Just a couple of young robins, big enough to leave the nest but not quite ready yet to “go it alone” in the wide world, provide the subject for the front cover illustration of this week’s Science News Letter. They hang on to their twig with all the grip there is in their small toes—for there may be a cat on the ground.
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