Prior to laying, females embark on a pre-laying exodus to build up energy reserves in order to lay the comparatively large egg.

Prior to laying an egg, the nest is lined with green leaves.

Prior to laying there is a period known as the pre-laying exodus in which both the male and female are away from the colony, building up reserves in order to lay and undertake the first incubation stint respectively.

Prior to the invention of mechanized ice resurfacers, hand flooders such as this one were pulled around the rink laying an even layer of hot water.

Prior to his television career, Jones worked as a bank clerk, a telephone hotline officer, and a research assistant, and spent three months as a builder laying house foundations.

Florida shut the Cubs out in Game 5, but young pitcher Mark Prior led the Cubs in Game 6 as they took a 3 – 0 lead into the 8th inning and it was at this point when a now-infamous incident took place.

Prior to the late 18th century, diners who wished to " dine out " would visit their local guild member's kitchen and have their meal prepared for them.

Prior to the introduction of the Latin term, incest was known in Old English as sibbleger ( from sibb ' kinship ' + leger ' to lie ') or mǣġhǣmed ( from mǣġ ' kin, parent ' + hǣmed ' sexual intercourse ') but in time, both words fell out of use.

Prior to 2. 5, generators were lazy iterators ; information was passed unidirectionally out of the generator.

Prior to his death in 799, al-Kadhem was said to have prophesied that " A man will come out from Qom and he will summon people to the right path ".

Prior to the 2004 season, little hope was held out for the Rangers to improve on their losing ways.

Prior to the recording sessions, Rundgren listened through demos of the songs, chose 15 for the record and worked out a sequence for the album.

The Prior of Crato held out in the Azores until 1583, and continued to actively seek to recover the throne until his death in 1595.

Prior to 1975, and occasionally in more recent work, Post Keynesian could simply mean economics carried out after 1936, the date of Keynes's The General Theory.

Prior to discharge the coiled cnidae tubule exists inside the cell in an " inside out " condition.

Prior to the 1950s, the various stages of the recording and marketing process had been carried out by different professionals within the industry – A & R managers found potential new artists and signed them to their labels ; professional songwriters created new material ; publishing agents sold these songs to the A & R people ; staff engineers carried out the task of making the recordings in company-owned studios.

Whatever the case, in the words of Barker's character Billy Prior, Rivers's experience was traumatic enough to cause him to " put his mind's eye out ".

( Prior to this, the death penalty had already been abolished for murder, but it had remained in force for certain military offences and treason, although no executions had been carried out for several decades.

Prior to the beginning of training camps, however, the NBA owners, led by commissioner David Stern, locked out the players in order to force a new collective bargaining agreement with the National Basketball Players Association ( NBPA ).

Prior to its abolition, the Cup Winners ' Cup was regarded as the second most prestigious European club competition out of the three major tournaments, behind the UEFA Champions League and ahead of the UEFA Cup, although many commentators felt the Cup Winners ' Cup was the easiest of the three competitions to win.

Prior to the 15th century AD, Polynesian people fanned out to the east, to the Cook Islands, and from there to other groups such as Tahiti and the Marquesas.

Prior to being designated as a Special Area of Conservation ( SAC ), all sites are assessed under a process set out by the Joint Nature Conservation Committee as follows:

Prior to the arrival of European settlers in North America, Native American settlements appear to have been limited to the area north of the Indian River, north of what is now Bethany Beach ; even after Europeans pushed the Native Americans — mostly Nanticokes -- out of their coastal settlements in the mid-17th century, the Native Americans moved west to settle around Oak Orchard, Delaware, and in the Millsboro, Delaware, area rather than south toward what would become Bethany Beach.

Prior to 1839, George Roy and his son, Desire, laid out the area and named the community " Royville.

Spring Lake, with 290 acres, but being a few minutes further out from the metro area offers similar recreational opportunities as Upper Prior Lake with a more rural character and less traffic.

Prior to the first game of the 1990 Major League Baseball season, played at Fenway Park, Toni Giamatti threw out the ceremonial first pitch.

Prior to the exercises at the school there was a grand parade, in which many secret societies from in and out of town took part, together with bands of music ...

Prior to the start of the Revolutionary War, the early Quaker settlers became dissatisfied with the quality of the farmland within Newberry Township and began moving out of it.

" Prior to shows scheduled at Madison Square Garden in New York City, Chamberlin and touring keyboardist Jonathan Melvoin overdosed on heroin ; Melvoin subsequently died, and Chamberlin was kicked out of the band, ostensibly to protect his health.

The remains of some of his soldiers were found in the nearby village of Cleeve Prior after fleeing from the battle of Evesham.

Prior to the 19th century the area now forming the Borough was practically unoccupied: very few of the present settlements were mentioned in the Domesday Book, although the village of Bexley has a charter dated 814CE.

Prior to its settlement by European and / or African people, on the site of this town was the Creek Indian village called " Tumkeehatchee ".

Prior to 1821, the village was known as Willimantic Falls, home to about twenty families and a single school district.

Prior to the plat of the village, there was an inn three-quarters of a mile east of the present site, called " Tantivy " or " TAN-TI-VY ".

Prior to its building, New Salem, which has always been the southeast corner of Franklin County, did not extend much further south than the village of Cooleyville, now along U. S. Route 202.

Horses baling straw circa 1900. The Dakota nation ceded land in 1851 and many relocated to Chief Shakopee's village — the current Shakopee-Mdewakanton Indian Reservation in nearby Prior Lake.

Prior to being an Ojibwe village, it was also a Mdewakanton Dakota village.

Seen as the sister city of Shakopee, Prior Lake was incorporated as a village in 1891, Prior Lake is one of the oldest southern metro cities to have been absorbed by suburban growth.

Prior to that time, the county business had been conducted from " Old Chariton ," a small village near the confluence of the Chariton and Missouri Rivers.

Prior to that, the area was known as Bloomingdale throughout the 19th century and was initially settled as a farming village starting about 1712 with the " Bloomingdale Forge " built shortly thereafter to take advantage of the iron in the hills.

Prior to European-American settlement, a major Cayuga Indian village, Chonodote, stood near the present-day site of Aurora village.

Prior to becoming a village, the area that constitutes modern day Brockport was primarily occupied by the Muoio Indian tribe ( A branch of the Seneca ).

Prior to the French and Indian War, a French trading post and block house was located on the site of the future village.

Prior to 1970, Indian Hill was incorporated as a village, but under Ohio law became designated as a city once its population was verified as exceeding 5, 000.

Prior to the industrial revolution, a " village smithy " was a staple of every town.

Prior to incorporation as a city, the village encompassed the entire area of two small townships.

Prior to the establishment of the village of Harrisburg a post office named Big Darby Post Office had been established on March 13, 1834, and the name was changed to Harrisburgh Post Office on February 18, 1835.

Prior to being incorporated as the Village of Howard, the Town of Howard was commonly referred to as " Duck Creek " because of the Duck Creek waterway winding its way through the village.

Prior to 1974, it was a village in the Derwent Rural District, which was part of the East Riding of Yorkshire.

Prior to the seventh century, the site was mainly occupied by small houses, formulating the occasional village.