The females and their broods can all associate with each other, so there may be multiple hens with poults in a group.
One solution is to examine larval shells directly from fossilized larval broods.
In control broods the fry were sucked into the tubing and then released straight back into the pit.
Both parents remain with broods for several weeks following hatching of the precocial young.
The predaceous invaders consume the fungus and, researchers suspect, feed the stolen larvae to their own broods.
To save their broods, they dig canals between dwindling puddles and deeper pools.
They nest in shallow depressions in the tundra, and broods of two to eight leverets are born in late June and are fully grown by early September.
Males will defend territories, and females will defend areas around their broods excluding their own and other species.
In 1983 and 1984, the ability of whole broods to thermoregulate was tested as a function of brood size, nest environment, and brood age.
A total of seven males stayed that long and would have successfully hatched their broods.
Competition between siblings for resources is widespread in the broods of altricial birds.
Increased predation affects the survival of nests and broods immediately after hatching, when the chance of total loss is highest.
Helpers are generally young from previous broods that provide care for their parents' offspring.
Limited observational and experimental studies of birds indicate that smaller broods are more often deserted.
His five sisters and their broods descend each summer creating an instant barrage of family noise.
When voles are abundant, they become a major source of food, and in these years, some Barn Owls may be able to raise additional broods.
The female broods the young for 2-3 weeks after they hatch, while the male brings food to the female and the owlets.
After several bouts of egg laying and fertilization, the female departs with fertilized eggs which she broods in her mouth.
There were no cases of extrapair paternity among 122 offspring from 53 broods detectable by minisatellite or microsatellite DNA fingerprinting.
The species has been shown to display nepotism as the worker ants favor the broods of the queen to whom they are most closely related.
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In a broader survey of this population of kookaburras, the youngest nestling in broods of three was killed in one third of nests.
The female stays on the nest and broods the young for the first week or so after they hatch.
The birds prospecting for nesting sites were most attracted to areas where other birds had large broods of robust infants.
Unlike in unmanipulated broods, hatch date did not affect the survival of experimental chicks.
Once the young hatch, the female broods while the male continues to bring food.
Once the young hatch, the female broods for about two weeks, and the male brings food to both the female and the young.
In the first few days after the young hatch, the female broods the young almost continuously.
Once the young hatch, the female broods for 8-10 days and the male bring food to both the female and the young.
Once the young hatch, the female broods them for about a week, and then joins the male in providing food for them.
The female builds the nest and incubates and broods alone, but both parents feed the chicks, which fledge within 14-16 days of hatching.
Once the young hatch, the female broods for about three weeks while the male brings food to her and the owlets.
After the young hatch, the female broods for 1-2 weeks, and the male continues to provide all food.
This sponge broods embryos and larvae at all times, allowing year-round access to biological material.
It's the Nursery Fish and like the Seahorse, the male broods the young, but not in a pouch.
Once the 3 to 5 eggs hatch, the female broods for about two weeks.
Patty Hearst's parents are separated, and he broods about which parent the girl will go to before her marriage.
Most of the broods observed consisted of American black duck, Canada goose and common merganser.
After the young hatch, she broods the owlets for about three weeks.
Levine broods in the meat locker, mad with desire for Prinsloo, whose appetite for him is equally primal.
There is no attempt to differentiate broods to species although the number of duckling in the broods and their stage of development are recorded.
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The use of combs, which contain broods, is prohibited for honey extraction.
Like other catfishes, the male probably broods the young, after which time they disperse.
It may raise smaller broods, provide less food for its chicks, or exhibit abnormal behaviour towards its mate.
Losses may be severe if cold, wet weather occurs when broods are less than two weeks old.
A label statement is therefore included on the label to identify and mitigate the potential risk to honey bee broods.
The hatchlings have no feathers and so the female broods, or warms, them until they are seven or eight days old.
When the females have left their broods, they too gather in the reeds to moult.
In those broods that were not depredated, nestling survival was high.
The first of those two indices was obtained by counting, once per day, the number of Emperor Goose broods in which all goslings could be observed.
Ms. Lileas broods and mopes as the more grounded Tessa, although the Southern drawl feels studied.
The trees are killed mostly by girdling, when several broods develop in the same tree.
On those islands used for pasture, livestock trample shoreline vegetation, prevent ducks from nesting and disturb their broods.
The female broods, or keeps them warm, feeding them from her bill with food regurgitated, or brought up, from her throat.
In the summer of 1992, and apparently for the first time, two pairs of splendid great crested grebes successfully bred on the river in the city centre rearing broods of young.
Their short breeding cycle allows pigeons and doves to have more broods to compensate for their small brood sizes and relatively high rates of predation.
When the young hatch, the female broods them and the male brings food.
They are prolific breeders. They have two and three broods a year.
The female Bald Eagle, and to a lesser degree the male, broods the young, shielding them from rain, wind, and sun, continuously at first and sporadically after the first month.
In a previous study we showed that broods from the viviparous eelpout Zoarces viviparus were significantly male biased in 1998 in the vicinity of a large kraft pulp mill on the Swedish Baltic coast.
Volunteer guardians and conservation staff work to discourage nearby recreational traffic, and monitor the broods regularly to ensure fledgling success.
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At Hag's, herds of stags bump sexlessly into screeching broods of hens.
Two or three generations, or broods, of monarchs are produced here in the spring, and it is these offspring of the overwintering generation that continue the migration to the northern breeding range.
Most larvae from the spring and summer broods go into diapause in early instars, but some continue to mature to produce another flight of adults about six weeks later.
Nestling growth and fledging success in manipulated American Kestrel broods.
A string of such happenstances might explain how the United States came to have 12 separate broods of 17-year cicadas.
Starlings can rear up to two broods a year, in April and May.
In addition to benefiting deer, forest openings provide important food sources for wild turkey and ruffed grouse broods.
Morphometry of the ditches, easy access to escape cover by broods, and the availability of adjacent nesting habitat may be the key factors which determine the suitability of level ditches as brood-rearing habitat.
As Poldark broods as only he can, Demelza continues to hide her pregnancy and stare wistfully off into the middle distance while Elizabeth gives her husband the glad eye.
While DJ Garnier sits up in his DJ box, getting the world's dancefloors grooving, Garnier the musician broods in his studio, experimenting with a more introspective sound or collaborating with fellow iconoclasts.
He now broods atop the Frozen Throne, deep in Icecrown Citadel, clutching the rune blade Frostmourne and marshaling the undead armies of the Scourge.
The Congolese used to blame their leaders for their horrific problems, but many now blame juvenile necromancy instead. With broods of ten commonplace, there are plenty of children to accuse.
There is usually a single generation each year, but two broods have been recorded.
The growing population is probably also related to the recent rescues of broods trapped in drainage canals, which were later re-released into the wild.
Terns and ducks use the areas to nest and raise their broods.
Just as he brooded over the primeval waste at creation, he broods over things today, bent on changing things, on restoring order where there is now chaos.
This hopelessness broods heavily with them and communicates itself to their children, who likewise question whether a substantial part of the few years they will have of life should be spent in school.
During the summer, some dabbling duck species nest and then raise their broods in the marsh, including northern pintails, shovelers, black ducks and mallards, as well as greenwinged teals.
Mean brood density was 0.23, 1.24 and 0.93 broods per hectare of open water for the Ash Swamp, Scovil Point, and Upper Hampstead level ditching sites respectively.
In this picture the medieval artist Hugo van der Goes – who in real life was confined to a monastery because of mental illness – broods in torment, while those around him despair of helping the afflicted man.
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Mumbai's Doongerwadi broods on despite its luxe location.
Will governments, especially in democracies, have the nerve to tell people to drop their old cultural values in favour of smaller broods? And can wealth creation match population growth?
During the 199742000 study, the researchers studied broods of the viviparous eelpout, a small bottom-dwelling marine fish.
Part of this work included dedicated aerial surveys for Harlequin Duck broods conducted on select tributaries of the Lower Churchill River mainstem.
The swannery, established by monks, still provides protection for hundreds of birds and their broods, and you can wander safely around their nests.
The periodical cicada Brood XIX emerged during May and June 2011 in southernmost Posey County, bringing to five the number of established broods in Indiana.
Her loyal subjects need her, and so she doughtily broods on.

The great silence had nothing of that awesomeness which broods in the mountain calm of wilder solitudes.
In the silence and vacuity which follow the impromptu on his orchestrion, the composer yearns, broods, aspires.
The female has two broods in the year, and each time she lays from five to seven eggs, of an apple green.
Deep under the reach of the sweet living breath, And begirt with the broods of the desert of Death.
The boreal summer is short and if broods are to be raised there is no time to waste.
The Hessian fly has two broods, the fly appearing both in spring and autumn.
So we hastened to the stable yard and inspected the kennels, where the two mothers lay with their slithery tail-wagging broods.
Silence broods in the arena, and in every interstice the maidenhair fern grows rife among the decaying stones.
Successive broods of the clothes moth appear through the summer.
Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us.
He hunted, too, for deep-boring grubs under the bark of the trees, and robbed the wasps of their new broods.
And to complete it all his horse stumbled upon several large broods of half-grown quail, and the air was filled with the thrum of their flight.
The bobwhite roosts on the ground and always remains in single broods.
History broods over that part of the world like the easterly 157 haar.
The sea is calm, and the halcyon broods, and only love is eternal.
Fluffy little chicks would hatch out three weeks later, the broods venturing onto Cae Cefn following the mother hens.
Along with the difficult case, Rebus also broods on his life decisions, his advancing age and the relevance of his school of thought in the present time.
Differences in the amount of use tall fescue and NWSG receive by gallinaceous broods is more likely determined by vegetative parameters rather than invertebrate abundance.
In addition, females can initiate second broods within 7-10 days after the first brood fledges, leaving males with sole feeding responsibility for juveniles at ca.
And they say the shortage of wild flower seeds is responsible for the decline of the turtle dove, which has cut the number of broods it raises each year from three to two.

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