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  2. Ploceidae - Wikipedia

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    Most species weave nests that have narrow entrances, facing downward. Many weaver species are gregarious and breed colonially. [2] The birds build their nests together for protection, often several to a branch. Usually the male birds weave the nests and use them as a form of display to lure prospective females.

  3. Bird nest - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  4. Baya weaver - Wikipedia

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    A male bird is known to make up to 500 trips to complete a nest. The birds use their strong beaks to strip and collect the strands, and to weave and knot them while building their nests. The nests are often built hanging over water [20] from palm trees [21] and often suspended from thorny Acacias and in some cases from telephone wires.

  5. Structures built by animals - Wikipedia

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    The leaves of grasses and palms being elongate and parallel-veined are very commonly used for building. These, along with palm fibers and horse-hair fern are used to build hanging baskets. Wooden twigs form the greater proportion of materials used in the nests of large birds. Plants and trees not only provide resources but also sites.

  6. Sociable weaver - Wikipedia

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    Sociable weavers construct permanent nests on trees and other tall objects. These nests are amongst the largest built by any bird, and are large enough to house over 100 pairs of birds, [10] containing several generations at a time. The nests are highly structured and provide birds with a more advantageous temperature relative to the outside.

  7. Nest - Wikipedia

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    Other birds often built their own nests on top of Weaver nest sites. [4] Some birds build nests in trees, some (such as eagles, vultures, and many seabirds) will build them on rocky ledges, and others nest on the ground or in burrows. [3] Each species has a characteristic nest style, but few are particular about where they build their nests.

  8. Montezuma oropendola - Wikipedia

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    Hanging nests in farmland near Quesada, Costa Rica On a British Honduras stamp. The Montezuma oropendola inhabits forest canopy, edges and old plantations. It is a colonial breeder and only the females build hanging woven nest of fibres and vines, 60–180 cm (24–71 in) long, in a tree that is up to 30 meters high. Each colony has a dominant ...

  9. American bushtit - Wikipedia

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    The sharp-shinned hawk and other birds prey upon American bushtits. [4] Bushtits live in flocks of 10 to 40 birds and family members sleep together in their large, hanging nest during breeding season. Once the offspring develop wings that are developed enough to fly, they leave the nest and sleep on branches.

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