Incubating [verb]

When she finally got broody she was given seventeen eggs and allowed to settle down to the task of incubating Christmas dinners.

So small is the nursery that sometimes the incubating bird looks as though it were sitting across a branch.

He is of opinion that the incubating birds treat the eggs thus in order to prevent their getting sun-baked.

Another bird which is now incubating eggs on the ground is the did-he-do-it or red-wattled lapwing (Sarcogrammus indicus).

The legs of the sitting sarus crane are folded under it, as are those of incubating flamingos and other long-legged birds.

If it is intended to employ an incubating temperature of 30°C., 10 per cent.

The eggs are laid as closely as possible on the ledges where the incubating birds sit upright, in long rows like an army on guard.

Then I remembered it was late in the summer, and she certainly could not be incubating.

I am not quite satisfied about the incubating males; there is so little difference in conspicuousness between the sexes.

Ugly, sombre facts have been unearthed in the no distant past, while others are incubating for an unsavory hatching.