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It is a widespread error which says that young birds who have reached a sufficient age are pushed out of the nest by the mother so that they may learn to fly of their own accord and live their own independent lives. This happens only in the case of the eagle and the swallow. Almost all other birds, when they are fully fledged, get out of the nest by their own power, persuaded partly by hunger because the food is no longer brought to them and partly by the persuasive inducements of the mother's call from a nearby point.

-- Notebooks Category 13: Human Experience > Chapter 2 : Living in The World > # 647