We confirmed fledging by sighting fledglings, listening for fledgling begging calls, or sighting parents carrying food or scolding near the nest. |
|
We tried to capture males around the estimated day of fledging of their nestlings by opportunely timing our capture sessions. |
|
Whatever the case, clamping down on freedom of expression in any of its forms is tantamount to crushing our fledging democracy. |
|
Collins has no truck with the notion that his fledging career has a rags to riches plotline beloved of comic book fantasy. |
|
Last summer, Caitlin observed bald eaglets fledging from nests at two sites. |
|
One female initiated a second nest attempt 24 days after fledging young from her initial nest and successfully fledged a second brood. |
|
Now, that hubris might lead to the dismantling of her fledging cartel, as the Argentine police claim to be hot on her tracks. |
|
Block was Wisconsin state director for the fledging Americans for Prosperity, a conservative group funded by the Koch brothers. |
|
But come June, the fledging African-American cable network Aspire wants you to have choices. |
|
Parental activity near the nest varied in that the frequency of parental passes and hovers within 1 m of the nest opening increased in the period before fledging. |
|
The availability of food has been shown to affect growth rates and subsequent survival to fledging of tern chicks. |
|
The male is responsible for feeding the young birds and finds his charges by listening for the fledging call. |
|
Many immature avocets spend their first summer after fledging well south of breeding areas, as do immature grey plovers, bar-tailed godwits and knot. |
|
The cygnets grow from approximately 300Â g at hatching to approximately 7Â kg at fledging, or first flight. |
|
An item often overlooked by fledging entrepreneurs is disability insurance. |
|
The amount of aid needed is small by international standards but will go a long way in shoring up the fledging state. |
|
Their parents tend them for at least six weeks after fledging, while they learn to fish on their own. |
|
Chicks are ringed and wing-tagged before fledging with flexible wing-marks fixed on patagium by aluminium staples on the top of each wing. |
|
Shortly before leaving the nest they develop a fledging call that sounds like chick-kee or chick-wee. |
|
He has also closed shops and sold off the fledging M Local convenience store brand. |
|
|
Nestlings fledge three to eight weeks after hatching, and are dependent on the parents for supplemental food for several days to weeks after fledging. |
|
After fledging, the young may continue to roost in the nest at night with their parents for several months. |
|
An incubator is a flexible instrument which supports fledging entrepreneurs in a variety of ways and according to their needs. |
|
In May 1977 I joined the fledging movement of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo... Together with those fellow women I began a learning process. |
|
Many fledging entrepreneurs believe they'll be able to secure start-up financing from their banks. |
|
Note that the smaller young may face greater challenges in terms of fledging successfully before the onset of winter. |
|
From the laying of the first egg to the fledging, or first flight, of the last young commonly takes 16 to 18 weeks. |
|
A breeding season can take over a year from laying to fledging, with a single egg laid in each breeding attempt. |
|
This led to a boom in the fledging travel and tourism industry. |
|
Our Father Dominic enkindled his fledging Order with the fire of his burning love for all creation having nothing to do with a disembodied religion. |
|
Nestling growth and fledging success in manipulated American Kestrel broods. |
|
John Adams, who was trying to persuade the Dutch to recognise the fledging republic, worried that Washington's actions would besmirch its reputation. |
|
The coloration of the juvenile plumage of the young whydah is identical to that of the host species, ensuring that the whydah will be fed after fledging. |
|
Males with larger repertoires had chicks that were heavier at fledging, and more of these chicks survived to breed than offspring of males with smaller repertoires. |
|
In its ten years since fledging, AEWA has spread its wings over very large parts of the flyway region, currently covering 51 countries, creating the condition for successful delivery of flyway conservation. |
|
At 14 days of age the tiny bodies are nearly completely feathered, and the young leave the nest at about 18 to 21 days, although the timing of fledging is quite variable. |
|
Laying, hatching and fledging were in progress. |
|
The period between fledging, or first flight, and dispersal is a critical time for all young birds of prey, because this is when they must develop the hunting skills that will make them self-supporting. |
|
A study on Kangaroo Island, South Australia, had an average time between hatching and fledging of 69 days. |
|
In 2014 eight young were fledged and by 2016 there were four nesting osprey pairs fledging eleven young. |
|
|
Heronries are a hive of activity at the moment with some youngsters already fledging. |
|
And they produced an average of almost one extra chickper nest that made it to fledging. |
|
For Rich Cohen, the '80s was his coming-of-age decade and Glencoe on the North Shore of Chicago his fledging perch. |
|
League commissioner David Baker was eager to see the season proceed as scheduled, particularly for the fledging Avengers. |
|
In Cumbria, young golden eagles were first seen hunting large prey 59 days after fledging. |
|
After fledging, the chicks spend the first few years of their lives at sea, returning to breed about five years later. |
|
The sooty tern is entirely oceanic when not breeding, and healthy young birds are not seen on land for up to five years after fledging until they return to breed. |
|
Two chicks successfully fledged from the Glaslyn osprey nest in 2005, followed by another two in 2006 and 2007 with a record three fledging in 2008, 2009 and last year. |
|
For the first couple of days after fledging, young birds often look pretty bewildered, perching themselves on a branch trying to make sense of the big wide world. |
|
Thus, our working hypothesis is that albatross chicks geographically imprint on their future breeding location some time between one month of age and fledging. |
|
We compared hatching success, fledging success, clutch size, and predation rates of parasitized and non-parasitized Savannah Sparrows nests using the Students t-test. |
|
If you're very committed, you may be able to raise it to fledging with mealworms, but young chicks cannot regulate their own temperature so the chances of survival are slim. |
|
Since Tricolored Blackbirds are colonial nesters, thousands of birds may be impacted by harvest operations that conflict with the fledging dates of the young birds. |
|
After fledging, juvenile birds often disperse further than adults, and to different areas, so are commonly sighted far from a species' normal range. |
|
The eggs hatch in 16 days, and then both parents search frantically for food the next 24 days, during which fledging, the growing of feathers, occurs. |
|
Albatross chicks fledge on their own and receive no further help from their parents, who return to the nest after fledging, unaware their chick has left. |
|
After fledging and leaving the care of their parents, young sparrows have a high mortality rate, which lessens as they grow older and more experienced. |
|
Fledging success was considered as a partial measure of reproductive success. |
|
Fledging success may not accurately reflect reproductive success if fledglings differ in quality. |
|
Fledging occurs at 66 to 75 days of age in Idaho and 70 to 81 days in Scotland. |
|