How To Use Nestling In A Sentence
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The next day she said the landscape as they cruised along the River Rhine was very picturesque with little villages nestling in the hills.
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I woke up this morning with a knot of excitement and anticipation nestling comfortably in my stomach.
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April, without entering the cottage, hangs over the hungry nestlings watching them.] _April.
Poems
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It was covered in fucoid algae and delicate yellow and orange plumose anemones that drew us in closer, as there were often a few gems nestling in them.
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Carrion Crow nests are conspicuous and we were able to observe birds delivering food to nestlings using spotting scopes.
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Nestling next to the ladies of the night were several mustached, glazed-eyed Afghan men who occasionally took unsteady steps onto a makeshift dance floor to bust some surprisingly graceful traditional moves.
The Longest War
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She rocked the gleaming harp towards her, nestling it into its accustomed spot on her right shoulder.
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Two ugly reptilian little nestlings and an unhatched egg that was probably still a goer.
Times, Sunday Times
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Magpie nestlings, as well as most nidicolous birds, change skin color from red to orange.
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Similarly, parents might lure young from the nest by perching nearby with food or by calling to nestlings.
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All nestlings were banded, which enabled a study of recruitment to the breeding population.
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He tied silver cords around the legs of a group of phoebes, and spotted two of the banded nestlings when they returned the next year.
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A nestling's gape, or wide open beak, provides a stimulus to the parents to feed it.
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Five or six birds - doves, robins, bluebirds - had perched on the windowsill, and were affectionately nestling against her hands and arms.
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Any cuckoo nestling that lost its hold, even momentarily, over its host would have died as a result.
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The idea of a little town nestling between two babbling brooks is a beautiful one and we owe it to ourselves to keep it as beautiful as possible.
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They were given permanent metal colored bands on the last nest-visit when the A nestling was 32 days old.
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Jezrael's body arched languorously; her dream-self believed she was nestling closer to the Magyar.
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All nests that contained eggs or nestlings were classified as occupied.
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At 106 degrees, the eggs will addle (become unviable) or nestlings will die of heat stress.
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Proportions were first averaged for each nestling with multiple bill load estimates.
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For example, have allopatric populations of a parasitic species independently evolved egg or nestling mimicry of the same host species?
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She sat back, nestling against his chest.
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AT ONE O'CLOCK they saw a little town in the distance, nestling on a cliff that looked down eastward on the purple Pacific.
DESPERADOES
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It was pleasant beyond words to sit nestlingly in a pluffy chair, and hear about all the little lightly-treated scholarly day-before-yesterday things her father had used to talk of.
The Rose-Garden Husband
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Helpers are involved with territory defense, and all aspects of reproduction: incubation, brooding, feeding, and guarding nestlings and fledglings.
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Still attached, the 12 - pounder anti-aircraft gun rests on the seabed with its barrel nestling between a pair of bollards.
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Why are Stella's precious, recherché creations nestling here, among the bog-standard sportsware, the hoodies, the baseball caps, the functional swimsuits, the sweat-pants?
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[I] t is a long stretch to compare a half-starved bird that kills all her nestlings to a well-nourished woman who just delivered a baby and gets depressed two days later.
An Evolutionary Model of Depression, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Enemy number two is the house wren that routinely takes over nest boxes occupied by bluebirds and other hole-nesting birds, by puncturing the eggs or removing young nestlings…
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Imber is a village nestling in a shallow, partly wooded valley in the centre of the western part of the Plain.
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The ectoparasites, in particular the hematophagous swallow bug (Hemiptera: Cimicidae: Oeciacus vicarius), are responsible for much of the nestling mortality and nest failures that occur in our study area.
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The number of food deliveries made to supplemented and control nestlings were counted from the observation blind.
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They crossed the street to the rectory, an old-fashioned house nestling among the trees, the parapet and pillars of its broad veranda almost hidden by a heavy growth of ampelopsis.
Charred Wood
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Nestlings use this beak hook in lunging pecks and bites to the backs and heads of their siblings that result in scratches, bruises, and skin lesions.
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Situated around 160 miles south of Scotland with a third of its land nestling in the Peak District, it seems something of a surprise that Sheffield has become one of a few cities in the world to have its own tartan.
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One more question," stalled Ariakas, the hilt of his sword nestling comfortably in his palm.
Emperor of Ansalon
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Supposedly, martens use a nest-box as a search image while hunting for nestlings and adult birds.
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No smugglers cottages nestling against romantic cliffs.
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I thought the idea of nestling an arena inside four towers was really, really interesting, and I thought it would have been a really exciting project.
Talking SHoP About Atlantic Yards
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Sometimes I think I'm broke and then I'll find a €50 note nestling between a taxi receipt and an ATM statement.
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So we shouldn't be surprised to find this set drooling over the prospect of "nestling" in the public sector, particularly the K-12 education "market.
Brian Jones: Karl Marx: Teacher of the Year?
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Crows, Cuckoos and Parakeets are very destructive, parakeets not only destroy fruit tree buds but also raid nests and kill nestlings.
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We returned nestlings to nests as quickly as possibly after processing.
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Quick feet, lightening turns and shots taken early often mean that a half-chance is often nestling in the goal before the keeper has a sniff of it.
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We provided food supplements to half of the nestlings in each nest during the nestling period.
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Nestlings usually fledge before they can fly and continue to receive parental care for 18 to 20 days.
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This beguiling little loch lies in the hills to the west of Ashkirk and north of Hawick, nestling between Belmanshaws and the Dod at a height of 320 metres.
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After hatching, the altricial nestlings are brooded for 1 to 2 weeks depending on the weather.
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In altricial species, the parents of hungry nestlings may be helped in feeding and guarding their young by other adult birds who have not bred that year.
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The researchers say that nestlings in at least half of the nests they studied were eaten, mainly by martens and weasels.
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It was a two-storey white house nestling just within the last gentle curve up to the headland.
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The researchers say that nestlings in at least half of the nests they studied were eaten, mainly by martens and weasels.
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Birds not ringed as nestlings were aged and sexed according to the method of Jenni and Winkler.
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He or she is coiled up, at head-height, and even when our guide pulls the branches in which the snake is nestling down a little to give us better view, the boa remains in steadfast slumber.
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We passed on staying in one of the hotel's 12 scrummy rooms and opted for one of the log cabins nestling among a Blair Witch-type forest of birch and ash just behind the Four Seasons.
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The hatchlings have a beak with a raptorial hook that they use to stab host nestlings.
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While the tabby slumped down to mew her pain the tom rampaged among the females and the other nestlings, tearing throats, breaking knees and elbows, and tossing the smaller ones against the closet wall.
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Lahardane is a picturesque village nestling at the foot of Nephin and easily accessible from all major North Mayo areas.
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Until recently, local concern for nestling architecture into the landscape was implicit and largely unarticulated.
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There will be many complaints about the noise, danger and disturbance yet again of construction work traffic impinging on the sleepy area nestling by a perfect spot on the River Wharfe.
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But an eggshell is a fortress compared to the feathers and gossamer skin that shield this minute nestling from all the evils of the world.
Birdology
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Females built the nest and incubated alone, but both parents fed nestlings and fledglings.
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This year, we achieved nirvana, taking a house nestling under Hay Bluff where, after a morning spent quizzing festival attendees about their literary output, I could slip on my boots and head up the hills with dog and children in tow.
Rob Lowe plus books – what could be better? | Mariella Frostrup
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Suspicion is first aroused if breeding wrens find a nestling home alone, as the imposter will eject all the natural offspring.
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Faux fur is everywhere for autumn, nestling comfortably alongside leather, suede and sheepskin on the rails.
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The redstart is the most active of the active warblers, and the number of gnats, flies, caterpillars, moths, other insects and their eggs that these birds consume or feed to their nestlings in one day is incredible.
Ohio Arbor Day 1913: Arbor and Bird Day Manual Issued for the Benefit of the Schools of our State
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She leaned against him, nestling in as he put his arm around her.
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After the child goes missing, time-lapse photography depicts the clouds rapidly rolling in and nestling on the horizon above the rocky outcrops.
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Unlike certain avian brood parasites, such as cuckoos and honeyguides, hatchling brown-headed cowbirds rarely directly destroy or actively displace host eggs and nestlings.
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Burrow tunnels were examined each day; in 1999, younger nestlings left the supplements uneaten.
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It was only a minute before the presidential vehicle was pulling up in a distant part of the airport, nestling beside a gangly four-engined plane dressed in dull military colours whose wings seemed to stretch awkwardly like those of a young crane.
The Edge of Madness
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Lilac-crowned Parrots are predominantly granivorous and do not supplement nestling diets with arthropod prey.
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Also a young robin, a fledgeling great-tit being given a lesson in how to work bird feeders by a harrassed-looking parent, a couple of adolescent blackbirds from the parents' first brood I think they are now feeding nestlings on their second, and a noisy family of chaffinches.
Archive 2009-06-01
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A beer straight from the mini-bar seemed a fitting reward for a two-hour drive, or thereabouts, to our chosen destination, nestling on the Derbyshire-Staffordshire border.
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I fear I should tire of the mute, monotonous innocence of the lamb; I should erelong feel as burdensome the nestling dove which never stirred in my bosom: but my patience would exult in stilling the flutterings and training the energies of the restless merlin.
Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
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Just as I was dozing off, scrambled eggs nestling comfortably in my tummy and my brain relaxing into a deep and beautiful slumber, my sister called.
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Males and females have similar roles during breeding; both help build nests, incubate eggs, feed nestlings and fledglings and remove fecal sacks.
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Both parents feed two to seven nidicolous nestlings.
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She sat back, nestling against his chest.
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If growth rates are sensitive to such selection, they should be more rapid in this species than in low-latitude or low-altitude congeners, and the nestling period should also be shortened.
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More specifically, the energy requirements of nestlings can be used in a bioenergetic model of the bioaccumulation of toxicants that incorporates growth, energetics, food intake, and assimilation efficiency.
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How convenient it was that all the prey species were excavating holes and hollows and leafy chambers, and stuffing them with helpless nestlings just when he needed them.
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Females build the nest, incubate eggs, and brood nestlings, but both sexes choose the nest site and feed offspring.
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Just as I was dozing off, scrambled eggs nestling comfortably in my tummy and my brain relaxing into a deep and beautiful slumber, my sister called.
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As a result, seven additional nestling goshawks (three in 1996 and four in 1997) were not measured or banded; however, we still followed the fates of those birds throughout the study.
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High densities of argasid ticks have been linked to egg and seabird nestlings desertion and lower survival of Cattle Egrets.
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Unlike common cuckoos, young indigobirds are reared along with their hosts and they mimic the mouth markings of host nestlings.
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But, on the way, nestling in the very heart of Europe, perfectly civilised and strifeless, jewelled all over with freedom, is another country which he has not visited since his accession -- a country which, oddly enough, none but I seems to expect him to visit.
Yet Again
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Nestlings were counted on the expected day of hatching, and on one or two consecutive days until the last egg hatched (eggs usually hatch within 3 days).
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If a bird was banded as a nestling, its age was known.
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A small wood nestling in a Pennine valley has won a top award for a band of tree-planting volunteers.
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Differences in competitive abilities between nestlings at hatching catalyze the development of dominance hierarchies within broods, which concentrate resource deprivation onto the lowest-ranking member.
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Equally inevitably I would be found nestling in the safe, comforting arms of my aunt in her kitchen.
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Only female hummingbirds are involved in parental care; they must incubate eggs, brood young hatchlings, and feed the chicks as nestlings and fledglings.
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It is a town happily nestling in its quiet natural environment.
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For example, have allopatric populations of a parasitic species independently evolved egg or nestling mimicry of the same host species?
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She took her long crimpy hair and, to the delight of her mother, pinned it up so that it puffed out in a soft nestling mound above the nape of her neck.
Buried Alive, The Biography of Janis Joplin
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Our evidence from the diet of nestling thick-billed murres suggests that a switch from an Arctic to a Subarctic fish community occurred from 1997 onwards.
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The Port Elizabeth waterfront is lined with neat wooden villas and small hotels nestling among the palms.
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In addition, they visit neighboring nests, where they attempt to remove nestlings to induce divorce between the female and the male nest owner.
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Small insectivorous passerines, which typically feed the nestlings with small food items at a very high rate, are ideal as model species because limitations in food supply are likely to have an immediate effect on nestling hunger.
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The idea of a little town nestling between two babbling brooks is a beautiful one and we owe it to ourselves to keep it as beautiful as possible.
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Cowbird nestlings were placed into nests prior to the hatching of host nestlings to simulate the shorter incubation periods characteristic of parasitic species.
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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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The Bourgas Lake is a nestling site of pelicans, ibis, and herons.
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Nestlings were initially given only metal bands and were banded with color rings if they then remained in the study population.
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It's the first study to show that birds have learned to recognize and reject cuckoo nestlings.
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She takes a moment to reapply her lipstick, run a comb through her hair and have her picture taken, before nestling into one of the café's comfy leather sofas for a chat about her new job.
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The emerald green plateau of playing fields nestling between the towns of Beith and Kilbirnie is the sort of lakeside greenbelt site most junior rugby clubs can only dream of.
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Sarah lay there peacefully, the child nestling by her side.
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In contrast, effects of brood size on cooling dynamics are much smaller in species whose nestlings sit alongside each other.
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Surprisingly, one way that such males can acquire a mate is to kill the young nestlings and then pair with the female who has to start a new family.
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They scavenge for carrion and garbage and also prey on rodents and on the eggs and nestlings of other birds.
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Nestling in the hillside in the grounds of the Estate are some of the most exclusive holiday homes in the world.
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To estimate nest age, we candled 1-2 eggs in each nest or aged nestlings from voucher photographs of known-age young.
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She could feel herself nestling into the shoulders of the gull, oily satin-smooth feathers smelling of fish.
A Small Death in the Great Glen
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The iguanas also devour sea turtle eggs and shorebird nestlings.
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In a broader survey of this population of kookaburras, the youngest nestling in broods of three was killed in one third of nests.
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To monitor the effects of feather-clipping on body condition, females were recaptured and weighed on the second day of incubation and again when nestlings were 4 days old.
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Females build the nest, incubate eggs, and brood nestlings, but both sexes choose the nest site and feed offspring.
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Semi-consciously she half-turned on her side, curved her free arm on the pillow and nestled her head on it, and drew her body up in nestling curves in the way Dick knew she loved to sleep.
CHAPTER XXXI
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In passerines, altricial nestlings possess brightly colored gapes and engage in vigorous behavioral displays directed toward a feeding parent.
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Because anis have altricial nestlings, the provisioning help of all breeding adults is essential.
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Nestling in her belly-button was what appeared to be a large diamond.
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In altricial bird species, parents need to provide their growing nestlings with food to prevent starvation, ensure proper development, and minimize any negative effects of a poor start in life.
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I noted the number of phoebe and cowbird eggs and nestlings at each visit.
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Nests were revisited on the expected hatch day and every 3 days after hatching to assess nest success and nestling survival.
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They've attenuated the wildness with nestling stone villages overcome with gardens and stalwart serenity.
Times, Sunday Times
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He picked out another nestling from the young brood, and again sailed away.
Rural Hours
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In one nest, some nestlings died before 7 days of age and were therefore excluded from the analysis.
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Often only one nestling fledges from broods in this population of brown pelicans, so the critical fight may be over who is ranked first, rather than who avoids being ranked last.
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She said the government had invested a lot in the resort's security which is a popular tourist destination nestling in the azure waters of the Sulu Sea.
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A total of 1072 eggs hatched, and 518 nestlings fledged successfully.
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Nestling at the foot of this mountain amphitheater, and washed by the bay, straggling lengthways and up and down, is Funchal, with its brilliant white houses and green facings glittering in the sun.
The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton
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Differences in competitive abilities between nestlings at hatching catalyze the development of dominance hierarchies within broods, which concentrate resource deprivation onto the lowest-ranking member.
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Birds were ringed as nestlings or when breeding and measured using standard procedures.
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This is fortunate, because house wren nestlings have prodigious appetites.
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In birds, the nestlings vocalize, stretch their bodies, flap their wings, and jockey for favorable feeding positions in the nest.
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Various raptor species formed the next most common group, depredating seven nests, all with nestlings.
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Adult birds bearing a few gapeworms are a serious danger to nestlings and if possible should therefore be prevented from eating infective larvae in transport hosts such as earthworms.
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For several months, conservators and curators carefully wrapped books in acid-free tissue before nestling them in Ziploc bags.
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I saw a cottage nestling in the woods.
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On the other hand, how did they know there wasn't a meat cleaver or chainsaw nestling in that innocent looking guitar case?
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Nestling between the likes of The Fast and The Furious and Rush Hour, Half Past Dead tries unambitiously to be this year's biggest action flick.
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Back at the Vanagon, nestling under the flannel sleeping bags in our second-story pop-top, marinating in diesel exhaust, I said, Those were your people in there.
Kook
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Sex of hatching-year birds and age of adults could not be determined, except when birds that had been banded as nestlings or juveniles later returned to the study area as adults.
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In addition, the amount of food altricial nestlings receive from their parents varies depending on how much food is in the environment.
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More aggressive than their cousins, Caspians may supplement their fish diet with other birds' eggs and nestlings.
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Crina Bottom, a detached house nestling in the heart of the famous Dales landscape, does not have mains electricity and is serviced by a generator which runs on oil.
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Never was he apart from Hylas, not when midnoon was high in heaven, not when Dawn with her white horses speeds upwards to the dwelling of Zeus, not when the twittering nestlings look towards the perch, while their mother flaps her wings above the smoke-browned beam; and all this that the lad might be fashioned to his mind, and might drive a straight furrow, and come to the true measure of man.
Theocritus Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose
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So why do superb fairy-wrens appear to be unique in their ability to desert cuckoo nestlings?
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Hen flea infestations significantly reduced nestling body mass, tarsus and wing length, and the number of young fledged by the hosts.
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All nestlings were returned to their home nests at the end of each trial.
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We returned nestlings to their nests and repaired cavities with duct tape.
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Females built the nest and incubated alone, but both parents fed nestlings and fledglings.
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A nest was considered successful if at least one nestling was fledged.
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Sarah lay there peacefully, the child nestling by her side.
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I woke up this morning with a knot of excitement and anticipation nestling comfortably in my stomach.
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Once the eggs hatch, both sexes deliver food to the nestlings, though the female will also spend much of her time in the nest cavity, especially when fledglings are young and unable to thermoregulate effectively.
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Only female hummingbirds are involved in parental care; they must incubate eggs, brood young hatchlings, and feed the chicks as nestlings and fledglings.
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Parents trying to feed their nestlings can keep their own bellies filled by stoking up at our suet and seed feeders, but as for their young… we don't know.
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The ectoparasites, in particular the hematophagous swallow bug (Hemiptera: Cimicidae: Oeciacus vicarius), are responsible for much of the nestling mortality and nest failures that occur in our study area.
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It is quite possible, even likely, that some studies misclassify fates of nests that are depredated late in the nestling stage, leading to overestimates of nesting success.
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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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Two cuckoo and two magpie nestlings were removed from different nests a day before being tested together in a same artificial nest.
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Territorial males sired the majority of offspring, but residents and transients also sired small numbers of nestlings.
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On July 11 the second brood of four nestlings fledged.
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Fortunately he would find not a latter-day Sodom or Gomorrah just a delightful little village nestling at the southern edge of the moors.
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At the end of the food deprivation period, we removed all nestlings from their nests and put them in a cloth bag.
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Tormaukin is the epitome of the smart country hotel and restaurant, nestling in a valley with the sort of cold, clean, air that burns city-dwelling lungs, inducing an instant feeling of profound heartiness.
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She closed the album and set the book inside her trunk, nestling it among her clothing.
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There is a more or less serious argument about contemporary culture nestling within this gleeful demolition job, but it does not become apparent until about halfway through the narrative.
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Nestling in a wooded hollow at the edge of the Queen's Balmoral estate on Scotland's Royal Deeside, the whitewashed mansion was bequeathed to Charles by the Queen Mother.
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Nestling into exposed rock, the house appears deeply rooted in the ground itself, emerging as an extension of the geological strata beneath it.
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Nestling on the end of a silvery pendant lay a brilliant shifting and shimmering stone of the deepest blue imaginable, shining with scintillating azure starfire.
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However, brooding activity was likely finished when nestlings were 10 days old, as chicks are able to thermoregulate at this stage.
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Parent tree swallows deliver food to nestlings in a bolus, making it difficult to determine either the quantity or quality of food.
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Please don't start wittering on about how Princes Street is a World Heritage Site with 90 historic listed buildings nestling between two conservation areas.
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Nestling around the ruins of the abbey where Mary Queen of Scots spent her last night on Scottish soil, the village of Dundrennan is a picture postcard of tranquillity.
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Killick-Claw is ostensibly a gentle place nestling in the lee of the angry Newfoundland coast, but it quickly becomes apparent that there are darker forces at play under the surface.
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Five or six birds - doves, robins, bluebirds - had perched on the windowsill, and were affectionately nestling against her hands and arms.
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These figures consist of removable parts that can be "dissected" to demonstrate anatomy-- a breast plate is lifted to reveal the inner workings of the mysterious female body, often with a fetus to be found nestling in the womb see before and after above.
Florentine Anatomical Venus in Rare American Appearance!
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But, it is a long stretch to compare a half-starved bird that kills all her nestlings to a well-nourished woman who just delivered a baby and gets depressed two days later.
An Evolutionary Model of Depression, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Our largest native flying bird can deliver a nasty nip and the males know no fear when it comes to the defence of their mates and nestlings.
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From there, head for the maze of narrow streets with patisseries and charcuteries nestling alongside boutiques and perfumeries.
The Sun
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All nestlings were banded, which enabled a study of recruitment to the breeding population.
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It is quite possible, even likely, that some studies misclassify fates of nests that are depredated late in the nestling stage, leading to overestimates of nesting success.
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They are very aggressive and are able to take over nests and kill the eggs and nestlings of other birds.
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Males were sampled on average 4 days after they had fledged their nestlings.
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The single pair of golden strappy high-heels nestling amongst my numerous black shoes does not look incongruous.
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Nestling on the harbour wall, it has a good restaurant and serves decent bar meals, but it really comes into its own in the summer, when its beachside terrace is mobbed.
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Both of these nestlings were from the same nest, and the other two nestlings from this nest did match the female at all loci.
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Birds that bring up young cuckoos are unable to distinguish between parasitic nestlings and their own.
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The house occupies an elevated position with wide views of forests and farms nestling among the hills of the region.
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We also present data from several 1-year-old birds banded as nestlings and recaptured the following breeding season.
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Nestling pigeons and doves grow rapidly because of the crop-milk.
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For example, blue-footed booby and osprey nestlings fought more when hungry, but great egrets, blue herons and swallow-tailed kites did not.
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When 14 days old, nestlings were banded and weighed to the nearest 0.05 g.
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We wondered what would happen if a female lost her eggs or nestlings to predators and began the nesting cycle anew.
