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  2. Egg tossing (behavior) - Wikipedia

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    A common species nest that the cuckoo will choose to place its eggs in is the reed warbler. [7] The common cuckoo distinguishes the warbler's nest and will choose what specific nest to brood in depending on the foliage and distance from the nest. [7] The common cuckoo demonstrates the egg tossing behavior when they are just hatchlings. [14]

  3. Glossary of bird terms - Wikipedia

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    A juvenile bird during the period it is venturing from or has left the nest and is learning to run and fly; a young bird during the period immediately after fledging, when it is still dependent upon parental care and feeding. [213] flight Most birds can fly, which distinguishes them from almost all other vertebrate classes (cf. bats and ...

  4. Fledge - Wikipedia

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    Fledging is the stage in a flying animal's life between hatching or birth and becoming capable of flight. This term is most frequently applied to birds, but is also used for bats. [1] [2] For altricial birds, those that spend more time in vulnerable condition in the nest, the nestling and fledging stage can

  5. Common swift - Wikipedia

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    Common swifts nest in a wider variety of sites than any other species of Apus. Swifts usually nest in buildings but they can also be found nesting in holes in trees, cliffs and crevices, and even in nestboxes. Swifts usually enter their nesting holes with direct flight, and take-off is characterized by an initial free-fall. [14]

  6. Mississippi kite - Wikipedia

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    A juvenile in the nest. Mississippi kites nest in colonies. Both parents incubate the eggs and care for the young. [9] They have one clutch a year, which takes 30 to 32 days to hatch. The young birds leave the nest just 30 to 34 days after hatching. Only about 50 percent of broods succeed.

  7. Turquoise parrot - Wikipedia

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    Around 56% of eggs lead to successful fledging of young, with fieldwork in northeastern Victoria yielding an average of 2.77 young leaving the nest. The lace monitor (Varanus varius) and red fox (Vulpes vulpes) are nest predators. Baby birds may perish by overheating in very hot weather, or by being drowned in the hollows after heavy rain. [26]

  8. Violet-green swallow - Wikipedia

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    From 1981 to 1982, three independent swallow pairs were observed co-occupying the nest boxes of western bluebirds. These violet-green swallows protected the nesting site, removed fecal sacs from the boxes and fed the bluebird fledglings with no resistance from the adult western bluebirds.

  9. Chimney swift - Wikipedia

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    The sticks are glued together (and the nest to a vertical surface) with copious amounts of the bird's saliva. [57] During the breeding season, each adult's salivary glands more than double in size, from 7 mm × 2 mm (0.276 in × 0.079 in) in the non-breeding season to 14 mm × 5 mm (0.55 in × 0.20 in) during the breeding season.

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