1.   When he was supposed to be playing football he used to watch the parent birds taking stuff to the nest.

2.   VALUABLE racing pigeon chicks will have to be destroyed after thieves broke into a breeding loft and stole the parent birds.

3.   Backyard bird populations rise and fall for short periods in the spring while parent birds are sitting on their eggs.

4.   The parent birds will take care of the rest.

5.   They are capable of short-distance flights, and the parent birds are often heard or seen nearby.

6.   This practice suffocates the embryos, but the parent birds continue to roost and thus are not prompted to breed a second time.

7.   This week, the parent birds abandoned the last of the three eggs they had struggled to save through snow storms.

8.   Thousands of Antarctic penguin chicks face starvation as huge icebergs and unprecedented ice levels in the Ross Sea cut parent birds off from feeding grounds, scientists said Friday.