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The early days for fledged juveniles are more hazardous ; during its first dives into water, about four days after leaving the nest, a fledgling may become waterlogged and drown.
After the juveniles fledge, the family travels and forages together until early fall, when the young birds disperse to avoid competition for food during the winter.
Aboveground activity is greatest during late summer and early autumn when juveniles become independent.
The male, which plays no part in nesting or chick care, leaves the breeding grounds in late June or early July, followed later in July by the female and juveniles.
In early June, when broods were 55 to 65 days old, the young fought amongst themselves until dominant juveniles forced their siblings to leave the natal area.
Two freshly fledged juveniles were found within the walls of the governor's palace in Funchal in the early 1940s, presumably attracted there by lights, but the species was not seen again until 1969.
By the early spring, pairs begin to spend more time together, with non-breeding birds and juveniles dispersing separately.
Non-breeding males, females and juveniles are predominantly grey-brown in colour ; this gave the early impression that males were polygamous, as all dull-coloured birds were taken for females.
Adult skinks usually become inactive by early fall but juveniles extend their period of activity several weeks.
The living tissue of the encrusting algae is approximately pink to dark red and feeding by these early juveniles results in white scars on the surface of the algae ( photograph ).
Juvenile A. planci that had reached the stage of feeding on coral were then reared for some years in the same large closed-circuit seawater system that was used for the early juveniles.
As in laboratory studies where A. planci larvae were found to select coralline algae for settlement, early juveniles (< 20 mm diameter ) were found on subtidal coralline algae ( Porolithon onkodes ) on the windward reef front of Suva Reef ( Fiji ).
Harrie Irving Hancock ( 1866 ?- 1922 ) was an American chemist and writer, mainly remembered as an author of children's literature and juveniles in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and as having written a fictional depiction of a German invasion of the USA.
Fall migration occurs in approximately the same order as spring emergence, with females departing first ( early September for fall migration ) and juveniles leaving last ( mid-October ).
Since the Ghost Ranch specimens were discovered, more skeletons have been found in Arizona, New Mexico and an as-yet unconfirmed specimen from Utah, including both adults and juveniles, the deposits where Coelophysis has been discovered date from the late Carnian to the early Norian faunal stages of the Triassic Period.
Physiological factors that aid differentiation of zygotes and early juveniles of Acetabularia acetabulum ( Chlorophyta ).
Observations from Oregon and Yukon suggest that juveniles may disperse in early spring.
Only the economically important species have had their reproduction studied in any detail: the larvae and juveniles of Darwin's slimehead are pelagic and frequent rather shallow waters near the coast, whereas in orange roughy the early life stages are apparently confined to deeper water ( ca.
As oviparous pelagic spawners, ridgeheads produce many tiny eggs which are fertilized externally ; the eggs and larvae ( and early juveniles ) are buoyant and planktonic, drifting with the currents near the surface until the juveniles have reached the point where they are strong enough to determine their own direction.
First juveniles can be found flying as early as 3-4 weeks later.
Since chinook salmon spawn in early winter and juveniles migrate to the ocean in their first spring, they are able to use habitats that turn very warm or have low water quality in summer.

early and were
Steinberg claims that these early years of orchestra participation were of invaluable help to his career.
Cried Wright, showing that automobiles were considered to be a danger as early as the 1920's.
By early June they were a hundred miles off the coast of Ceylon, by which time all four missionaries were hardened seafarers.
If his scholarship and formal musicianship were not all they might have been, Mercer demonstrated at an early age that he was gifted with a remarkable ear for rhythm and dialect.
These early experiments were evidently not altogether satisfying to Patchen.
Over 4 million shares were sold, the highest figures since early June.
Mongi Slim of Tunisia and Frederick Boland of Ireland were early favorites in the running, but France didn't like the former and the Soviet Union would have none of the latter.
He and other Soviet leaders responsible for the document were proud of having brought forward some new formulas, such as the early replacement of the dictatorship of the proletariat by an `` All People's State '', and also of having laid down the lines for a much greater `` democratization '' of the whole hierarchy of Soviets, starting with the Supreme Soviet itself.
And if the foreigners fighting in the Katanga Army are mercenaries then Lafayette and Von Steuben were mercenaries too, as were also the members of the Lafayette Escadrille in the early part of World War 1, and of Chennault's Flying Tigers in the early days of World War 2.
Again among those jubilantly reunited bunkmates, I was shy with Jessie and acted as I had during those early Saturday mornings when we all seemed to be playing for effect, to be detached and unconcerned with the girls who were properly our dates but about whom, later, in the privacy of our bunks, we would think in terms of the most elaborate romance.
During the early part of this century, the Brown & Sharpe works in Providence were unchallenged as the largest single manufacturing facility devoted exclusively to precision machinery and tool manufacture anywhere in the world.
Its early morning patrons were coachmen, who fortified themselves for the day with that delicacy.
Eight years ago while we were going through the mud-sweat-and-tears construction period, we were each solaced by the vision of early morning dips and evening home-comings to a cool family collected around the pool with a buffet table laid out nearby for the lord and master's delectation.
The early works were conceived for a sophisticated, international audience ; ;
Because of the authentic homogeneity of his early Nationalistic materials, and his flair for orchestrations -- his brilliant Petruchka, his savage Sacre Du Printemps, his incisive Les Noces -- the world kept hoping that he could recapture the historical direction for which his native talents were predisposed.
He worked in oil for years before beginning his work in watercolor, and his first public recognition and early honors, including his election to the Academy, were for his essays in the heavier medium.
Here again it seems that useful approximations of the size and geographical distribution of the population were obtained in this way in the late pre-war and early post-war periods.
Indeed, in some periods of our history and in some neighborhoods the job opportunities have been so good that undoubtedly a great many boys who were potential members of the professions quit school at an early age and went to work.
The first cattle the Injuns saw under the white man's control were the ox teams of the early freighters.
Near the southern border, cattle of the early longhorn breed whose coloration was black with a lineback, with white speckles frequently appearin' on the sides and belly, were called `` zorrillas ''.

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