“The female stays on the nest and broods the young for the first week or so after they hatch.”

“In others, it may include completion of a rite of passage, such as getting buried up to your chin in an ant nest on your thirteenth birthday.”

“No sooner are you snug in your new nest than you find that units on your floor are being used as a hotel, with people coming and going.”

“Mostly I'm looking forward to being just 40 something when I'm an empty nester.”

“A late nester, the female Gadwall picks the nest site, which is usually near water and surrounded by dense weeds or grass.”

“My temperament is equal parts nester and quester, but I need the former in order to sustain the latter.”

“Mating for life, the birds share the duties of feeding a young nestling by regurgitation.”

“Like all lace chape makers whose images can be found in the 'Hausbucher der Nurnberger Zwolfbruderstiftung', Dyetz Nestler is depicted in Amb.”

“Sherry Kroll, Jeffry Nestler, Mandeep Dhami, Dinesh Kapur and Dennis Slater.”

“To charm wavering Tories, the Lib Dems have grabbed a nestful of shiny rightwing policies.”

“See a nestful of newly hatched wood ducks being told to take a 15-foot jump to join their mother in the lake below.”

“The number of feeding trips per day for a pair with a nestful of six young varied from 119, two days after hatching, to 353 trips per day 18 days after hatching.”

“Mating for life, the birds share the duties of feeding a young nestling by regurgitation.”

“The hatchlings have a beak with a raptorial hook that they use to stab host nestlings.”

“Other studies even showed that nestlings fed by people were less afraid of new things until age 6 months than were birds reared by their parents.”

“After hatching, the altricial nestlings are brooded for 1 to 2 weeks depending on the weather.”