Perhaps because of the ordeal of bringing a chick to adulthood, fledglings are spoiled with every possible advantage to ensure their survival. |
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The young form flocks with other fledglings and adults when leaving the nesting area after breeding season. |
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We cannot yet reliably locate, capture, and study fledglings and recently independent young birds. |
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Some observers have suggested that carrion on train tracks actually aids overall eagle survival by providing fledglings with a ready food supply. |
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Females built the nest and incubated alone, but both parents fed nestlings and fledglings. |
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Now the three fledglings are taking to the skies every day as they prepare to fly the nest, although they return home to the quarry each night. |
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They have protected the nest since March, and continue to do so now the fledglings are almost ready to fly the nest. |
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These females were still observed feeding the fledglings while at the same time incubating their second clutch. |
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Yet, the presence of cowbird chicks is often accompanied by a reduction of the number of host chicks and fledglings. |
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The fledglings had practically no tails, so they looked like little fuzzballs. |
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At this point the band were more psychedelic fledglings than soaring prog jazz birds of paradise. |
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Wright, studying babblers at the same site over a three year period, found that larger groups produced more fledglings. |
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He looked so baffled and afraid that she knew immediately that he was used to dealing with fledglings and revenants. |
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Fledging success may not accurately reflect reproductive success if fledglings differ in quality. |
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When the first brood fledges, the female starts the second brood and the male feeds the fledglings. |
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The adults continue to provide some food for the fledglings for about a month after they fledge. |
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In monogamous species, both the male and female build the nest, incubate eggs, brood young and feed nestlings and fledglings. |
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We confirmed fledging by sighting fledglings, listening for fledgling begging calls, or sighting parents carrying food or scolding near the nest. |
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After a third larval stage they pupate in the nest material and emerge as imagos after the fledglings have left the nest. |
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It is incredible to think that these adorable fledglings grow into such large birds. |
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Neverthless, it is possible that survival rates of nestlings and fledglings might be influenced by spatial factors or by the identity of their social group. |
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In the fall, the fledglings leave the nest and become disoriented by bright lights. |
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Sometimes, she has to do a lot of convincing to persuade the fledglings to take the plunge, at heights of up to 10 metres. |
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Meanwhile, its fledglings have remained safe and sound, either by keeping quiet and staying put or by scattering in all directions. |
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Some people call it today Seagulls. It sort of means seagulls, but it really means seagull fledglings. |
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The bird lives there for free along with his mates and fledglings. |
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Witnesses saw the technician pick up live gull fledglings and place them into a plastic bag. |
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The helpers provision the couple's fledglings with a steady supply of lerp, sugary casings secreted by plant-sucking insects. |
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A few days after the fledglings leave the nest, the swelling and vascularization begin to subside. |
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A lower retinol concentration may impair growth and development of heron fledglings. |
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First, some individual gulls specialize in preying on terns and will take eggs, chicks, fledglings, and even adults. |
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Some of them are mere fledglings, as compared to those who have been soaring high for decades. |
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Not only does the noise go on for hours but these infernal machines kill or maim thousands of hedgehogs, frogs and fledglings every spring and summer. |
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The trios move in alternation as light from above picks them out, the grounded people waving their limbs like neophyte swimmers or fledglings learning to fly. |
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By late summer, as they prepared to leave the nests, the fledglings were fitted with satellite tags so their movements could be monitored. |
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Nests thus attacked yielded, on average, but a single fledgling, whereas those with a cowbird egg in them yielded three warbler fledglings. |
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This will have the greatest impact in the summer period, when the flight radius of these birds is limited by fledglings. |
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We checked all tagged nests daily to record laying dates of the eggs, clutch size, hatching dates, number of hatchlings, and number of fledglings. |
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They take in injured fledglings and even a dog that had been sprayed by a skunk! |
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In practice young fledglings were of baie use to anyone so the prohibition tended to protect both mother and young. |
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At this time the fledglings look like the female, except that the young male's throat is streaked with dusky and, occasionally, red colour. |
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Consequently, poachers needed to capture an even larger number of fledglings to make ends meet, further exacerbating the impacts. |
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In 2004, however, the number of fledglings was down to four. |
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The eagles would seek out the nest sites by watching the parent pipits bringing in food before swooping down to pluck the wee fledglings out. |
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Neither of last year's fledglings ever flew the coop. |
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Try to spot the first of the fluffy blackbird fledglings, and keep an eye out for declining species such as house martins and song thrushes. |
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On a diet of insects, including beetles, cutworms, and grasshoppers, the fledglings grow rapidly, doubling their body weight two or three times during the first week of life. |
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But the summer before United won the double in 1995-96, Alex Ferguspentpeno no money on transfers and instead put his faith in his fledglings, Beckham, Neville, Scholes et al. It may never happen again. |
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At Idealab Mr Gross is already well past that. To avoid the nest becoming too crowded, some of the more mature companies will soon have to leave, making room for fledglings. |
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For starters, AAF sponsors the National Student Advertising Competition across its 215 college chapters to gather fledglings into its fold. |
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Its reproductive success is not in question, since the average number of fledglings is high compared with that of other passerine species that are not suffering drops in population. |
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When you see hummingbirds at your feeder, then fledglings of larger birds like robins and grackles will be begging for food from their parents. |
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When reintroductions have been attempted for peregrines, the most serious impediments were these two owls routinely picking off nestlings, fledglings and adults by night. |
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Although not typically able to capture a healthy grown bird, eggs, nestlings and fledglings of large bird species can be very attractive to brown bears. |
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Fledglings frequently ride atop their parents to avoid the jaws of snapping turtles and carnivorous fish. |
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Fledglings of altricial species begin to make independent decisions of movement and need to select habitat that minimizes risk of predation and optimizes thermoregulation. |
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