Bible Verses About Birds: Mosaic law protected the mother from being taken with the young

"If, as you are walking along, you happen to see a bird's nest in a tree or on the ground with chicks or eggs, and the mother bird is sitting on the chicks or the eggs, you are not to take the mother with the chicks.

You must let the mother go, but you may take the chicks for yourself; so that things will go well with you, and you will prolong your life.