Sentences with phrase «feed chicks»

You might be pressing buttons or sliding levers to help an astronaut repair his spaceship, or even catching worms to help a mama bird feed her chicks.

Along with fish, the parent bald eagles have brought scavenged seal placenta back to the nest to feed their chicks.

And the pairs were far less synchronized when they did feed chicks, compared to a control group.

It seems that male birds help females to feed chicks only when food is short.

Data - loggers installed along a narrow travel pathway from the sea were used to gather accurate data on how much time tagged adult birds spent away from the island and how frequently they returned to feed their chicks.

Some birds, for example, always feed the largest chick in the nest, while others chose the hungriest or feed chicks at random.

But, above all, they need an abundant and reliable source of food close by to feed their chicks.

One pair consistently fed its chicks half - eaten fish.

They found that lowering prolactin either eliminated or drastically reduced both brooding and feeding the chicks for both male and female zebra finches.

No matter how small the job, a builder's career can be on the hook if he / she slops the hogs instead of feeding the chicks.

Corroborated by parrot behaviorists» hand - fed chicks seem to miss major developmental milestones that are necessary for mood stabilization.

Emanating from the colony, which also has nesting Magnificent Frigate Birds, is a rather fishy smell, and a cacophony of screeches and squawks as the birds come and go, feeding chicks and shading them from the intense midday sun.

You will never forget your first experience of a noisy «penguin city», where the dapper inhabitants show no fear of their strange visitors and where you will be immersed in a tumult of chattering, feeding chicks; territorial disputes; petty pilfering and courtship displays.

However, the Paratroopa's intention was to feed the chick instead of being an enemy to the hostages.

The model integrates previous work by the group, which found that plover mortality rises in cold winters, with new data showing that high August temperatures kill off cranefly larvae leading to fewer adults emerging the following spring when the birds are feeding their chicks.

Not exact matches

Chick - fil - A, which is usually closed on Sundays, opened to provide meals for travelers, according to the airport's Twitter feed.

With their heads back, mouths open like baby chicks ready to be fed, they beg, «Give us this bread always.»

Yup, chicks feed the babies, and civilization is lost.

Shame on the Gay community for not offering charity to those in need and bravo for Chick - fil - A for not letting that food go to waste and feeding those in the community regardless of what their beliefs are.

The avian symbol stems from a variation of a legend that circulated during medieval times that said if her chicks were starving, the mother pelican would pierce her own chest and feed the young her blood.

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So naturally the first thing I did when it was light enough this morning was to head out to the chicks with feed and water and do a head count.

Super foods that could restore your metabolism and could feed your fat - burning hormones Legumes (such as lentils, chick peas, beans, especially red), Allium vegetables (such as garlic, leeks, chives, scallions and shallots), berries, colorful foods and vegetables such as dark green leafy vegetables (such as spinach), nuts and seeds (such as almonds and walnuts), cruciferous vegetables (such as broccoli, cauliflower, and cabbage), whole grains, organic dairy, organic meats and organic vegetables.

In the case of the birds that unwittingly become foster parents, the calls and the gaping mouth of the chick automatically trigger the feeding instinct.

The young cuckoo typically hatches before its host's chicks do and will quickly shove their eggs over the side of the nest, thus ensuring that its hosts feed it and only it.

Even cooler is a «feed store» or hay store that often has baby chicks and other farm animals!

The best thing to do is to buy day old chicks from your local feed store, a local farm or an online hatchery or breeder.

«We know from detailed research on chicks, amphibians and fish that the right eye and left hemisphere control feeding responses,» she says.

A blackcap was even seen incubating a slug feeding on dead chicks.

I was intrigued to learn that the body temperature of king penguin chicks falls when they are fed cold meals...

Some species even use nannies to feed and care for chicks.

In a study population made up of 68 bird nests, the researchers found that chicks that were raised in groups received 19 % more food than those fed by their parents alone.

Male nightingales feed the female during incubation, provide food to chicks and defend the nest against predators.

Males that sang more complex song repertoires, indicated by many different «buzz», «whistle» and «trill» song types, also contributed more to chick feeding.

Chick behaviour was analysed using acoustic recordings, that of the parents by looking at feeding intervals and time spent away from the nest or colony.

Sensing they could no longer continue to feed full - grown chicks and keep themselves alive, the adult Adélies simply took off.

After migrating hundreds of miles from their winter feeding grounds, they marched off the ice in the austral spring and — even though their nesting territories were concealed under snow — headed to the very colonies where many were hatched or had raised chicks before.

«We see that the nests with chicks only from the male that feeds them are more often attacked by predators.

For the sake of simplicity, let's call these chicks that are not the offspring of the male feeding them, «extra-pair chicks.»

«The nests with chicks only from the male that feeds them are more often attacked by predators.

The researchers estimate that if Eudyptes penguins were to share guarding and foraging duties equally, up to 34.5 percent more feeds could be provided to their chicks.

During the next six weeks, chicks gather together in crèches and can be fed by both parents.

The birds were fed the drug for several days just before and just after their chicks hatched.

The wind can also affect the marine environment, she continued, mixing up the water column and dispersing the krill, a penguin's main source of food, which may cause parent penguins to remain at sea for longer periods of time and cause chicks to be fed less frequently.

A study7 in which one - week - old chicks were fed various combinations of essential and non-essential amino acids showed that the lowest cholesterol level was always in the chicks fed the required essential amino acids in the correct amount.

(Those nutrients are enough to feed a growing chick so that it hatches healthy, but one egg is not enough for you to meet your daily requirement!)

Sure, check your Instagram feed, see if that chick from high school messaged you back on Facebook (I bet she didn't), or ask your buddy who you should start on your fantasy football team.

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