Both parents will lead the young birds to food and care for them for 14 – 16 days until their first flight.

These birds need about per pair so they can find enough food to feed their young and themselves.

The adult birds that survived the slaughter attempted second nestings at new sites, but were killed by professional hunters before they had a chance to raise any young.

Co-operative breeding, where younger birds help their parents raise the next generation of young, has been recorded in both species in the genera Eurocephalus and Corvinella as well as one species of Lanius.

As a young man, Fort was a budding naturalist, collecting sea shells, minerals, and birds.

It takes young birds about a year to perfect their mimicked repertoire.

* 1935 — Konrad Lorenz described the imprinting behavior of young birds.

It is unclear if some islands ' populations are natural or the result of trade in young birds by natives.

However, should dry conditions return before the young have been raised, the adult birds will abandon the nests and their eggs or cygnets and return to wetter areas.

Most of the species in the family are monogamous, and both parents care for the young, sometimes with the assistance of other birds in the colony, a behavior considered unusual for birds.

Unlike most birds, both sexes of doves and pigeons produce " crop milk " to feed to their young, secreted by a sloughing of fluid-filled cells from the lining of the crop.

The eggs are incubated for 13 – 14 days and the young birds leave the nest

Both birds incubate and guard the young.

He can be your friend but is known for abducting young boys who are alone and trying to catch birds.

There is no sexual dimorphism in the plumage of wrens, and little difference between young birds and adults.

Between 1803 and 1806 Mill Grove and its surrounding fields and woodlands first inspired young Audubon's passion for painting and drawing birds.

The young birds will also take insects.

In general, seabirds live longer, breed later and have fewer young than other birds do, but they invest a great deal of time in their young.

Care of young is protracted, extending for as long as six months, among the longest for birds.

This most commonly happens to young inexperienced birds, but can happen in great numbers to exhausted adults after large storms, an event known as a wreck, where they provide prized sightings for birders.

On the island, the various birds speak bird-language, described as being related to fairy language which can be understood by young humans, who used to be birds.

Females and young birds have shorter crests, and have less strongly marked heads, but plumages are otherwise quite similar.

I think that we are here also talking of the kind of fear that a young boy has for a group of boys who are approaching at night along the streets of a large city.

Then, with staring eyes and lips drawn thin, Miriam said to the young woman, `` You are ugly -- uglier than you used to be, and you were always very ugly.

Defoe then commented, `` If they Could Draw that young Gentleman into Their Measures They would show themselves quickly, for they are not asham'd to Say They want only a head to Make a beginning ''.

and the young people should not even be permitted to see comedies till they are old enough to drink strong wine and sit at the public tables.

As they move through the college years our young men and women are `` socialized '' into a broadly similar culture, at the level of personal behavior.

But, here again, comparative benchmarks are lacking, and we do not know, in any case, what measure of profoundity and intensity to expect from healthy, young, secure and relatively inexperienced persons ; ;

Affirmatively Baker worked on the premise that `` young men spontaneously prefer to be decent, and that opportunities for wholesome recreation are the best possible cure for irregularities in conduct which arise from idleness and the baser temptations ''.

To those of my readers who find many of my opinions morally, or politically, or sociologically antiquated ( and I have reason to know that there are some such ), I would like to say what I have already hinted, namely, that some of my opinions may indeed be subject to some discount on the simple ground that I am no longer young and therefore incapable of being youthful of mind.

Some of the marble busts in the park are of young Englishmen who fought and died for Garibaldi.

The probable answer is that it will do so just as long as Russia can exercise a veto in favor of chaos and until young African nations wake up to the truth that out of false pride they are visiting ruin on Central Africa.

But when some of the squeals had subsided and she had been through one of those sessions that are so indispensable to the young female -- six girls sprawled on one bed, drinking Cokes and giggling -- she came back to the kitchen to talk with me a minute.

In addition, would not the young female public of Washington be afforded a greater degree of protection at night when they are on the streets if they were accompanied by a dog on a leash??

I have been absolutely shocked at the ineptness of the young ladies who are servicing person-to-person calls, special long-distance calls, etc..

Clearly the most provocative plays are all imported originals -- A Taste Of Honey, by Britain's young ( 19 when she wrote it ) Shelagh Delaney ; ;

You have heard him tell these young people that during his almost 50 years of service in the Congress he has seen the Kaisers and the Hitlers and the Mussolinis, the Tojos and Stalins and Khrushchevs, come and go and that we are passing on to them the freest Nation that mankind has ever known.

Life-preservers, the buckle-on kapok-filled kind, are held in readiness, too, for the very young.

) In most sports, as in most walks of life, the angels are on the side of those who begin young, and the Russian competitor of 16 has at least thirteen years of training behind him.

If the dance teachers of America make it their business to prepare their young charges for the gymnastics that must come some day if our schools are really responsible, we will be that much ahead.

Having ( through my unflagging effort and devotion ) achieved stardom, a fortune and a world-renowned wife at an age when most young men are casting their first vote, Letch proceeded to neglect them all.

I must add at once that these animals are what we call `` queens '', young females that have mated in the previous summer or autumn.

a marvelous arrangement, for it provides exactly what the bee queens need to make their beebread, a combination of honey and pollen with which the young of all species are fed.

He concluded that in the southern species, which are rapidly growing types, females mate at the age of two and a half and bear the first young when they are three.

In there aren't many young people in the neighborhood the modifier young takes dominant stress away from its head people: the fact that the young creatures of interest are people seems rather obvious.