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Area of bare skin on the underside of nesting birds
A brood patch, also known as an incubation patch in older literature, is an area of featherless skin on the underside of birds that exists during the nesting
Brood_patch
Behavioral tendency to sit on a clutch of eggs to incubate them
one or several patches of bare skin on the ventral surface. These reddish, well-vascularized areas of skin are usually called brood patches which improve
Broodiness
Warm-blooded animals with wings and feathers
outward. Before nesting, the females of most bird species gain a bare brood patch by losing feathers close to the belly. The skin there is well supplied
Bird
Order of birds
monogamous, pairing up to rear their respective clutches. These birds lack a brood patch. The young are altricial, hatching from the egg helpless and naked in
Pelecaniformes
Large flightless seabird endemic to Antarctica
male spends the dark, stormy winter incubating the egg against his brood patch, a patch of skin without feathers. There he balances it on the tops of his
Emperor_penguin
Bird behaviour related to reproduction and early development
penguins and king penguins have skin-fold brood pouches. Non-incubating species, like some cuckoos, lack brood patches. Hatching can be synchronous (chicks
Breeding_behaviour_of_birds
Process by which certain egg-laying animals hatch their eggs
species such as bird species generally, body heat from the brooding patch of the brooding parent provides the constant temperature. Several groups, notably
Egg_incubation
Pregnancy in males
After implantation in or on the brood pouch or brood patch, the male incubates the eggs. Many species osmoregulate the brood pouch fluid to maintain a suitable
Male_pregnancy
Genus of diving seabirds
islands and coasts, normally laying one chalky-blue egg. They lack brood patches and use their webbed feet to warm the eggs. They reach maturity around
Gannet
Genus of Auk
chick (or "puffling"). The incubating parent holds the egg against its brood patch with its wings. The chicks fledge at night. After fledging, the chicks
Puffin
Species of fish
cares for the developing eggs. Females lay around 120 eggs onto the brood patch located on the underside of the male's tail. The eggs are fertilised
Common_seadragon
Species of bird
being 79% liquid, and otherwise mostly protein. The female develops a brood patch of bare skin and plays the main part in incubating the eggs. The male
House_sparrow
Species of fish
with her ovipositor, a long tube. The eggs then attach themselves to a brood patch, which supplies them with oxygen. After 9 weeks, the eggs begin to hatch
Leafy_seadragon
Species of North American bird
fibers. The eggs are usually incubated by female cardinals, who have brood patches, while the male cardinal forages for food. Newly hatched cardinals weigh
Northern_cardinal
Animal reliance on other individuals to raise its young
Brood parasitism is a subclass of parasitism and phenomenon and behavioural pattern of animals that rely on others to raise their young. The strategy
Brood_parasitism
Species of bird
Barrionuevo, Melina; Frere, Esteban (2016). "Egg temperature and initial brood patch area determine hatching asynchrony in Magellanic penguin Spheniscus magellanicus"
Magellanic_penguin
Species of bird
ISBN 978-0-143-57092-9. St. Clair, Colleen (1992). "Incubation Behavior, Brood Patch Formation and Obligate Brood Reduction in Fiordland Crested Penguins". Behavioral Ecology
Fiordland_penguin
Species of bird
period of 1 to 2 days. [citation needed] The female alone displays a brood patch. The chicks may be heard peeping in the hours before they hatch. Once
Common_nighthawk
Large flightless bird endemic to Australia
to turn the eggs, which he does about ten times a day. He develops a brood patch, a bare area of wrinkled skin which is in intimate contact with the eggs
Emu
Body-covering structure of birds
Scott (1997). "On the Thermal Capacity of a Bird's Egg Warmed by a Brood Patch" (PDF). Physiological Zoology. 70 (4): 470–80. doi:10.1086/515854. PMID 9237308
Feather
Species of bird
nonsitting bird keeps watch. Since the blue-footed booby does not have a brooding patch, it uses its feet to keep the eggs warm. The incubation period is 41–45
Blue-footed_booby
brood eggs that is characterized by cessation of laying and by marked changes in behavior and physiology". Example usage: "a broody hen". brood patch
Glossary_of_bird_terms
Family of birds
number of other aquatic birds, which all lack external nostrils and a brood patch, but have all four toes webbed and a gular sac. The closest living relatives
Sulidae
Hindlimbs primarily used for the anchoring and locomotion of avians
related Cradling and turning eggs during incubation. Birds lacking a brood patch incubate the eggs with their feet – grasping one or even two of them
Bird_feet_and_legs
Species of seabird
responsibilities are shared by both parents. They each have two feather-free brood patches on their undersides, where an enhanced blood supply provides heat for
Atlantic_puffin
Soft, fine feather, sometimes under larger feathers
dual function of helping to insulate the eggs and exposing the female's brood patch—an area of bare skin, rich in blood vessels, which transmits heat very
Down_feather
Species of bird
leaves, and both bring food to chicks after they hatch. Females possess a brood patch—a spot on their stomach lacking feathers—that helps them transfer body
Emerald_starling
Species of bird
post hatch. During incubation, male North Island brown kiwi develop a brood patch, where feathers are shed from the lower abdomen, which has been assumed
North_Island_brown_kiwi
Species of bird
they can be told apart when caught for ringing by the presence of a brood patch or cloacal protuberance. Juvenile birds have dark spots on the breast
Sedge_warbler
Species of bird
× 1.5 in) and weigh about 42 g (1.5 oz). The female then develops a brood patch and incubates the eggs for 28 days or longer before they hatch. The hatchlings
Broad-winged_hawk
Parrot endemic to New Zealand
more subtle, with less yellow and mottling. Nesting females also have a brood patch of bare skin on the belly. The kākāpō's altricial young are first covered
Kākāpō
Small passerine bird in the kinglet family
are piled up in the nest and the female keeps the eggs warm with her brood patch and also by putting her warm legs into the middle of the pile between
Goldcrest
Species of bird
Incubation is performed only by females, and only females develop a brood patch. Marsh wren young can get infected by pathogenic larvae. The Blowfly
Marsh_wren
Species of owl
stored nearby. Females in breeding season often develop a very extensive brood patch which in this species is a fairly enormous, high vascularized featherless
Snowy_owl
Periodical cicadas that appear every 17 years
Brood X (Brood 10), the Great Eastern Brood, is one of 15 broods of periodical cicadas that appear regularly throughout the eastern United States. The
Brood_X
Family of birds
with their large webbed feet, because like their relatives they lack a brood patch. The last young to hatch will usually starve in years with little food
Darter
Genus of monotremes
success in mating. The breeding female develops a temporary abdominal brood patch, in which her egg is incubated and in which the newborn young (or puggle)
Long-beaked_echidna
Passerine bird native to Australia
twelve months due to their exposed locations. The female develops a brood patch—a patch of bare skin on the bird's underparts that reddens and becomes much
Australian_raven
Species of bird
shift. Both parents incubate the egg using a single, centrally located brood patch for the 28 to 34 days to hatching in shifts of 1–38 hours. Eggs can be
Common_murre
Species of bird
only reliably be sexed during the breeding season by the presence of a brood patch in females or a cloacal protuberance in males. These birds are also difficult
Worm-eating_warbler
Military science fiction media franchise
"StarCraft: Brood War review". IGN. Archived from the original on February 6, 2009. Hilliard, Kyle (April 18, 2017). "StarCraft: Brood War Patch Version 1
StarCraft
Extinct subspecies of flightless bird from the Bass Strait island
The female incubated the eggs, but the male apparently developed a brood patch, which indicates it contributed as well. The non-incubating parent also
King_Island_emu
Species of bird
birds in Japan where the female can be identified from the presence of a brood patch. The use of multiple measurements allows discrimination of the sex of
Brown_shrike
Maintenance behaviour of birds
releasing a bacteriocin. Female hoopoes transfer preen oil onto their brood patches and eggs, which results in the transfer of bacteria as well. Preen oil
Preening
American physiologist (born 1951)
Turner, J. S. 1997. On the thermal capacity of a bird’s egg warmed by a brood patch. Physiological Zoology 70: 470-480. Turner, J. S. 1994. Transient thermal
J._Scott_Turner
Species of bird
Males have black heads, wings, backs, and tails, and a bright rose colored patch on their white breast. Males and females exhibit marked sexual dimorphism
Rose-breasted_grosbeak
Species of bird
the incubation of the clutch. Only the female is observed to develop a brood patch. Cave swallows are altricial when they hatch; they are blind and incapable
Cave_swallow
Species of bird
June; laying dates are not known elsewhere. Both male and female have a brood patch, which probably means that both sexes tend the eggs as do eastern whip-poor-wills
Mexican_whip-poor-will
Species of bird
breeding. Records from the Magdalena valley of a female with a swollen brood patch, a male with extended testes and a half-grown young bird, were recorded
Colombian_chachalaca
Species of bee
Bombus affinis, commonly known as the rusty patched bumble bee, is a species of bumblebee endemic to North America. Its historical range in North America
Bombus_affinis
Species of bird
but adults with three young have been observed. The female develops a brood-patch and it is not known if the male incubates. Males have been seen carrying
White-naped_tit
Species of bird
"Foot-Mediated Incubation: Nazca Booby (Sula granti) Feet as Surrogate Brood Patches". Physiological and Biochemical Zoology. 76 (3): 360–366. doi:10.1086/375430
Nazca_booby
Species of bird in the honeyeater family
birds that had a horn-coloured (grey) bill also having well-developed brood patches. Juveniles are similar to females though with an obvious pale yellow
Red-headed_myzomela
Species of bird
the male and female parents, and both the male and the female develop brood patches; however, the female parent contributes significantly more time to incubation
Clark's_nutcracker
Species of bird
during the night. This is most likely because only the females have a brood patch, which helps transfer heat to the eggs when the temperatures drop at
Rock_firefinch
2009 video game
to the review aggregation website Metacritic. Development of the second patch was cancelled on 28 April 2009 one month after release. Creative Assembly
Stormrise
Extinct species of bird
there is evidence that the male also had a small role, as rubbed-bare brooding patches that were smaller than those of females were discovered on some males
Huia
Small passerine bird native to Australia
measuring 16 mm × 13 mm (0.63 in × 0.51 in). Females alone develop brood patches and incubate, although both sexes feed the young. The male will keep
Red-capped_robin
Species of bird
days. Once the egg hatches, the adult keeps the chick warm using its brood patch for the first five days. Once able to thermoregulate for itself, the
Fork-tailed_storm_petrel
Species of bird endemic to Algeria
incubation is carried out by the female alone (the male does not have a brood patch), both parents feed the young. Clutches have three or four fledglings
Algerian_nuthatch
Species of bird
is poorly known and its nest has never been observed. Females with brood patches have been observed in January. Chicks have been seen from November to
Udzungwa_forest_partridge
2017 video game
a remastered edition of the 1998 video game StarCraft and its expansion Brood War. It retains the gameplay of the original StarCraft, but features ultra-high-definition
StarCraft:_Remastered
Species of bird
to become quieter and more inconspicuous. The mother can develop a brooding patch of up to 15 by 5 cm (5.9 by 2.0 in) on her underside. She may turn the
Eurasian_goshawk
Sunny Patch Friends, created by David Kirk. 43 episodes were originally produced over three seasons from 2004 to 2007. "Watch Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends
List of Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends episodes
List_of_Miss_Spider's_Sunny_Patch_Friends_episodes
Species of honey bee
susceptible individuals. Bee brood, the eggs, larvae, or pupae of honey bees, is edible and highly nutritious. Bee brood contains the same amount of protein
Western_honey_bee
2010 real-time strategy video game
Windows and Mac OS X. A sequel to the 1998 video game StarCraft and the Brood War expansion pack, the game is best known as the original installment of
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty
StarCraft_II:_Wings_of_Liberty
spot Nail (of beak) Nares Rhamphotheca Gnathotheca Rhinotheca Tomia Brooding patch Caruncle (bird anatomy) Comb, or Coxcomb Orbital skin, or orbital ring
List of terms used in bird topography
List_of_terms_used_in_bird_topography
Species of Australian bird in the family Recurvirostridae
over 40 °C (104 °F), incubating birds may leave briefly to wet their brood patches to presumably cool the eggs or young. Birds on nests always face into
Banded_stilt
Species of bird
their brood patch. The plumage of an immature Martinique thrasher is uniformly brown, with a brown throat and a greyish belly. The white patch on its
Martinique_thrasher
survival. If parents invest too much parental care into the current brood their future brood will be at risk or cease to exist entirely. An ideal level of parental
Parental_care_in_birds
Subfamily of fishes
transfers her eggs through a small ovipositor into the male brood pouch or onto the special patch of skin on the male's ventral body surface. While the eggs
Pipefish
Extinct species of frog
comparison to the body. The southern gastric-brooding frog was a dull grey to slate coloured frog that had small patches, both darker and lighter than the background
Rheobatrachus_silus
Species of bird
known about the Paramo tapaculo's breeding phenology. Females with brood patches and juveniles have been collected in March, May, and November. The IUCN
Paramo_tapaculo
Species of butterfly
also estivates. The bordered patch has three or four broods per year. Here is a list of host plants used by the bordered patch: Common ragweed, Ambrosia
Chlosyne_lacinia
Species of bird
upperparts with pale azure-blue back and rump, a rufous patch by the bill base, and a rufous ear-patch. It has a green-blue neck stripe, white neck blaze and
Common_kingfisher
Species of butterfly
Chlosyne janais, the crimson patch or janais patch, is a common New World butterfly found from Colombia north through Central America and Mexico to southern
Chlosyne_janais
Species of bird
told apart from the smaller common hawk-cuckoo by the black patch on the chin. They are brood-parasites of babblers and laughing-thrushes. It is found in
Large_hawk-cuckoo
Marvel Comics superhero
Marvel Comics characters. His willingness to use deadly force and his brooding loner nature became defining attributes of the many comic book antiheroes
Wolverine_(character)
Species of bird
year for a finch. This species is generally monogamous and produces one brood each year. Human activity has generally benefited the American goldfinch
American_goldfinch
Australian species of bird
contrast, during the breeding season, fertile females develop oedematous brood patches, which are bare areas on their bellies. Males entering their second
White-winged_fairywren
Species of bird
remiges, forming a pale to whitish wing-patch similar to the one seen in black redstart and Daurian redstart. This patch is also present but less conspicuous
Common_redstart
Species of bird
new nest for another brood while the male continues to feed the young for another 5–10 days. The parents raise two or three broods in a season. Bonhote
European_stonechat
Species of bird
care for them for 14–18 days. They can raise 1-2 broods a year, and older siblings from the first brood may assist in feeding the next. During the breeding
American_bushtit
Species of birds
landed near the fire, but none were seen to take ash. Well-developed brood patches on the birds mist netted near the fires, suggest that the females take
Black_honeyeater
Species of butterfly
with a slight greenish tinge. The orange patch on the forewing is more restricted, it consists of a series of brood streaks in interspaces 3 to 6 and 10,
Hebomoia_glaucippe
Species of butterfly
The large blue butterfly is well known in behavioural ecology as it is a brood parasite of a single species of red ant, Myrmica sabuleti. The discovery
Large_blue
2015 Final Fantasy XIV expansion pack
support dragons. Just prior to Heavensward, Nidhogg awakens, calling his brood to active invasion once again. The player's character, the Warrior of Light
Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward
Final_Fantasy_XIV:_Heavensward
Species of bird
widespread summer migrant to Europe and Asia, and winters in Africa. It is a brood parasite, which means it lays eggs in the nests of other bird species, particularly
Common_cuckoo
Species of bird
metres altitude. It can be distinguished from the Eurasian magpie by the patch of blue skin behind its eye, the narrower white belly, the shorter wings
Maghreb_magpie
Species of bee
muscles. They are able to use this heat to help warm and incubate their brood. This also allows them to help regulate the temperature of the nest generally
Bombus_lapidarius
Species of bird in Brazil
fledging are not known. Both males and females have been found with brood patches, so both parents are thought to incubate eggs and care for nestlings
Moustached_woodcreeper
Species of bird
precocial, but are brooded during early development. They start to fly at approximately three weeks of age. The majority of brood care is provided by
Dunlin
Species of bird
is a medium-sized woodpecker with pied black and white plumage and a red patch on the lower belly. Males and young birds also have red markings on the
Great_spotted_woodpecker
Species of crustacean
larval release and larval settling. The eggs are carried in the female's brood patch and the larvae are released at the most favourable season for their survival
Munida_rugosa
Species of butterfly
the spring. In contrast to the buff-colorred summer brood, the adult butterflies of the spring brood frequently exhibit darker and grayer colors. This phenotypic
Coenonympha_california
Species of bird
grouse broods is a function of time of day, available habitat, and weather. Brood habitats are made up of many complex habitat types. Broods may utilize
Sharp-tailed_grouse
Species of bird
the brood. Females will care for her young but never for the entire period of the fledgling. Female ruddy ducks have been observed acting in brood parasitism
Ruddy_duck
Outcrop of rock in the sea formed by the growth and deposit of stony coral skeletons
(2009). "Reef waters stimulate substratum exploration in planulae from brooding Caribbean corals". Coral Reefs. 28 (2): 549–554. Bibcode:2009CorRe..28
Coral_reef
Species of bird
is disturbed, scarlet tanagers apparently are unable to attempt a second brood, as several other passerines can. In a study of 16 nests in Michigan, 50%
Scarlet_tanager
Species of bird
dead trees. Males and females found to be in breeding condition with brood patches and enlarged gonads in May. Nest is described as typically 10 to 15
Grand_rhabdornis
BROOD PATCH
BROOD PATCH
Boy/Male
English
From the broad brook.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : nickname for a stout or fat person, from Middle English brode.English : from the Old English personal name BrÄda (from brÄd ‘broad’).
Boy/Male
English American
Lives by the stream.
Boy/Male
Tamil
Brook
Boy/Male
Muslim
Blood
Boy/Male
English
From the broad brook.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name for someone who lived by a brook or stream, from Middle Englisk brook, Old English brÅc ‘brook’, ‘stream’.North German and Dutch : topographic name for someone who lived by a water meadow or marsh, from Low German brook, Dutch broek (cognate with German Bruch and Old English brÅc; see 1).Americanized spelling of German and Jewish Bruck or German Bruch.
Boy/Male
American, Australian, British, Chinese, English
A Small Stream; Near the Stream or Brook; From the Stream Near the Hollow; From the Western Stream
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from any of various places called Broom(e) or Brome, from Old English brÅm ‘broom’, ‘gorse’. There are such places in Bedfordshire, County Durham, Norfolk, Shropshire, Suffolk, Worcestershire, and elsewhere.
Boy/Male
Anglo, British, Christian, English
From the Wide Stream; From the Broad Brook
Boy/Male
Australian, French, Greek
Broad; Broad Shouldered
Girl/Female
German
Brook.
Girl/Female
English American
Water; stream.
Male
English
 English surname transferred to unisex forename use, from Old English broc, BROOK means "brook, stream."
Surname or Lastname
English
English : evidently from Old English blÅd ‘blood’, but with what significance is not clear. In Middle English the word was in use as a metonymic occupational term for a physician, i.e. one who lets blood, and also as an affectionate term of address for a blood relative.Welsh : Anglicized form of Welsh ap Llwyd ‘son of Llwyd’ (see Lloyd).
Girl/Female
German
Brook.
Boy/Male
English Swedish
Brook.
Boy/Male
Scottish
Brother.
Boy/Male
English
Brook.
Girl/Female
American, Australian, British, Chinese, English
A Small Fresh Water Stream; Water
BROOD PATCH
BROOD PATCH
Boy/Male
Muslim
Good news, Glad tidings
Boy/Male
Muslim
Generous
Girl/Female
Bengali, German, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Sanskrit, Telugu
Chaste Woman; Name of Lord Mahadev's (Shiva) Wife
Female
English
English pet form of French Lorraine, LORRI means "land of the people of Lothar."
Girl/Female
Indian
Shining, Glittering
Surname or Lastname
English
English : unexplained.
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
Name of Poet
Boy/Male
Muslim
Shower of rain
Girl/Female
Indian, Kannada, Marathi
The Son of Arjun in Mahabharat
Girl/Female
Tamil
To be invoked
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v. i.
To have the mind dwell continuously or moodily on a subject; to think long and anxiously; to be in a state of gloomy, serious thought; -- usually followed by over or on; as, to brood over misfortunes.
a.
Inclined to brood.
v. t.
The young from the same dam, whether produced at the same time or not; young children of the same mother, especially if nearly of the same age; offspring; progeny; as, a woman with a brood of children.
v. t.
To sit over, cover, and cherish; as, a hen broods her chickens.
superl.
Extending far and wide; extensive; vast; as, the broad expanse of ocean.
superl.
Wide; extend in breadth, or from side to side; -- opposed to narrow; as, a broad street, a broad table; an inch broad.
a.
Having a broad brim.
a.
Alt. of Broad-leafed
v. t.
To bear; to endure; to put up with; to tolerate; as, young men can not brook restraint.
n.
An implement for sweeping floors, etc., commonly made of the panicles or tops of broom corn, bound together or attached to a long wooden handle; -- so called because originally made of the twigs of the broom.
v. t.
To stain, smear or wet, with blood.
superl.
Strongly marked; as, a broad Scotch accent.
a.
Having broad, or relatively broad, leaves.
a.
Kept for breeding from; as, a brood mare; brood stock; having young; as, a brood sow.
v. t.
The young birds hatched at one time; a hatch; as, a brood of chickens.
n.
The broad part of anything; as, the broad of an oar.
n.
The shedding of blood; the taking of life, murder; manslaughter; destruction.
v. t.
To heat the blood of; to exasperate.
superl.
Cross; coarse; indelicate; as, a broad compliment; a broad joke; broad humor.
superl.
Plain; evident; as, a broad hint.