Crop milk is a secretion from the lining of the crop of parent birds in some species that is regurgitated to young birds. It is found among all pigeons...

that have a crop, it is used to temporarily store food. Not all bird species have one. In adult doves and pigeons, it can produce crop milk to feed newly...

doves also produce crop milk, though just in the glands lining the crop, which contains less fat and more protein than flamingo crop milk.) For the first...

milk, milk produced by a human mammary gland Buffalo milk, milk of a domestic water buffalo Camel milk, milk produced by camels Donkey milk, milk produced...

bird Gagana produces milk. Whether any of these authors were aware of crop milk from some species of birds is unknown. Bird's milk was first created in...

inducing inflammation or activating the complement system. Crop milk is a secretion from the crop of a bird that is regurgitated to feed their offspring....

provide crop milk. Contemporary depictions show a large crop, which was probably used to add space for food storage and to produce crop milk. It has been...

young. Mourning doves eat almost exclusively seeds, but the young are fed crop milk by their parents. In 1731, the English naturalist Mark Catesby described...

well known example of nourishing young with secretions of glands is the crop milk of columbiform birds. As in mammals, this also appears to be directed...

related pigeons provide crop milk. The risings on the crop of the female may have covered glands that produced the crop milk. If the theory is correct...

Milk is a white liquid food produced by the mammary glands of mammals. It is the primary source of nutrition for young mammals (including breastfed human...

and pigeons produce "crop milk" to feed to their young, secreted by a sloughing of fluid-filled cells from the lining of the crop. Unfledged baby doves...

to produce "crop milk" in birds is only found in pigeons, flamingos and male Emperor penguins. The father is able to produce this crop milk to temporarily...

A cash crop, also called profit crop, is an agricultural crop which is grown to sell for profit. It is typically purchased by parties separate from a farm...

studies of the composition of crop milk specific to Ducula. However, in domestic pigeons (Columba livia), the crop milk is found to contain lipids, proteins...

their crop, an additional digestive organ unique to birds, used for storing excess food; their “infant formula”, of sorts, is thus called “crop milk”. In...

regurgitation) exclusively on "crop milk" (also called "pigeon milk" or "pigeon's milk"). The pigeon milk is produced in the crops of both parents in all species...

invasion into new habitats may also be encouraged by fire. Milk thistle is an adaptive crop with low requirements. It is mainly cultivated as a medicinal...

In adult doves and pigeons, the crop can produce crop milk to feed newly hatched birds. Certain insects may have a crop or enlarged esophagus. Herbivores...

produce a nutritious fluid from glands in their crop to feed their young. Due to their diet, this crop milk is crimson in color. The first flamingo hatched...

Coconut milk is an opaque, milky-white liquid extracted from the grated pulp of mature coconuts. The opacity and rich taste of coconut milk are due to...

Both adults incubate and look after the young, feeding regurgitated crop milk to their young (a common practice for most pigeons). They have a range...

a crop, birds use it to temporarily store food. In adult doves and pigeons, the crop can produce crop milk to feed newly-hatched chicks. crop milk A secretion...

their crop or regurgitate it along with food. The pigeon family, flamingos and penguins have adaptations to produce a nutritive fluid called crop milk that...

Crop rotation is the practice of growing a series of different types of crops in the same area across a sequence of growing seasons. This practice reduces...

[unreliable source?] Initially, the squabs are fed by their parents with crop milk (or when human-raised, an appropriate substitute); some breeds are bred...

Life history timeline: 1 – 7 days: Chicks eyes closed, fed entirely on crop milk. 7 – 10 days: Chicks undergo a dietary transformation to solid food. 2...

long-eared owls, and eastern screech owls. Predators of chicks and eggs include milk snakes, coluber constrictors, blue jays, crows, eastern gray squirrels, fox...

second nest while her offspring are still growing in the first nest, fed crop milk by both parents. Establishing two breeding lines has been suggested as...

agriculture, the yield is a measurement of the amount of a crop grown, or product such as wool, meat or milk produced, per unit area of land. The seed ratio is...