Sentence examples for small chick from inspiring English sources

Years ago, walking through woodland in the breeding season, I was privileged to see one rise up in front of me carrying a small chick between its legs.

The volunteer then places a Cadbury's Creme Egg inside each small chick to sell at Easter and raise funds for the charity.

Another endcap featured Breakout books under a sign that read "Hand-Picked Titles From Emerging Authors" and showed a picture of a small chick pecking its way out of a broken eggshell.

When participants responded correctly, but too slow, the response feedback was given as incorrect (in the form of the oval turning to a small chick and a short quacking sound), but for purposes of the analyses, the response was registered as correct.

It is a reconstruction of one of the park's original swan boats, a raftlike structure drawn here complete with a life-size swan, meticulously rendered with fluffed feathers and four small chicks.

Great horned owls and short-eared owls will kill both adults and chicks, and black-crowned night herons will also eat small chicks.

While stronger chicks are not aggressive towards weaker siblings, as is the case in some species, weak or small chicks are sometimes killed by their parents.

Adults fly off the nest to defecate, and even small chicks walk a short distance from the scrape to deposit their faeces.

Small chicks are fed by regurgitation; after about a week they are able to put their heads into their parent's pouch and feed themselves.

If a nest appears to have been discovered, the female may carry the chicks or eggs one by one to another location; the eggs are carried in the bill, but small chicks may be tucked under the wing.

Fuzzy was "probably an Easter purchase" bought "on a whim" for the holiday, she said, noting that bunnies and small chicks bought or given as gifts on the holiday often meet sad fates when the novelty wears off and their owners tire of them.