How to Use nestling in a Sentence

nestling

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  • Among birds, whip-poor-will nestlings hatch from their eggs during the new moon.
    — National Geographic, 6 July 2017
  • Among birds, whip-poor-will nestlings hatch from their eggs during the new moon.
    — National Geographic, 6 July 2017
  • If a baby bird is a nestling (three to 10 days old) on the ground, it should be put back into its nest.
    — Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 17 June 2018
  • Already larger than the host chicks, the cowbird then out-competes them for food the host adults bring to the nestlings.
    — Taylor Piephoff, charlotteobserver, 30 June 2017
  • Bags also pack a clear vitrine, nestling one of the many ear sculptures.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Would all of the activity cause the parent birds to abandon the nestlings?
    — Ernie Cowan, sandiegouniontribune.com, 18 May 2017
  • Toone will be responsible for the care of the nestling at the park after it is hatched at the San Diego zoo in about 35 days.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Feb. 2023
  • The first of the eggs hatched on Tuesday, and as of this morning, all four nestlings could be seen with their mouths agape, looking to be fed.
    — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 21 May 2020
  • This creates an elastic cup that expands as the tiny nestlings grow.
    — Ernie Cowan, sandiegouniontribune.com, 14 Sep. 2017
  • The number of bald eagle nests being used for eggs and nestlings fell to at most seven in the early 1970s.
    — USA TODAY, 24 Dec. 2019
  • Biologists used rock climbing gear to ascend the cliffs and reach the two nestlings.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The nestling wasn't the first hawk brought this month to Willowbrook by Naperville Animal Control.
    — Suzanne Baker, Naperville Sun, 27 June 2017
  • If the drones scare the eagles off the nest, the nestlings are exposed to temperatures and ravens waiting to whisk the eggs or eaglets away for a quick snack.
    — Debra Utacia Krol, azcentral, 27 Feb. 2020
  • The entire operation is brief and the nestling is returned home.
    — Amy Joi O'Donoghue, USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2021
  • Songbirds also get rid of uneaten food, dead nestlings, and eggshells in their nests, Guigueno says.
    — Barry Mansell, National Geographic, 8 Apr. 2016
  • Phoenix: An increase of bald eagle breeding areas this year didn’t result in more nestlings in the state.
    — USA TODAY, 15 Nov. 2019
  • But a few days later, a biologist was able to confirm that the nestling was healthy and active.
    — Jesse Klein, Wired, 11 Dec. 2020
  • In the past, a few eagle nests have been raided by black bears with predictably bad results for the nesting eagles (i.e., loss of that year’s nestlings).
    — Helena Wegner, Anchorage Daily News, 28 July 2023
  • Furthermore, the birds have been recorded preying on earthworms, small lizards, nestlings and eggs.
    — Jason Bittel, Smithsonian, 4 Jan. 2017
  • Furthermore, the birds have been recorded preying on earthworms, small lizards, nestlings and eggs.
    — Jason Bittel, Smithsonian, 4 Jan. 2017
  • That gave the bird an extra week to fledge; a wildlife biologist estimated the nestling would need two to three weeks to fledge.
    — Erin Stone, azcentral, 3 Apr. 2020
  • This Ski Lodge Candle Bring the feeling of nestling by an alpine chalet fire into your living room with this on-sale candle.
    — Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR, 18 Jan. 2023
  • But this occurs only when birds are nestlings and still maturing.
    — Marlene Cimons, Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2018
  • Shattuck discovered fishing line tangled around one nestling’s leg and freed the bird.
    — Washington Post, 29 July 2019
  • But when their parents are away, the nestlings take turns napping, preening each other and talking to themselves.
    — Karen Hopkin, Scientific American, 12 May 2023
  • Researchers in Berkeley first met Grinnell in 2013 as a nestling, and Annie appeared a few years later.
    — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2021
  • The researchers measured levels of the stress hormone corticosterone in adult females and nestlings of the three species at all the nest boxes over three years.
    — Amy Mathews Amos, Scientific American, 1 Apr. 2018
  • The 8-inch-long squirrels rely on conifer seeds for the bulk of their diet; insects, mushrooms, bird eggs, nestlings and other foods supplement the seeds.
    — Debra Utacia Krol, azcentral, 4 Dec. 2019
  • The bird brought in as a nestling apparently had fallen from its nest in July 2020, Mitchell said in an interview.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Arrange the cloches around the garland, filling their base with moss and nestling a couple of mushroom or animal decorations in the moss.
    — Maria Sabella, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Nov. 2023

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