Sentence examples for those nestlings from inspiring English sources

For this validation procedure, we used only those nestlings with a hatching order that was known but not by the observers.

The preferred locations for the autumn display are old Eurasian tree sparrow nests, particularly those where nestlings had hatched.

Three of those 49 nestlings did not accept manual feeding and were excluded from further analysis.

So the first flight for these nestlings is crucial, said Jonathan Wright, a behavioral ecologist at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim.

An analysis of growth rate is inherently biased against finding negative effects of hatching order because, among late-hatched nestlings, those that have the most robust growth rates and therefore those that are most similar to early-hatched nestlings are those that live the longest and contribute the most data to the analysis.

We also found that both Se and Hg concentrations in adult swallows were significantly higher than those observed in nestlings at both urban and rural reaches (Se: t = − 2.83, P = 0.033, df = 3; Hg: t = − 3.22, P = 0.024, df = 3).

A multi-year study of a large subset of the nestlings measured over this time period revealed that those in the best condition and with the strongest PHA responses were more likely to be recruited to the breeding population and more likely to breed through two years of age [ 27].

Despite this, the nestlings in enlarged broods had higher plasma carotenoid levels than those in reduced broods.

Conversely, migrant Liberian hunters sometimes catch the nestlings for food.

The rate of mass gain of cuckoo nestlings during the nestling period differed amongst those that evicted differing number of eggs (Table 2).

They tracked the jackdaws with colored leg bands, ensuring that those who received extra nestlings one year also did so the next year, and those who lost nestlings always raised smaller broods.