nesting eagles for 15 years.

Mr. Holtzman wore crisp suits to the ballpark, and had eyebrows so dense they looked like a pair of nesting voles.

Birders can spy on a pair of nesting common black-hawks by Rio Grande Village, glimpse the only Colima warblers north of Mexico and even spot a black-capped vireo in the transition zone between mountain woodlands and desert.

The live TV event, in which 60 cameras helped follow the progress of a pair of nesting peregrine falcons in central London and a pair of sea eagles on the island of Mull, was watched by more than 4 million viewers.

[I remember stopping by one year during spring break and finding Miriam in a lawn chair out on the fringe of the ball field, wrapped in an old sleeping bag, keeping watch over a pair of nesting turtles while a pickup game went on behind her.

The second is to compute a pair of nested grids, one coarse and one fine.

The technique is applied to a nonlinear oscillator with a pair of nested homoclinic and heteroclinic orbits.