fledging in English

verb
1
(of a young bird) develop wing feathers that are large enough for flight.
Young birds fledge at 14 to 22 days and are partially dependent on adult birds for 23 to 28 days post-fledging.
2
provide (an arrow) with feathers.

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1. But the time to fledging is much longer than in Altricial birds.

2. It's definitely tempting to dismiss this peculiar, fledging series as trivial.

3. We studied the post-fledging survival of the Whinchat, an altricial grassland passerine.

4. Through incubation and fledging, it is entirely dependent on the care of its adopted parents.

5. It's the end of spring on the Wandering Albatross's cliffs, their season for fledging.

6. Ashy storm-petrels have a long breeding cycle, laying just one egg in May and fledging in October

7. During the first days after fledging, all chicks were found hiding on the ground among the grass stubble.

8. Furthermore, this service hosts a fledging interface to national activities in these fields carried out in European countries.

9. But it did provide the inspiration for what became the fledging genre's first homerun, Atari's Pong , an electronic table tennis game.