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Anis are social birds, eating and also building their nests together. The females will then breed on the eggs together.
Cypseloidine swifts build nests with moss and lichen on ledges near or behind waterfalls and will sometimes re-use nests.
Furthermore, the experimental results are consistent with the natural pattern of success at nests.
As big as a goose and with a six-foot wingspan, the southern giant petrel nests throughout the Antarctic continent.
Crabro advena nests in soils ranging from coarse sand and loamy fine sand to silty loam and gravelly loam.
For both types of nests, daily survival rates and standard errors were calculated using the maximum-likelihood estimator of Bart and Robson.
Because the leverets are active at birth, elaborate nests are usually not built.
He speaks about penguins having to cease making their rookeries and nests when the wind gusts are really strong.
These little black oscine birds often productively make their nests in big, dark spaces with some cooling water nearby.
In the last five years, nests also have been documented for the rare Kemp's ridley and leatherback sea turtles.
The tracking also showed that a peregrine falcon took a juvenile hen harrier fledged from one of the eight successful nests.
No turnstone nests were found in 1999, apparently because of very high predation pressure from Arctic foxes.
The bird nests are wrongly believed to have aphrodisiacal value and removed.
A few lucky crows have nests under the overhanging rocks and nearby was a limekiln with orchids.
These nests and this large songbird's melodious, liquid calls are signatures of the Neotropical lowlands.
However, the interpretation of sign at nests to classify nest predators was almost wholly ineffective.
Magpie nests are usually high in trees, bulky structures of sticks lined with grass.
Nesting areas typically have emergent vegetation to which these birds anchor their nests and open water in which they can forage.
Sections of upper beach were fenced to protect nests, and regulations limiting some recreational activities were posted and enforced.
On occasions woodchats have been known to plunder the nests of other birds, which may explain the anxiety of a pair of stonechats nearby.
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Two cuckoo and two magpie nestlings were removed from different nests a day before being tested together in a same artificial nest.
More than 30 eggs and 15 nests were rescued on Tuesday, and 35 hatchlings and juvenile birds were put on incubators.
To protect eggs and hatchlings from predators, volunteers and staff search for nests and collect eggs for incubation.
The presence of remnant yolk sacs was a good indication that these were indeed hatchlings emerging from their nests.
Creation of artificial hatcheries and placing restraining cages over nests proved counter-productive.
After hatch, nests were checked irregularly after feeding observations to minimize disturbance.
The young bird is the offspring of the well-known pair of black eagles that nests in the Walter Sisulu Botanical Garden.
We observed several instances of Crested and Chimango caracaras feeding on rhea eggs in deserted nests.
We found nests during incubation, and estimated the hatching date by candling eggs.
Information recorded for all nests in all years included date found, incubation stage determined by floatation or candling, and status.
Nest initiation dates were estimated by candling incubating nests and assuming an incubation period of 24 to 26 days for hatching nests.
At each study site, we plotted the location of all nest predators seen or heard relative to robin nests.
A peep of chickens, recently evicted from their nests along Highway 99 by road construction, has taken residence in parking lot shrubbery.
The forest had fallen into sleep, its animals quiet, curled in their burrows and nests for the night.
These researchers studied brown-headed cowbirds, a species that lays eggs in the nests of other species, in their case indigo buntings.
The nests are usually located on dry land close to water, in areas with dense cover, especially bulrush.
Swallows build nests by packing together bits of mud with their sticky saliva.
The most commonly known varieties of vespids are the social wasps, with their conspicuous paper-like nests and sometimes aggressive behavior.
It wasn't long before the children were spotting deer tracks, gopher burrows, butterflies, hornets' nests and budding flowers.
Young ones, as soon as they were fully developed, would be shaken out of their nests, a spectacle much commented upon by travellers.
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Crows and sparrows have been known to attack innocent passers-by who happen to stroll near their nests.
However, even nests may be difficult to locate in areas with heavy vegetational cover and structure.
Increased predation affects the survival of nests and broods immediately after hatching, when the chance of total loss is highest.
The birds were in full song in the trees, busily making nests or feeding young.
Most favor Joshua trees for their nests, but many have discovered utility poles and ornamental trees.
In southern Florida, utility companies now grapple with monk parakeets and the massive, nettlesome nests they build atop transmission poles.
At the end of the food deprivation period, we removed all nestlings from their nests and put them in a cloth bag.
They are very aggressive and are able to take over nests and kill the eggs and nestlings of other birds.
Occupied herons' nests may be readily told by numerous droppings on the ground beneath them.
A hotel worker dons a gas mask to keep out the stench from bird droppings while removing the nests from the rafters.
We followed a faint path south, passing a small loch below Sidhean Beag where bonxies were creating turmoil amongst the oystercatcher nests.
In particular, he was interested in those other inhabitants of ant nests referred to as myrmecophiles.
The time-honored field method for the myrmecologist is to wander about, locating ant nests, digging into them and collecting samples.
The difference between the temperatures of the eggs in the unheated and heated nests was calculated hourly over a 24-h period.
All along the beach feral dogs have raided turtle nests and eaten the unhatched eggs.
After the young had fledged, we sieved the nests contents to look for unfledged young.
The marbled murrelet, a threatened seabird species, nests primarily in old-growth trees up to 75 kilometers from the coast.
If we did that, we would destroy the nests of the skylark and meadow pipit, which is illegal.
Recreational boating on nesting lakes, which can flood nests, may also have a negative impact on populations of Forster's Terns.
The inorganic material can consist of clay nests of mud from insects or birds.
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The mud dauber wasp is named for the way the females construct nests from bits of mud.
There are anecdotal reports of bluebirds and House Wrens taking over the nests of Ash-throated Flycatchers.
The Mountain Bluebird is the only bluebird that nests in alpine parkland and high elevation open areas.
About 20 percent of males mature when only 2 years old and spend their lives siring offspring in other males' nests.
Hornets and yellow jackets are paper wasps, too, but they build enclosed nests.
But a dam upriver would have caused greater flooding in the Raspaculo, where the threatened keel-billed motmot, a bright-green songbird, nests.
Such social hymenoptera may live together in nests or hives of many thousands of individuals, all descended form a single queen.
Move slowly, especially through overhanging vegetation and brush, to avoid disturbing nests and hives.
They place their nests at the bases of large trees in burrows under the roots, or under grass tussocks.
They climb trees with ease and prey on birds, chicks and eggs in their nests.
Bombing birds' nests is actually a boon for bird-watchers, since the ones that survive become rarer, and more exciting to spot.
Even if some nests were misclassified using this technique, the number of nests where this was the sole means of detecting parasitism was small.
As their name suggests, miners make their nests in holes along creek banks or in burrows.
Our study focused on the Wood Thrush, a Neotropical migrant that nests in eastern woodlands of North America.
The African Chiromantis builds arboreal foam nests, which may be, in part, made of seminal fluid.
Because ground temperatures soar up to 128 degrees Fahrenheit, the birds can die on their nests.
A baya of enterprise, energy and skill may be the proud builder of four nests in a colony, each happily occupied with a female on eggs.
Contrary to popular belief, the bird's nests are not found in the faces of cliffs but in caves.
Some species use twigs from thorny plants, making the nests difficult for predators to destroy.
Females paired to low-ranking males constructed nests near the territory edges of neighboring high-ranking males.
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My Mother always talked about them and their nests as if a caravan of thieving gypsies had set up camp in the back yard.
Female searches diligently on walls and banks for mason wasp nests which she enters, if owner is absent, to parasitise the larvae.
This marking method is less invasive than a tattoo, and marked individuals return within minutes to their nests.
Spheniscus species generally use unlined nests in burrows, crevices, caves, or surface scrapes.
New Zealand quail nests were shallow scrapes in the ground with grass lining.
On a recent day, the squawking penguins were busily finding partners, preparing nests and waddling about the mating grounds.
Elegant Terns sometimes breed in mixed colonies with other terns or Heerman's Gulls, where their nests are packed closely together.
The ore zone is a combination of veinlets, lenses, and nests of pyrite and quartz.
In many eusocial wasps, nests are founded by single females that remain alone until offspring emergence.
Common wasps are social insects and live in nests of up to around 10,000 workers.
The Siberian flying squirrel is a nocturnal arboreal rodent that nests in tree cavities, twig dreys, and nest-boxes.
When water from a nearby active stream flooded into the dry watercourse, the nests and eggs, like those on the flats, were inundated with mud.
In dry conditions when wet mud is difficult to obtain swallows will take over old nests of other birds including house martins and blackbirds.
Microscopic examination revealed nests and cords of clear cells separated by a fibrous and acellular mucoid stroma.
The tumor cells were arranged in nests, with adjacent acellular myxoid areas.
Common waxbills are small African finches that select carnivore scat as a material to include in, on, and around their nests.
The Grassquit resides in small flocks and likes to use empty bananaquit nests for roosting at night.
I can hear house martins chattering away in their nests under the eaves as I write these words.
The researchers say that nestlings in at least half of the nests they studied were eaten, mainly by martens and weasels.
Crows, Cuckoos and Parakeets are very destructive, parakeets not only destroy fruit tree buds but also raid nests and kill nestlings.
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The nests are usually constructed of mud mixed with straw, grasses, or horsehair, and cemented to the vertical surfaces of old beams or rafters.
I checked nests at least weekly and usually daily around the supposed time of laying and hatching.
An egg thief who raided bird's nests in Orkney has been placed on probation and had his car confiscated.
All termite species build nests, also known as termitaries or termitaria, but the specifics of these nests can vary.
Carrion Crow nests are conspicuous and we were able to observe birds delivering food to nestlings using spotting scopes.
Using the telescopic lens I analysed the terrain, looked for nests but found none.
That is the reason why most of the nests are in the feeding area of the bird.
What is interesting is that the rufous hornero laboriously build a new nest every year, abandoning their nests to be used by other animals.
Bald Eagles build large stick nests called eyries in tall trees or on cliffs.
Cows swayed slowly in their sleep, a horse whinnied in its dream, and chickens bobbed up and down up in their nests atop rafters.
Long-eared Owls usually nest in abandoned stick nests, often the nests of magpies, crows, ravens, or hawks.
Common ravens were seen removing whole eggs from five nests attended by female Steller's eiders.
It was the noise of thousands of baby cormorants, razorbills, gannets and guillemots, demanding food from their nests on the cliffs.
Blackbirds seem to maximize that benefit by aggregating their nests in dense colonies.
In addition to the tubules, the epithelial cells may also form nests, cords, single cells, micropapillae, and keratinous cysts.
Some tropical bird species rear their young near wasp nests and depend on the insects to repel predators.
As a result, the hornbill project has to provide young hornbills with human-made nests.
The law states that if birds nests are found after work has started, work must stop immediately and not recommence until the chicks have fledged.
The natives would dig into the ground looking for the nests of honeypot ants.
He hid near nests of black woodpeckers, kingfishers, northern hazel hens and Eurasian sparrow hawks.
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Bees buzz around a honeypot and huge storks feather their nests on every available chimney pot and ledge.
By now reddish feathery streaks coloured sections of the blue sky, and more birds were homing towards their nests.
In a broader survey of this population of kookaburras, the youngest nestling in broods of three was killed in one third of nests.
Maunder explained that flea eggs, the worm-like larvae, are born in autumn and survive in nests around the household over winter.
The high krantzes where young herons squawked on their nests waiting for the last meal of the day to be brought to them added to atmosphere.
Mice had invaded the boxes and made nests out of old shoelaces and wrapping paper.
My own small back garden contains the live nests of wrens, blackbirds and sparrows, so there will be scores more on the campus.
The destruction of nests discourages infestations by dermestid beetles and other insect scavengers which could move to other household items.
We calculated a mean exclusion probability by averaging the probabilities for individual nests.
We equipped the adults of study nests with one small magnet, attached to a tail feather with cloth-backed adhesive tape.
So dark would it be that the birds would return to their nests, while nocturnal animals would emerge from their lairs.
After Brazil's economic crisis shifted buying power into reverse, some couples relocated their love nests from pricey motels to parking garages.
Females lay eggs in other birds' nests and leave the rearing to other species.
Other insects observed in the nests were a few small, undetermined dipteran larvae in one nest, and small detritivorous rove beetles in 10 nests.
Columbids will re-use nests and will build nests on top of abandoned bird nests.
Among sunfishes, gobies, and darters, 8 of 122 nests surveyed were probable takeovers.
By closely examining the nests of birds, we get a glimpse of solutions to the general problems associated with oviparity.
When they are raising young or robbing nests, Steller's Jays become very quiet and inconspicuous.
Brood parasitic birds lay eggs in the nests of host birds that raise the parasitic offspring to independence.
Last summer, Caitlin observed bald eaglets fledging from nests at two sites.
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They said this work should have been delayed until after the birds had nested and young had left the nests.
Eastern woodlands Aphaenogaster ants make twenty-inch-deep nests occupied by a few hundred workers.
A typical army ant species lives in nests underground that are built out of the living bodies of its workers.
Just as humans keep cows for their milk, certain ant species rear aphids and other insects in their nests and consume their secretions.
And of course you can see green ant nests if you're walking through the bush throughout Australia, can't you?
When the forest floor is blanketed in snow, the birds use their powerful bills to dig out ant nests from tree trunks and tree bases.
The majority of these insects build nests and therefore suitable nest sites must be maintained.
Insect nests have guards who deter entry by both conspecific and allospecific intruders.
Leaf-cutting ants travel from their nests to trees and hack off bits of leaves, which they grip in their mandibles.
Fill meringue nests by first adding some chopped mango, then a dollop of passion fruit cream, finishing off with more chopped mango.
When I make these for the real event I'm going to make bowls or nests for the apples to sit in so no one has to tear away spiky sugar.
Many of these hill stations began life as long ago as the 1820s, when early British settlers first sought nests in attractive locations.
A subquery occurs when a developer nests one SQL statement within another SQL statement.
Moreover, in the high waters, coral reefs no longer could protect the islands and their birds' nests from storms and rough seas.
Most larks are ground nesters and build open-cup nests in small, excavated hollows in the ground.
Although yellow jackets are social insects like honeybees, they use their nests for only one season.
We found that parental males keep track of how many sneaker males they see loitering near their nests during spawning time.
Their photographs confirm it was frequent to find nests in deeply flooded reedbeds with water lapping the nest edges.
In the spring the hungry animals tear out birds nests and eat eggs and young.
Fairy-wrens build domed nests of grass and bark fibre, lined with soft down from zamia palms, banksia wool or feathers.
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Females will fly to their nests in zigzags or semi-circles to avoid leading a predator directly to the nest.
It built its nests in cavities among tree roots or in fallen logs or clumps of ferns.
He observed that both species construct nests similar to those of some caciques and, curiously, they often nest together in mixed-species colonies.
Japanese queenless ants, Pristomyrmex pungens, have been observed defending their nests, food resources, and recruitment trails against other conspecific colony members.
The quest for the hornbill began with a search by the team for nests.
I leave acorns and leaves and nests alone when I come across them.
The little seabird nests high in coastal forests, a fact that had eluded ornithologists until several years ago, when a bird with webbed feet flopped out of a felled tree.
She takes me across to one of the dried food stores where, in racks of jars behind the counter, are birds' nests waiting for their moment in soup.
To reach the nests, biologists rappelled down ravines, carrying with them a picnic cooler filled with warm millet to cushion the eggs and keep them warm.
Traveling by airboat over thick, floating marshes and rounded levees, he enthusiastically points at countless alligators, scurrying nutrias, and several bald eagle nests.
On occasion woodchats have been known to plunder the nests of other birds.
Sometimes, the nests are also built on the ground among reeds.
The female leopard usually gives birth to between two and three cubs, usually in a cave among rocks, thickets, hollow trees, reedy nests or wherever she can find cover.
Again the attraction is bird watching, especially pied shags feeding the young birds in their nests, great crested grebe and large numbers of paradise ducks.
While they are not highly territorial with their own species, they are aggressive toward other species and may drive native birds out of their nests.
European Starlings are cavity nesters, and nests are generally located in natural hollows, old woodpecker holes, birdhouses, or building eaves and crevices.
To estimate the total breeding population within the study area, 1 used the mean number of nests for colonies that were resurveyed once or twice in subsequent years.
Histologically, the tumor was composed of trabecular and anastomosing ribbonlike nests, identical to the features of carcinoid tumors of other sites.
Among sea turtles, Kemp's ridleys hide their nests the best.
Dense vegetation may conceal the nests and reduce the risk of predation.
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Anteaters, pangolins, and some armadillos use hook-and-pull digging with the enlarged claw of a single, enlarged manual digit to open termite or ant nests made of hard dirt.
To address that, we experimentally parasitized longspur nests with real and wooden cowbird eggs to determine whether longspurs eject cowbird eggs.
In autumn children listen to singing insects, observe and play with red dragonflies, collect inago locusts, stage spider fights, watch mantises, and collect wasps' nests.
In contrast, nesting males cannot move freely between nests because of the territorial behavior of other nesting males and the risk of losing their current nest.
Huge nests of meat ants, five to ten meters across and seething with hundreds of thousands of big red-and-black workers, dominated the more disturbed swaths of open terrain.
As many of you already know, cowbirds parasitize other, smaller birds by laying their eggs in other birds' nests, often those of thrushes, sparrows or warblers.
Since shad and herring do not make nests and there was no clear, deep channel to concentrate them, fish tended to move around even more frantically.
In pastures, nests face the additional risk of being trampled by cows.
It is quite possible, even likely, that some studies misclassify fates of nests that are depredated late in the nestling stage, leading to overestimates of nesting success.
The carcinoma consisted of nests of tumor composed of a relatively monomorphic cell population with round nuclei, evenly distributed chromatin, and scanty cytoplasm.
In addition, nonhumans would own what they build, such as hives and nests.
Her fly patterns are intricate, exacting, and hold the subtle variances of nature usually reserved for spider webs, mud dauber nests, and snowflakes.
When the chicks hatched Hernan went up again, checking out the nests while the parents and auxiliaries seethed around his head like a swarm of belligerent box kites.
Fights and chases erupt when personal penguin space is invaded or when young marauders snitch a few prized pebbles to start building nests of their own.
We will wait to see how many untagged juvenile kites turn up in due course at the Argaty feeding station at Doune, Perthshire to gauge how many nests we have actually missed.
However, due to the three firing modes, it can also engage and destroy hovering helicopters, non-armoured targets and soft targets, such as machine gun nests.
We returned nestlings to nests as quickly as possibly after processing.
All nests that contained eggs or nestlings were classified as occupied.
All nestlings were returned to their home nests at the end of each trial.
We returned nestlings to their nests and repaired cavities with duct tape.
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The vesper sparrow nests on the ground, often near patches of vegetation.
At present the policy is still to remove nests and eggs and provide residents with nets and spikes to stop the birds settling on houses in problem areas.
After being cooped up in those constricting nests for months, here they were climbing, diving, spiraling and chattering feverishly, becoming better aeronauts by the minute.
The eagles are courting, the crows building nests, the Steller's jays have come back to sit and fling insults and we can see baby salmon in the shallows of the river.
To investigate further, the biologists took to subalpine forests in the foothills of Mount Fuji, where the cuckoos lay their eggs in the nests of red-flanked bush robins.
This aged tree knows that the only invitation catbirds need to start building their nests is a sturdy bush where they can find shelter and a place to raise a family.
Both use strawflowers for bird's nests, and both also include marble or porcelain animal figurines, which could represent actual animals or garden statuary.
In one spot deep within the gorge, the pendulous nests of green oropendolas adorn the outer branches of a tall tree growing on one of the river's small islands.
Playing the louder calls on the ground increased visits by predators there, he found, but playing the relatively soft begging calls of ovenbirds from tree nests did not.
While I'm puttering around playing with words, other people are investing and accumulating and feathering their nests and compounding their interest.
Because sunbitterns are exceptionally good at catching flies and spiders, sunbittern chicks are sometimes taken from their nests and raised as pets.
The word wasp almost immediately conjures up an image of hornets swarming from papery football-shaped nests, or the fierce stings of the common paper wasp.
She's a paper wasp, specifically a member of the genus Polistes, the sort that builds small, open-celled, umbrella-like nests beneath eaves and picnic-shelter roofs.
In heavily infested nests the chicks were noticeably exsanguinated and jaundiced.
The largest colony has 32,000 nests and is on Bonaventure Island off the south coast of Quebec.
The bettongs live in moderately dry country and with the exception of the Boodie, which digs burrows, all make nests of grass on the ground.
The female nests in a depression on the surface of the ground rather than in a burrow, and the young are active as soon as they are born.
In precocial species, the mothers invest little in nest building and some do not build nests at all.
Females with altricial young typically build elaborate nests before they give birth and maintain them until their offspring are weaned.
They'll be on the look our for harvest mice and their nests for their latest survey and monitoring work.
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A few years ago, the Wildlife Trust used 350 of them as nests for harvest mice.
The 9km Saadiyat Beach plays host to several Hawksbill turtle nests every year.
At around seven to twelve days old, the chicks begin to move out of their nests and explore their surroundings.
The Inca tern nests in crevices, caves and disused burrows, such as that of a Humboldt penguin.
For example, the sole ectoparasite observed associated with barn swallow nests in Manitoba were hematophagous mites.
The cliffs containing the colonies appear to be covered in snow when seen from a distance, due to the number of nests present on them.
Although they hunt alone, herons raise their young in colonies called heronries, in rough nests of sticks.
Not far away grey herons, in their heronry a mere four miles from Birmingham city centre, were busy renovating their untidy nests.
Loons use a variety of materials to build their nests including aquatic vegetation, pine needles, leaves, grass, moss and mud.
Most of the nests are constructed on precarious perches nestled in the virtually vertical cliffs of the basalt and conglomerate.
The loggerhead sea turtle nests and hatches along the beaches of Rethymno and Chania and the gulf of Messara.
Most ocean life breeds in specific places, nests or not in others, spends time as juveniles in still others, and in maturity in yet others.
The marbled murrelet nests inland in old growth forest, seeking huge conifers with large branches to nest on.
Occurrence and demography of mites of Tree Swallow, House Wren, and Eastern Bluebird nests.
Hatchings occur more quickly in nests that are warmer than nests that are in cooler conditions.
The birds are busy establishing territories and building nests.
Birds, small mammals, and other opportunists dig up the nests of turtles and consume eggs.
Asian exploitation of turtle nests has been cited as the most significant factor for the species' global population decline.
We erected predator exclosures at most nests on beaches but did not construct exclosures around nests along rivers.
The beach of Rantau Abang in Terengganu, Malaysia, once had the largest nesting population in the world, hosting 10,000 nests per year.
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Since chicks do not have the ability to fly nests close to sea provide easy access when leaving the colony.
We scrumped apples, found hens' nests that had laid away from Dockers Farm and we skated on thick ice in the spinney.
The Manx shearwater nests in the North Atlantic, the Cory's in North Africa.
A pond bottom with many bluegill nests can look as if it were trampled by elephants.
Blind snakes were taken into the nest as prey items but some survived in nests to live in a novel commensal association with the owls.
A member of the Sawbill family, it nests next to the garden's lake and feeds on fish and water insects.
The mason bee likes to lay its eggs in hollow plant stems, s o we have made our artificial nests from lengths of bamboo canes bundled together.
The standard soap-opera attractive fellows to take back to their bungalow love nests.
David Attenborough observes animals that also build structures, including nests created by Bowerbirds.
Surplus chicks are sometimes removed from nests to use in reintroduction programs in areas where the species has died out.
The cells are arranged in nests and sheets with intervening fibrous septae.
Multiple nests can form an alveolar pattern and be surrounded by collagen and dense fibrous septae.
To allow the fat cats and bean counters to line their already bulging nests.
Here, I describe the nest of the Hooded Berryeater on the basis of six complete nests found in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, southern Brazil.
Stoats are vulnerable to ectoparasites associated with their prey and the nests of other animals on which they do not prey.
Four of the six nests contained Lesser Prairie-Chicken and Ring-necked Pheasant eggs, and eggs of both species hatched in two of these nests.
A comparison of the characteristics and fate of Barrow's Goldeneye and Bufflehead nests in nest boxes and natural cavities.
The shortgrass prairie population of Canada geese, made up of two small races, nests in whitefront country, too.
Garlic spare ribs and nests of Imperial Jewels completed the appetizing gems.
Unnaturally high water levels soak sparrow nests, make eggs vulnerable to rice rats and snakes, or otherwise halt nesting.
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Cactus wrens, white-winged doves, and red-tailed hawks build nests in the crotches between arms and the trunk.
One of the nests in San Pedro was located within a dense Calathea patch and the other was located inside a bamboo patch.
Bird nests have been found in the opening of the AH-64 tail rotor and nestled underneath the cambered fairing of a Black Hawk.
The Aleutian Canada goose nests entirely on islands of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge.
Leafcutter bees, which line their nests with leaf fragments, pollinate our pea-type plants.
However, the upper parts of the island were interspersed with nests of kelp gulls and Peruvian diving-petrels.
For the first time, researchers have found nests of a social insect with helpers that are neither close kin nor slaves.
Wood ants incorporate an antimicrobial resin from conifer trees into their nests, preventing microbial growth in the colony.
Don't miss the opportunity to see the biggest wood ant nests ever discovered in the North.
Mud dauber nests are made by the female wasps and each cell contains one egg.
Bat habitats include caves, trees, mines, abandoned weaverbird nests, abandoned termite mounds, or attics and roofs of homes.
We found upon closer examination that these groups appeared to occur near active Accipiter nests.
A threatened seabird that nests only in old-growth forests, Marbled Murrelets embody the interconnection between ocean and forest ecosystems.
Presently there is no record of springtail from the nests of any Neotropical Ponerinae.
French troops, submitting to a trial by fire, drew toward the German forts, capturing and holding some machine-gun nests.
Trace fossils are the remains of the activity of an animal, such as preserved trackways, footprints, fossilised egg shells, and nests.
Stoats regularly climb trees to gain access to birds' nests, and are common raiders of nest boxes, particularly those of large species.
However, there are no confirmed accounts of predation by other bird species on golden eagle nests.
Necrotic egg and hatchling remains are key factors attracting dipterans to sea turtle nests in central Queensland, Australia.
The most serious predators of peregrine nests in North America and Europe are the great horned owl and the Eurasian eagle owl.
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Cliff nests are generally located under an overhang, on ledges with vegetation.
Where necessary, encrusted material such as mussels or tubeworm conglomerates was selectively dislodged to check for underlying nests.
In summer, trees fill with bird and squirrel nests, cool shadows, raucous cicadas, and stridulating crickets.
North American Myrmecophilus species are inquilines that inhabit the nests of many ant species.
Ant peace and war The largest ant supercolony yet found stretched in a network of cooperating nests from Italy to the Atlantic.
Here, the species nests near the tree line and hunt subalpine and alpine pastures, grassland and heath above.
Flattened sustentacular cells can sometimes be highlighted in the periphery of the cell nests with S-100 protein.
The nests of cuboidal cells were surrounded by satellite spindle sustentacular cells.
The distance between nests ensures sufficient food supply for pairs and their chicks.
For centuries, traditional Chinese doctors have been using swiftlet nests to cure various ailments, raise libido and rejuvenate skin.
The nests are white and translucent and can be found wherever colonies of swiftlets are breeding, in caves, on cliffs or sometimes on a building.
Bird's Nest actually refers to the nests that are built by small birds called swiftlets.
Descriptions of 41 nests were taken by the authors in the region of the lower Ob river basin.
In addition, peregrines have been documented preying on chicks in nests, from birds such as kittiwakes.
Dipper nests are usually large, round, domed structures made of moss, with an internal cup of grass and rootlets, and a side entrance hole.
Neoplastic cells were cuboidal to polygonal, with variable degrees of squamous differentiation and cornification toward the center of nests.
They are benign vascular malformations that originate in mesodermal nests of vasoformative tissue.
Among other birds, the green parakeets were found in abundance, also the red-tailed tropic-bird, which nests in the pumice tufts.
The driving of vehicles on beaches can crush nests buried in the sand and such activity should be avoided in nesting areas.
Some small dermestids are found in bee or wasp nests, where they feed on old pollen stores or on dried remains of bees or wasps.

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