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• The chicks will be big enough to leave the nest by June.
  — Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 3 May 2024
• And as for her own life as Jeffrey looks to leave the nest?
  — Giovana Gelhoren, PEOPLE.com, 6 May 2022
• Be prepared for the young birds to leave the nest later in June.
  — Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News, 18 June 2021
• Melissa Gorga is on the verge of having the first of her kids leave the nest.
  — Joelle Goldstein, Peoplemag, 11 Feb. 2023
• Many of the young adults who moved back home during the pandemic have yet to leave the nest.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2022
• Angela Bassett isn't quite ready for her kids to leave the nest.
  — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 12 Mar. 2024
• Maybe your home won’t be any more serene until your children leave the nest.
  — Megan Greenwell, Wired, 24 Feb. 2021
• The city plans to keep the falconer on site until the end of the month, when the baby birds are expected to leave the nest.
  — orlandosentinel.com, 26 Apr. 2021
• At about four-months-old, platypus offspring leave the nest, venturing out on their own.
  — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 1 June 2022
• After five months, about the time a bird would typically leave the nest in the wild, the young condors are moved to a facility about a mile away from the park.
  — Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 6 Oct. 2022
• In spring, summer, and early fall young birds get their first flight feathers and start practicing to leave the nest while learning to fly.
  — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 12 May 2021
• Parents continue care for 2-4 weeks after chicks leave the nest.
  — Val Cunningham Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 8 June 2021
• Gray partridge chicks, for example, can leave the nest within hours of hatching.
  — Animals, 10 Dec. 2020
• Wild cottontails can live up to five years, but the average life expectancy for those that are old enough to leave the nest is only around 11 months.
  — Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 28 Mar. 2024
• After new broods of baby spiders hatched, the scientists watched to see if the spiderlings would leave the nest to eat, and whether the mother spiders would bring food back to the nest.
  — Anna Funk, Discover Magazine, 29 Nov. 2018
• The Carol actress has already seen her two eldest children — Dashiell, 22, and Roman, 19 — leave the nest for college.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 15 Feb. 2024
• Dear Thrown: Many parents look forward to reviving the relationship and getting out more when the children leave the nest.
  — Dr. June Hall, cleveland, 25 July 2022
• Experts say the behavior ends once chicks leave the nest, which happens to be protected by federal law.
  — Anna Caplan, Dallas News, 1 July 2021
• Over the next few weeks, high schoolers and college students across the country will don their caps and gowns and attend their graduation ceremonies, ready to leave the nest and make their mark on the world.
  — Glenn Rowley, Billboard, 17 May 2022
• The bee brain is also better able to form new connections early in life, before workers first leave the nest to begin foraging.
  — Byerik Stokstad, science.org, 27 Oct. 2022
• Jennifer Garner's older daughter is preparing to leave the nest.
  — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 28 Nov. 2023
• The young model has been working on the runway for a while now, and is Heidi's first child to leave the nest to continue pursuing her passions, as well as attend college in Manhattan.
  — Emma Becker, PEOPLE.com, 28 June 2022
• As interesting as the period after the hummingbird young of the year leave the nest is, the fall migration period is even more exciting.
  — Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 24 Sep. 2020
• Every parent has different views on how early their kids should leave the nest and Shaquille O’Neal is voicing his personal preference.
  — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 25 Apr. 2022
• Young adults are often encouraged to leave the nest as a rite of passage to establish financial independence and build a life and career away from their parents.
  — Isabella Simonetti, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2023
• The birds might be safe until late summer after the birds and their fledglings leave the nest because the federal Migratory Bird Act prohibits disturbing active nests.
  — Joseph Gerth, The Courier-Journal, 2 May 2022
• Rodriguez celebrated Natasha's accomplishment while reflecting on his feelings as his first child gets ready to leave the nest.
  — Georgia Slater, Peoplemag, 3 Apr. 2023
• Extended families—mothers and fathers, sons and daughters, aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents—living in the same house is looked down on and seen as a failure to leave the nest, a failure to live the American Dream.
  — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 30 June 2020
• And when researchers repeatedly toss McDonald’s cheeseburgers to crows, the birds’ babies leave the nest chubbier, and with higher cholesterol.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 21 Feb. 2023
• Lisa is forced to evaluate her new-wave Mormon lifestyle when her oldest son, Jack, is ready to leave the nest to find his place in the Mormon church and starts exploring the traditional elements of the religion.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 11 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 1 Nov 2024