Thesaurus / nestlings

nestlings

synonyms for nestlings

MOST RELEVANT

QUIZ

Devise Dithyrambs With Help From This Word Of The Day Quiz!

Eggs and nestlings were found lying on the bare soil at the inner ends of the burrows; no nesting material was found.

A steaming hot cup of the fragrant beverage was declared by the nestlings to be "prime and delicious" in the extreme.

But there it was, in plain sight; and he loved eggs or tender nestlings.

The urchin in the enemy's tree was not the most unfortunate of the nestlings.

IN NESTING TIMEOLIVE THORNE MILLER

When the parent birds are teaching the nestlings to fly, cats also catch the little ones.

Down on the southern ridge we happened on a Wilson petrel with feathered nestlings.

Within, it is lined with the most delicate materials, such as wool and feathers, that the nestlings may be soft and warm.

By the middle of January many of the eggs have yielded nestlings which are covered with white down.

The dusky horned-owls (B. coromandus) have either finished breeding or are tending nestlings.

In April and May the bird-catchers go round and collect the nestlings in order to sell them at four annas apiece.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985