One bird is generally on the look out whilst the other sits, and at the least danger the alarm is given, and the incubating partner shuffles off in a floundering way to the water.
Another interesting fact is that the female is much more brightly and richly coloured than the male, and the latter not only performs the duty of incubating the eggs, but takes the greater share in tending upon the young!
It is a most remarkable fact that the drake of this species assists the duck in bringing up the young, but not, so far as I can learn, in incubating the eggs.
If an observer near the nest exposed himself in the daytime to the incubating bird, the adult flew, but exposure at 50 feet or more from the nest only caused the incubating bird to remain alert on the nest.
A cross-bred bird from a Spanish non-incubating cock and Cochin incubating hen is mentioned in the 'Poultry Chronicle,' vol.
In the Kaw flood of June and July, 1951, for instance, the entire valley was inundated, and in smaller tributary valleys such as that of the Wakarusa, flooding is frequent at the season when skinks are incubating their eggs.
At its approach the incubating bulbul had made a great commotion which attracted the notice of the servants.
The incubating bird sat very tight, and allowed me to touch her, and had I wished to do so I could easily have caught her; such is the strength of the incubatinginstinct in some birds.
In order to impress this peculiarity of the flamingo on the mind of the reader, the worthy Bishop furnishes a picture of an incubating flamingo.
The male was incubating and was very tame, coming within a few feet of us; he also returned and sat on the empty nest after Mr. Willard had removed the eggs.
Incubating the eggs and brooding the young is apparently done entirely by the female, but both parents are active in feeding the young and in cleaning the nest.
Probably the female does most, or all, of the incubating and brooding, but both sexes assist in feeding the young and in swallowing or removing the fecal sacs.
Mr. Bowles (1902) writes of its behavior that an incubating female "passed the time eating caterpillars while the nest was being examined.
It is characteristic of the female whenincubating to let you get very close before she will leave the nest.
It is said of these birds that are very reckless in laying their eggs, at times selecting a bare limb, and how they succeed in incubating under certain conditions is remarkable.
She immediately commences theincubating process, occasionally not before the succeeding day, and for ten long days is thus engaged, when the appearance of the young reminds her that the labor is ended.
The male seems to take no direct part in theincubating process, not even so much as to see that his faithful wife is not in want of food.
This is undoubtedly designed as a roosting-place, and is used during the incubating period by the one or the other parent at night, or when not occupied in the procurement of food, or by both when the young have complete possession thereof.
The application of living heat, so to speak, is unnecessary, and it is even a question in our minds whether the female could endure the inconvenience and trials of the incubating process, in the midst of a broiling sun upon a sandy sea-shore.
In many instances the eggs are deposited before the incubating process has commenced.
While a comparatively close prisoner at home for a period of fourteen days during the incubating process, she, however, does occasionally quit its shadows, when sorely pressed by hunger, but only for a brief time.
While he takes no direct part in the incubating process, his affection for his mate, and his constant desire to please her, prove him to be, in every sense, a model companion.
In the tower of St. Aubin, a vestige of an ancient abbey named after a VI-century bishop of the city, is a ribbed cupola, typical of the incubating period of the school.
But to speak with certainty of Merovingian and Carolingian architecture is impossible, though they formed the incubating phase of Romanesque art.
On a remote spot in a very rough and rugged locality, hemmed in by immense blocks of granite, is a large incubating mound.
Having spent five months in Papua, Java, Borneo, and the Malay Peninsula, the former revisit the islands for incubating purposes.
The incubating can A, is made of block tin, and is intended to contain the milk.
At the end of the sterilising process cold water is turned on, and at the same time the overflow water cock is opened; the cold water gradually reduces the temperature, and the incubating point is quickly reached.
The containing vessel is of tin or aluminium, and has two stands, the high one for hot and the low one for cold weather, as in the latter case greater heat is needed to maintain the incubating temperature.
B, the warm water container, should be a stout walled vessel with a circular aperture in the lid, through which the incubating can may be passed, and clamped down as in C.
A cylindrical vessel is set loosely on a stand, beneath which is a lamp calculated to maintain the incubating temperature.
The incubating temperature could very conveniently be maintained by an electric radiator, and as the insulation would largely prevent leakage, the amount of electric current used would not be large.
For the preparation of soured milk, separated milk is placed in the incubating can, and heated up to 100 deg.
This building never freezes in winter, and is always some ten or fifteen degrees colder than the outside temperature in summer, making a very handy place to keep eggs for incubating purposes.
While incubating under the hen during the first few days, the egg evaporates rapidly.
Incubating the inoculated tube at a suitable temperature.
If it is intended to employ an incubating temperature of 30°C.
An incubating woodcock is notorious as a close sitter and can not usually be flushed from the nest unless nearly trodden upon; often it can be touched or even lifted from the eggs.
On a third visit the bird was found incubating the two eggs, which were on the point of hatching, and was covered with fragments of moss which she had evidently torn up and thrown over herself.
The incubating bird is not a close sitter and departs from the nest long before the intruder arrives.
As a rule the incubating bird sits very closely and will sometimes allow herself to be touched before leaving the eggs.
The incubatingbird is most solicitous about its nest.
She is perhaps the closest brooder of any incubating shore bird we encountered, so much so that she often literally had to be almost stepped on before she arose.
The only incubating bird I collected was a female.
The duck raiser figures on incubating all eggs suitable for the purpose rather than to sell any of them for other purposes as there is a greater profit in rearing and marketing the ducklings.
The incubating cellar was to Sam's liking, and he felt confident that three weeks of strict attention to temperature, moisture, and the turning of eggs, would bring results beyond my expectations.
A more equable distribution of temperature over the roof of the incubating chamber is thus ensured than would be the case if the heated water were discharged either into the centre or at any other single point only of the tank.
A method of incubating that appears to have been altogether overlooked in England--or at least never to have been practised--is that carried on by the Couveurs or professional hatchers in France.
This chimney acts as a ventilator to the incubating chambers.
The Cornell Incubator Company has endeavoured to obviate this difficulty by carrying out a series of observations on the rate at which evaporation occurs in incubating eggs under natural conditions.
Or if you tell me that you have seen an old doe with horns, or a hen with spurs, or a male bird incubating and singing on the nest, unusual as the last occurrence is, I shall not dispute you.
The robin was disturbed at first, but soon went on with her incubating in the new and more exposed position.
Indians call such incomplete nests jhulas or swings; they assert that these are made in order that the cocks may sit in them and sing to their mates while these are incubating the eggs.
He is of opinion that the incubating birds treat the eggs thus in order to prevent their getting sun-baked.
A few black-necked storks do not lay until November; thus there is always the chance of coming upon an incubating stork in the present month.
The legs of the sitting sarus crane are folded under it, as are those of incubating flamingos and other long-legged birds.
So small is the nursery that sometimes the incubating bird looks as though it were sitting across a branch.
The hen rests her chin on the lower part of this while she is incubating her eggs, and thus is able, as she sits, to see what is going on in the great world without.
Raoul" makes the extraordinary statement that incubating sarus cranes do not sit when incubating, but hatch the eggs by standing over them, one leg on each side of the nest!
In the course of a railway journey in August numbers of incubating saruses may be seen by any person who takes the trouble to look for them.
The female sits very close when incubating and will not fly until almost trod upon, trusting to her variegated markings to conceal her from observation.
The eggs are laid as closely as possible on the ledges where the incubating birds sit upright, in long rows like an army on guard.
Incubating adults were observed to peck at their breasts and scapulars from the eleventh through the fourteenth day of incubation.
The range from the wonderful woven homes of the weaver bird and the Baltimore oriole down to the bare and nestless incubating spot of the penguin is so great that nothing less than a volume can furnish space in which to set it forth.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "incubating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
