At the time Alex arrived he was engaged in some sort of intimate communication with the hen, who had settled herself on the nest most peacefully after the occurrences of the morning.

At the old nest, the queen will in the early fall cease to lay the fertilized eggs that will produce females.

At the end of the night, group members use a special rallying call and gather to sleep in a nest made of leaves, a group of branches, or a hole in a tree.

At the end of the night, group members use a special rallying call and gather to sleep in a nest made of leaves, in a group of branches, or in a hole in a tree.

At the right time of year many puffins can be seen and these are very popular with visitors ; on the Inner Farne, the arctic terns nest close to the path and will attack visitors who come too close ( visitors are strongly advised to wear hats ).

At nest ( Orchha, India )

At the finished nest, a pair gives displays similar to those of the group ceremonies and mates, often on top of the nest.

At the appropriate moment, the hen cuckoo flies down to the host's nest, pushes one egg out, lays an egg and flies off.

At least some trees in the local environment seem to be necessary for its successful breeding although they occasionally nest on telephone towers.

At dusk, Leadbeater's possums emerge from the nest and spread out to forage in the canopy, often making spectacular leaps from tree to tree ( they require continuous understory to travel ).

At night, the numbat retreats to a nest, which can be in a hollow log or tree, or in a burrow, typically a narrow shaft 1-2 metres long which terminates in a spherical chamber lined with soft plant material: grass, leaves, flowers and shredded bark.

At one extreme the Greater Shearwater nests in concentrations of 1 pair per square metre in three colonies of more than 1 million pairs, whereas the giant petrels nest in clumped but widely spaced territories that barely qualify as colonial.

At the Orne River bridge, a machine-gun nest was suppressed with mortar fire but no other defenders were found, and the two platoons captured the bridge before radioing Major Howard and informing him of their success.

At early stages of incubation the adults are easily flushed from the nest by the presence of humans near the nest, and may not return for several hours after being flushed.

At the beginning of the breeding season the hens are very sensitive towards disturbances and leave the nest quickly.

At about two weeks into the chicks lives the female starts to leave the nest for long spans of time ( 5 hours or more ).

It has been shown that failed pairs split and help at the nests of male relatives, recognition being established vocally The helped nests have greater success due to higher provisioning rates and better nest defence At the end of the breeding season, in June – July, the birds reform the winter flocks in their winter territory.

At one Venezuelan nest, all remains found around the nest site were comprised by sloths.

At several nest in Guyana, monkeys made up approximately 37 % of the prey remains found at the nests.

At nest in Hyderabad, India.

At Paris amongst the Royalists he found himself in a nest of enemies eager to pay off old scores.