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Meaning of "nestlings"

Nestling refers to a young bird that has not yet left the nest. In English, it is used in the context of ornithology and birdwatching
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Nestlings are covered in dark grey down feathers.
Predation of eggs and nestlings is quite common.
Nestlings may be preyed on by the rufous treepie.
That it protects nestlings from ticks or insects.
Females mostly incubate eggs and nestlings.
The eggs and nestlings are at more of a risk.
Both sexes bring food to the nestlings.
Later the nestlings mainly get seeds.
Both parents care for the nestlings.
Not all nestlings that died were cannibalized.
An active nest is one in which there are eggs or nestlings.
Her nestlings are helpless and need constant feeding.
The parents and nestlings are in conflict.
Nestlings to open our mouths with the incessant.
Corvids are the primary threat to eggs and nestlings.

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The nestlings are altricial and nidicolous.
It was built on a branch of a tree and contained three nestlings.
Infested nestlings hosted an average of five larvae each.
Both sexes share incubation and care of nestlings.
Cowbird nestlings also grow large very quickly.
Female speckled hummingbirds incubate and feed nestlings.
Three nestlings appear to have been turfed out.
This bird is not the parent of these nestlings.
And the nestlings have a very interesting way of doing that.
Both sexes feed the nestlings.
These peregrine nestlings would seem exposed and vulnerable.
First meal for a few hours aged nestlings.
The begging cries of nestlings could put them in danger.
Nestlings can look spiny.
Delivery rate of food to nestlings was positively correlated to nestling age.
Nestlings are helpless and naked at hatching but grow quickly.
No sex bias has been detected within nestlings or juveniles.
Nestlings mature in about a month.
The group is fearless in defence of the nestlings against intruders.
Nestlings fed by both adults.
Cached food is sometimes used to feed nestlings and fledglings.
Nestlings of redwing blackbirds and marsh wrens were also attacked.
We recorded their presence during the routine checks of nestlings.
Nestlings have been known to.
Both parents feed the nestlings for another three weeks.
A small portion of their diet is composed of bird eggs and nestlings.
Some observations indicate that nestlings are fed by the female alone.
They also eat birds as well as bird eggs and nestlings.
Yet rural nestlings grew at a faster rate than their suburban counterparts.
Our abandoned nestlings.
The nestlings are hidden under cover for one week after hatching.
Males and helpers aid in feeding the nestlings and fledglings.
Nestlings are naked with dark grey down on the head and wings.
We forget how largely these songsters or their eggs or their nestlings.
Fate of the nestlings.

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