The young bird took only two or three weeks to mature enough to abandon the nest and land for the water, typically around the middle of July.

It has a 500 to 1000 year life-cycle, near the end of which it builds itself a nest of twigs that then ignites ; both nest and bird burn fiercely and are reduced to ashes, from which a new, young phoenix or phoenix egg arises, reborn anew to live again.

We know that they adore a large bird similar to a kite, which they raise with the greatest of care from the time it is young, and they hold to many errors regarding it.

After sightings of the bird at sea, a young Bermudian, David B. Wingate, theorised Cahows might still be nesting on rocky islets of Castle Harbour.

Also, his species is ambiguous ; although originally and often portrayed as a young canary, he is also frequently called a rare and valuable " tweety bird " as a plot device, and once called " the only living specimen ".

The Sun God is associated with an aquatic eastern paradise, where he can assume the shape of a chimerical water bird, or be shown as a young man, paddling a canoe.

During spring, barring on the underwings and flight feathers is a better indicator of a young bird, due to wear on the upperparts.

If oceanic conditions are unsuitable, seabirds will emigrate to more productive areas, sometimes permanently if the bird is young.

An incident occurs in which Master Blifil lets go the small bird of Sophia's, given to her by Tom as a young boy.

However, in Old English, and in modern English up to about the 18th century, " bird " was used only for smaller or young birds, and larger ones such as crows were called " fowl ".

Angry, Napoleon goes to visit the attic quarters of his friend Fleuri, a place of refuge where Napoleon keeps his captive bird, a young eagle that was sent to him from Corsica by an uncle.

The slang word flapper, describing a young woman, is sometimes supposed to refer to a young bird flapping its wings while learning to fly.

Prey may consist of insects, mammals ranging in size from mice to hares and mongoose, crabs, lizards, snakes, tortoises, young birds, bird eggs, and sometimes dead animals killed in grass or bush fires.

In this movie, Panja and his mate, Eliza, are still alive, Coco is an unspecified female bird, and Sylvester, the black panther, serves as a secondary antagonist until he changes his ways when a young boy mends his leg.

One bird in England bred with a Little Grebe, producing hybrid young.

A young bird that has recently fledged but is still dependent upon parental care and feeding is called a fledgling.

It does not normally interbreed with the larger grebes in the Old World, but a bird in Cornwall mated with a vagrant North American Pied-billed Grebe, producing hybrid young

This bird seeks food both on the ground and in trees, and takes a very high percentage of animal prey from countless invertebrates, small reptiles, mammals and young birds and eggs.

Drake in eclipse plumage ( rightmost bird ), hen and young

The Scarlet Ibis is a sociable and gregarious bird, and very communally-minded regarding the search for food and the protection of the young.

Non-native and native bird species competing with bluebirds for nesting locations include the Common Starling, American Crow, and House Sparrow, which take over the nesting sites of bluebirds, killing young and smashing eggs and probably killing adult bluebirds.

The female adopts a begging posture and vocalises like a young bird.

As lava fields contain no soil of the typical kind, windblown matter and slow breaking-down processes of the native flora are still in the process of transforming the island into a more habitable area for most plants, which is one of the reasons why the local forests are relatively young and do not yet support a large bird population.

Next to him was a young boy I was sure had sat near me at one of the trading sessions.

It was pitiful to see the thin ranks of warriors, old and young, wheeling and twisting their ponies frantically from side to side only to be tumbled bleeding from their saddles by the relentless slam, slam of the cruelly efficient Hawkinses.

Donna, his young wife, the girl who was both daughter and wife to him.

I myself was fond of him but what a young woman half his age saw in him was a mystery to me.

He was a huge young man of twenty-four, clothed in muscle, immensely strong, with a habitual gentleness and diffidence of manner that was submerged under his present agitation.

The story was shaping up nicely in his mind: the young pioneer, as of old, altruistically braving the unknown ; ;

Then when Miss Langford was on the end of the line of girls, Jack, in the middle of the line, gave an extra hard pull and the young teacher sprawled backwards, sitting down hard, her dress flying over her head.

This young slave was therefore quite unprepared when Delphine Lalaurie signaled that she wanted him to draw near.

A smart, shrewd and ambitious young man, well connected, and with a knack for getting in the good graces of important people, he was bound to go far.

One thing Papa had not taught Henrietta was how to handle a young man as high-spirited and opinionated as herself.

and when a young man like Morris Jastrow had enjoyed the Szold hospitality, he felt obliged to send his respects and his gifts not merely to Henrietta, in whom he was really interested, but to all the Szold girls and Mamma.

Only what else was she singing but the old Song of Songs, that most ancient of tunes that nature plays with such unfailing response upon young nerves??

But her father was not enthusiastic about sending young Paula to high school.

She was pious, too, once kneeling through the night from Holy Thursday to Good Friday, despite the protest of the nuns that this was too much for a young girl.

`` Yes '', Gross went on, `` Bang-Jensen was an up-and-coming young man.

The sickness was gone and, after all, the two young couples were on their honeymoon.

By this time she had learned that it was futile to argue with her young husband, yet the uncomfortable fact remained: the American Congregationalists were sending them as missionaries to the Far East and paying their salaries.

That she was affected by his protestations seems obvious, but since she was evidently a sensible young woman -- as well as an outgoing and sympathetic type -- it would seem that for her the word friendship had a far less intense emotional significance than that which Thompson gave it.

England contributed a young subaltern named Newton and the naval architect Samuel Bentham, brother to the economist, who for his colonel's commission was proving a godsend to the Russian fleet.

They would be lolling under a tree sipping Ouzo, relishing the leisurely life, assuring him that the day was yet young.