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Deep cup nest of the great reed-warbler. A bird nest is the spot in which a bird lays and incubates its eggs and raises its young. Although the term popularly refers to a specific structure made by the bird itself—such as the grassy cup nest of the American robin or Eurasian blackbird, or the elaborately woven hanging nest of the Montezuma oropendola or the village weaver—that is too ...
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Two birds studied in the Parque Nacional de La Macarena of Colombia were free of blood parasites. [19] Burrowing owls often nest and roost in the burrows made by ground squirrels, a strategy also used by rattlesnakes. [18] When threatened, the owl retreats to the burrow and produces rattling and hissing sounds similar to those of a rattlesnake.
A nest is a structure built for certain animals to hold eggs or young. Although nests are most closely associated with birds, members of all classes of vertebrates and some invertebrates construct nests. They may be composed of organic material such as twigs, grass, and leaves, or may be a simple depression in the ground, or a hole in a rock ...
The burrowing parrot has a grey bill and yellow-white iris with pink legs. [8] Immature birds look like adults but with a horn coloured upper mandible patch and a pale grey iris. [2] [8] While both sexes look visually similar to the human eye, the burrowing parrot is sexually dichromatic.
A so-called "cathedral" mound produced by a termite colony. Structures built by non-human animals, often called animal architecture, [1] are common in many species. Examples of animal structures include termite mounds, ant hills, wasp and beehives, burrow complexes, beaver dams, elaborate nests of birds, and webs of spiders.
Dried swiftlet nests ready for cooking A bowl of bird's nest soup. The best-known use of edible bird's nest is bird's nest soup, a delicacy in Chinese cuisine. [2] When dissolved in water, the bird's nests have a flavored gelatinous texture utilized in soup or sweet soup ().
Sociable weaver nests form a habitat that is occupied by animals of many different taxa, including several other bird species, which use the nest in different ways, such as for breeding (as with the paradise finch and rosy-faced lovebird), roosting (as with the familiar chat and ashy tit), or as a platform for the nests of larger birds (such as ...