Definition of Nestling. Meaning of Nestling. Synonyms of Nestling

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Definition of Nestling

Nestling
Nestling Nes"tling n. 1. A young bird which has not abandoned the nest. --Piers Plowman. 2. A nest; a receptacle. [Obs.] --Bacon.
Nestling
Nestling Nes"tling, a. Newly hatched; being yet in the nest.

Meaning of Nestling from wikipedia

- pellets. It is a common but not universal feature of altricial p****erine nestlings (born helpless, under constant parental care) that instead of excreting...
- The Adare Peninsula (71°40′S 170°30′E / 71.667°S 170.500°E / -71.667; 170.500), is a high ice-covered peninsula, 40 nautical miles (74 km; 46 mi) long...
- enforce offspring honesty. A weaker nestling might easily change the intensity at which it begs, but a stronger nestling which is hungry and begging can push...
- sometimes called the granular claw crab, paxillose crab, or tuberculate nestling lithode crab. Oedignathus is distinguished from other king crabs in the...
- loanwords from French (ayre) and word replacements (bird originally meaning "nestling" had replaced OE fugol). By the late 18th century, the British Empire had...
- **** of some species of nestling birds. It allows parent birds to more easily remove fecal material from the nest. The nestling usually produces a fecal...
- as our successors, persons like Khrushchev for example, who are still nestling beside us.: 47  Later known as the "16 May Notification", this do****ent...
- slower for the day or two before fledging. Nestlings vocalize to attract parents for feeding. Very young nestlings will beg if the nest is moved, but as they...
- nestling. Song sparrow nestlings in parasitized nests alter their vocalizations in frequency and amplitude so that they resemble the cowbird nestling...
- nest, the nestling and fledging stage can be the same. For precocial birds, those that develop and leave the nest quickly, a short nestling stage precedes...