“If you come across a bird’s nest in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs and the mother sitting on the young or on the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young. You shall let the mother go *You shall surely send away the mother* , but the young you may take for yourself, that it may go well with you, and that you may live long."
*I went with the quick google quote, but later realized it missed the important bit: sending the mother away first so she doesn't witness her offspring being taken.