BioConcepts

altricialNesthocker (ger.)

• Of a young bird or (in later use also) other animal: confined to the nest, burrow, etc., until sufficiently developed to live without parental care. Also: (of a species) bearing young of this kind; nidicolous. (OED 2012)
  category parental care see also precocial

  1816

  Blinde, der Aetzung bedürftige Vögel - Nesthocker

  Oken, L. (1816). Okens Lehrbuch der Naturgeschichte, vol. 3 Zoologie, Abt. 2: 371; cf. id. (1837). Allgemeine Naturgeschichte für alle Stände, Thierreich, vol. 4, Abt. 1: 13.

  1836

  Expositio Ordinum Avium. Sectio Prior. (Aves Altrices). [...] Alunt pullolos. Aetzbare Vögel Oken.

  Sundevall, C.J. (1836). Ornithologiskt System. Kungl. Svenska Vetenskapsakademien Handlingar 1835, 43-130: 64.

  1869

  Altricial and præcocial orders must be so drawn that, while they are mutually representative to a degree, as wholes, they do not include, each in itself, modified representations of each other.

  Coues, E. (1869). On the classification of water birds. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 21, 193-218: 194.

  1872

  Pigeons are altricial, and monogamous

  Coues, E. (1872). Key to North American Birds: 224.

  1982

  altricial Used of offspring or of species that show a marked delay in the attainment of independent

  self-maintenance; altrices; cf. precocial.

  Lincoln, R.J., Boxshall, G.A. & Clark, P.F. (1982). A Dictionary of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics: 12.