How to Use nestling in a Sentence

nestling

noun

• Among birds, whip-poor-will nestlings hatch from their eggs during the new moon.
  — National Geographic, 6 July 2017
• Among birds, whip-poor-will nestlings hatch from their eggs during the new moon.
  — National Geographic, 6 July 2017
• If a baby bird is a nestling (three to 10 days old) on the ground, it should be put back into its nest.
  — Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 17 June 2018
• Already larger than the host chicks, the cowbird then out-competes them for food the host adults bring to the nestlings.
  — Taylor Piephoff, charlotteobserver, 30 June 2017
• Bags also pack a clear vitrine, nestling one of the many ear sculptures.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2023
• Would all of the activity cause the parent birds to abandon the nestlings?
  — Ernie Cowan, sandiegouniontribune.com, 18 May 2017
• Toone will be responsible for the care of the nestling at the park after it is hatched at the San Diego zoo in about 35 days.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Feb. 2023
• The first of the eggs hatched on Tuesday, and as of this morning, all four nestlings could be seen with their mouths agape, looking to be fed.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 21 May 2020
• This creates an elastic cup that expands as the tiny nestlings grow.
  — Ernie Cowan, sandiegouniontribune.com, 14 Sep. 2017
• The number of bald eagle nests being used for eggs and nestlings fell to at most seven in the early 1970s.
  — USA TODAY, 24 Dec. 2019
• Biologists used rock climbing gear to ascend the cliffs and reach the two nestlings.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Aug. 2023
• The nestling wasn't the first hawk brought this month to Willowbrook by Naperville Animal Control.
  — Suzanne Baker, Naperville Sun, 27 June 2017
• If the drones scare the eagles off the nest, the nestlings are exposed to temperatures and ravens waiting to whisk the eggs or eaglets away for a quick snack.
  — Debra Utacia Krol, azcentral, 27 Feb. 2020
• The entire operation is brief and the nestling is returned home.
  — Amy Joi O'Donoghue, USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2021
• Songbirds also get rid of uneaten food, dead nestlings, and eggshells in their nests, Guigueno says.
  — Barry Mansell, National Geographic, 8 Apr. 2016
• Phoenix: An increase of bald eagle breeding areas this year didn’t result in more nestlings in the state.
  — USA TODAY, 15 Nov. 2019
• The unsuspecting vireo will then raise the cowbird chicks, which grow faster than its own and outcompete the vireo nestlings for food.
  — Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Feb. 2024
• But a few days later, a biologist was able to confirm that the nestling was healthy and active.
  — Jesse Klein, Wired, 11 Dec. 2020
• In the past, a few eagle nests have been raided by black bears with predictably bad results for the nesting eagles (i.e., loss of that year’s nestlings).
  — Helena Wegner, Anchorage Daily News, 28 July 2023
• Furthermore, the birds have been recorded preying on earthworms, small lizards, nestlings and eggs.
  — Jason Bittel, Smithsonian, 4 Jan. 2017
• Furthermore, the birds have been recorded preying on earthworms, small lizards, nestlings and eggs.
  — Jason Bittel, Smithsonian, 4 Jan. 2017
• That gave the bird an extra week to fledge; a wildlife biologist estimated the nestling would need two to three weeks to fledge.
  — Erin Stone, azcentral, 3 Apr. 2020
• This Ski Lodge Candle Bring the feeling of nestling by an alpine chalet fire into your living room with this on-sale candle.
  — Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR, 18 Jan. 2023
• But this occurs only when birds are nestlings and still maturing.
  — Marlene Cimons, Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2018
• Shattuck discovered fishing line tangled around one nestling’s leg and freed the bird.
  — Washington Post, 29 July 2019
• But when their parents are away, the nestlings take turns napping, preening each other and talking to themselves.
  — Karen Hopkin, Scientific American, 12 May 2023
• Researchers in Berkeley first met Grinnell in 2013 as a nestling, and Annie appeared a few years later.
  — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2021
• The researchers measured levels of the stress hormone corticosterone in adult females and nestlings of the three species at all the nest boxes over three years.
  — Amy Mathews Amos, Scientific American, 1 Apr. 2018
• The 8-inch-long squirrels rely on conifer seeds for the bulk of their diet; insects, mushrooms, bird eggs, nestlings and other foods supplement the seeds.
  — Debra Utacia Krol, azcentral, 4 Dec. 2019
• The bird brought in as a nestling apparently had fallen from its nest in July 2020, Mitchell said in an interview.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 23 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 8 Dec 2024