. Birds and nature . i I *^**^ « w I near. Then their habit of worrying overtheir own dead works to their destruc-tion. The young are fed for several weeks,until their wings are sufficiently devel-oped to make them fully says that when the birds are veryyoung the parent alights on the groundand tears to pieces the fish which it hascaught, feeding it to its young in frag-ments of a proper size for the little birdto swallow. Later on, the parent feedsthem without alighting, and when theyoung are nearly ready to fly, it drops thefish among them and the most active ofthe flock u
. Birds and nature . i I *^**^ « w I near. Then their habit of worrying overtheir own dead works to their destruc-tion. The young are fed for several weeks,until their wings are sufficiently devel-oped to make them fully says that when the birds are veryyoung the parent alights on the groundand tears to pieces the fish which it hascaught, feeding it to its young in frag-ments of a proper size for the little birdto swallow. Later on, the parent feedsthem without alighting, and when theyoung are nearly ready to fly, it drops thefish among them and the most active ofthe flock usually gets the food. Theyoung birds before they are entirely in-dependent, however, also search forinsects in the nearby marshes. The female sits on the eggs only dur-ing the night or in wet and stormyweather. During the day, in pleasantw rather, the heat of the sun usually fur-nishes sufficient warmth. Though notsitting on the nest during the daytime,the parents are usually not far away andare in sight of the nest
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