Wednesday, 22 February 2012

WHAT DO YOU CALL A BABY BIRD?




The school cleaners discovered a nest with baby birds and showed it to me.  That got me wondering ... what do you call a baby bird?  I searched the Internet and found the answer.

In general young birds (without reference to their species) can be referred to as:
fledglings (as they start to get feather)
hatchlings (when just out of the egg)
nestlings (while the live in the nest)
Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_do_you_call_a_young_bird#ixzz1n1fty635

So the baby birds above are nestlings.

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