First, she showed that having extra eggs in a nest does indeed reduce hatching success.
His previous breeding partner was found dead in a nest box last November.
And the office of queen is usually occupied by the first female bee in a nest to emerge from its pupa in spring.
For the barn owls, cameras were set up in a nest box on an oak tree which fed pictures back to the wooden hide.
Even if she does not go to the hideous expense of nurturing a single offspring in her womb for nine months but, like a stickleback, simply lays her eggs in a nest prepared by a male, she still has to produce those eggs.
Not having the proper resources to cover long-term care costs can result in a nest egg being used to pay for medical expenses, post-acute institutional care such as that which is provided at a skilled nursing facility, home-health care and other health-related expenses not covered under insurance.
In the wild, according to Mr Wallace, condors are raised alone, in a secluded nest, with two stern and hierarchical parents.
If a cowbird female fails to lay in a warbler nest in time for her egg to hatch with those of the host, she can reset the clock in her favour by killing the first clutch.
They get married, buy a newlywed nest in a gated celeb-friendly development, and eventually start having kids.
Ms. Crenn said she then spied a bird's nest in a tree.
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The chairman of the Gairloch branch of the Scottish Crofting Foundation, said lambs that had not been tagged had been found dead in a sea eagle's nest in Melvaig.
In New York, a studio apartment can often run 300 square feet and smaller, and in San Francisco, you can legally nest in something as small as a cozy 220 square feet.
The idea was to check whether the animals would rather build a nest in the cooler cage or move to the warmer one, possibly tugging nesting material along with them strand by strand.
High inflation and low interest rates do ease the pressure on those with high debts, as the amount that is owed is eaten away in the same way as a nest egg of savings is affected by inflation.
But if, like most of us, you hold your nest egg in a savings account, a money market fund, real estate, or a 401(k) plan then what you care about is your real rate of return, not the inflation rate per se.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair has been the major backer for the new force, insisting that the allies cannot be content with a military victory against the Taliban and al Qaeda, and that they have a duty to rebuild Afghanistan in a way that will not allow it to become a nest of terrorism once again.
He tonged a fat hanger steak soaking in teriyaki sauce onto the broiler and started a nest of sliced onions cooking beside it.
Assuming there is a comfortable nest egg, for a single person in good health, it makes sense these days to defer taking Social Security until age 70, says Mr. Jones.
And he wrote in to Morning Edition to say he's less than five years from retirement and he's got a 100, 000-dollar nest egg invested right now, in a seemingly safe money-market account.
Indeed, during my visit Jeremy DeSimone discovered a birds' nest in one of the oak trees.
She was in the middle of beating a large nest, resting on the ground, with a log.
To bolster its green image the Nest thermostat comes in a bamboo box.
Well, this technology already exists, in the form of Nest, a smart thermostat that can be controlled remotely through a mobile app.
Indeed, Dr Kraak's analysis of the male's courtship dance is that it is designed as much to let him stop a female from laying in his nest before he has assessed her as it is to show himself off.
On her way to beg, Banafsha stops off at a center run by an Afghan nongovernmental organization called Aschiana -- the name means "nest" in Dari -- for a little education, a little recreation and a glimmer of hope.
The women arrive at the age of 19 or 20, work for five or six years, and typically return home with a tidy nest egg with which to start a small business in their home town.
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If after two times in the wilderness they decide RVing isn't for them, they will have learned a valuable lesson without squandering their nest egg in the process.
Those same instant opt-out features are also available on another service in Nest's program, a longer-duration conservation system called Seasonal Savings.
It is not known whether a chick also found dead in the nest was poisoned or starved to death after its mother died.
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