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Each bird captured was banded, weighed, checked for the presence ofbroodpatchand primary molt, forced to regurgitate, and released.
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Only the female is observed to develop abroodpatch.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Before nesting, the females of most bird species gain a barebroodpatchby losing feathers close to the belly.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The incubating parent holds the egg against itsbroodpatchwith its wings.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The eggs then attach themselves to abroodpatch, which supplies them with oxygen.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.After implantation in or on the brood pouch orbroodpatch, the male incubates the eggs.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The female will then develop abroodpatchand incubate the eggs for 28 days or longer before they hatch.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The female develops abroodpatchof bare skin and plays the main part in incubating the eggs.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.To provide warmth to the eggs, the parents will cover them with their large webbed feet, because like their relatives they lack abroodpatch.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.They lack abroodpatch.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The breeding female has a temporary abdominalbroodpatch, in which her egg is incubated and in which the newborn young remains in safety, feeding and developing.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The female alone displays abroodpatch.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The eggs are carried in the female'sbroodpatchand the larvae are released at the most favourable season for their survival when there is the most particulate food available.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.That is why many birds have a featherless patch of bare skin, known as thebroodpatch, to allow heat to flow freely from the bird's body to the eggs.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Immediately above thebroodpatchan arch of pollen-filled cells extends from side to side, and above that again a broader arch of honey-filled cells extends to the frame tops.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Gulls and galliformes may have three brood patches.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These reddish, well-vascularized areas of skin are usually called brood patches, and improve heat transfer to the eggs.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.They each have two feather-free brood patches on their undersides where an enhanced blood supply provides heat for the egg.
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