The modern sense of the term first appears sometime around the 12th century ; its popularity spread in the medieval period along with the terms isle, ylle, inis, eilean, oileán There is some confusion on what the term crannog originally referred to, the structure atop the island or the island itself The additional meanings of crannog can be variously related as " structure / piece of wood ; wooden pin ; crow's nest ; pulpit ; driver's box on a coach and vessel / box / chest " for crannóg.

It has a 500 to 1000 year life-cycle, near the end of which it builds itself a nest of twigs that then ignites ; both nest and bird burn fiercely and are reduced to ashes, from which a new, young phoenix or phoenix egg arises, reborn anew to live again.

And when the time of its dissolution draws near that it must die, it builds itself a nest of frankincense, and myrrh, and other spices, into which, when the time is fulfilled, it enters and dies.

The nest itself uses high-voltage shielded cables to release lightning current into the ground.

When approached by a predator of either its nest or itself, divers sometimes attack the predator by rushing at it and attempting to impale it through the abdomen or the back of the head or neck.

The first two species may even locate their nest directly beneath a magpie nest, while the diminutive Striated Pardalote ( Pardalotus striatus ) has been known to make a burrow for breeding into the base of the magpie nest itself.

The nest itself is a simple scrape in the ground, in which the bird typically lays three or four eggs.

Young are fed liquefied and regurgitated insects directly by the male or female parent and are eventually weaned to small mammals and reptile fragments regurgitated onto the nest itself.

The nest itself is about across.

A mother bird deceives when it pretends to have a broken wing to divert the attention of a perceived predator — including unwitting humans — from the eggs in its nest to itself, most notably the killdeer.

Parent protecting small chicks by performing a distraction display to draw attention to itself away from the nest

The nest itself is merely a shallow depression or bowl in the ground, fringed by some stones and blades of grass.

The nest itself was a large saucer-shaped structure, up to 350 mm in diameter and 70 mm deep, with thick walls of dry grass, leaves and " withered stems of herbaceous plants ".

The nest itself is constructed of leaves, coarse grasses, stems, and strips of bark, lined with soft grass or deer hair and is bound with spider web.

But no matter how obvious it is that the child is guilty, Trudy always finds in favor of them ( even defending them by making up reasons as to why the child did the incident ) and delivers ridiculous sentences to the adults ( some of them occurring if the defendant doesn't have the fine money ) such as trapping a defendant in a rocket and sending him to Venus, having the defendant being chased by an unpredictable man in a gorilla suit, having the defendant be thrown into a leopard cage, having the defendants participate in a cage match with two professional wrestlers, crushing the defendant with a boulder, unleashing two hungry leprechauns to chew on the defendants, placing a nest of deranged woodpeckers on the defendant's head, having a defendant handcuffed to a sweaty opera singer, having the defendant trapped in a box with two contagious sick people, placing a defendant in a bathtub filled of cream and mushroom soup, having an old person doing a piggyback ride on the defendant, having the defendants play Dodgeball with three Marines, having the defendant being sold to the highest bidder in the courtroom, giving the defendant a little shot itself, opening a trap door beneath the defendants, confiscating the defendant's clothes, having the Bailiff spinnthe defendant until the defendant is uncomfortable, and putting an angry chipmunk in the defendant's pants.

The nest itself is typically a bulky cup, close to the trunk of a conifer.

It is imperative that nests are kept as far away from predators as possible, and unusual locations for them are shown, such as: behind the water curtain of Iguazu Falls in South America ( as chosen by swifts ), cliffs on Argentina's coast favoured by parrots, an ants ' nest occupied by a woodpecker, and a tree hole inside which a female hornbill seals itself.

The bird may also use tactics such as fiercely protecting a non-existent nest, or a distraction display of hopping on a single leg, to attract a potential predator's attention to itself and away from its real nest or its chicks after they have commenced foraging.

The nest itself is usually built in a tall tree though this species may well use tree holes also as a possible nesting option although little further information is as yet recorded for this species and its breeding habits.

The nest is often built on the base of large pine cones and somewhat resembles a pine cone itself.

Important features of natural language syntax such as agreement and reference are not part of the context-free grammar, but the basic recursive structure of sentences, the way in which clauses nest inside other clauses, and the way in which lists of adjectives and adverbs are swallowed by nouns and verbs, is described exactly.

There is an emergent homeostasis or homeorhesis in the structure of the nest that regulates, maintains and defends the physiology of the entire colony.

The massive structure of information available in a wiki, or an open source software project such as the FreeBSD kernel could be compared to a termite nest ; one initial user leaves a seed of an idea ( a mudball ) which attracts other users who then build upon and modify this initial concept, eventually constructing an elaborate structure of connected thoughts.

In many hummingbird species, spider silk is used to bind the nest material together and secure the structure to its support.

The American Dipper's nest is a globe-shaped structure with a side entrance, close to water, on a rock ledge, river bank, behind a waterfall or under a bridge.

After leaving the nest, the workers form a swarm that hangs from a branch or overhanging structure.

The nest is a bowl-shaped structure made of sticks and lined with softer material such as grass and bark.

The nest is a deep cup-shaped structure made of grasses held together with mud or sometimes manure in a tree fork up to 10 metres above the ground.

The nest is a small, neat structure often placed in bamboo clumps, small trees or bushes at the edge of a clearing.

The structure of the nest

The nest is a cup like structure of dried leaves, twigs and plant fibres set into dried mud.

The precious nest is well camouflaged, as the spots of the eggs disguise them as stones, and the simple structure of the nest resembles its surroundings.

However, the members of the subfamily Callichthyinae are known for building and guarding floating foam bubble nests ; Hoplosternum littorale is reported to have the most complex nest structure.

By 1978 the focus and headquarters shifted to California with the Zells and the nine-circle nest structure was revamped.

Anodea Judith assumed presidency until 1991, and the structure of the organization was revamped with plans for more nest meetings, training courses, new rituals, and publications.

The Goldcrest's nest is a well-insulated cup-shaped structure built in three layers.

Nests are shallow and small solaria often feature in nest structure to concentrate solar heat onto the ants ' brood.

No nest structure is built, which is typical for falcons.

The Eurasian Crag Martin builds a nest adherent to the rock under a cliff overhang or increasingly onto a man-made structure.

`` We found some owls had built a nest in the chimney, milord, but I promise you you'll never have trouble of that sort again ''.

At the time Alex arrived he was engaged in some sort of intimate communication with the hen, who had settled herself on the nest most peacefully after the occurrences of the morning.

some show a definite liking for making their nest in moss.

A partial solution to this is some programs ' ability to view the composite-order of elements ( such as images, effects, or other attributes ) with a visual diagram called a flowchart to nest compositions, or " comps ," directly into other compositions, thereby adding complexity to the render-order by first compositing layers in the beginning composition, then combining that resultant image with the layered images from the proceeding composition, and so on.

The failure of these systems can have catastrophic consequences, as in the case of Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 2553, Birgenair Flight 301 ( investigators suspected that some kind of insect could have created a nest inside the pitot tube: the prime suspect is a species called the black and yellow mud dauber wasp ), Northwest Airlines Flight 6231, AeroPeru Flight 603 ( blocked static port ), and of one X-31.

* Nest construction: In some species, males build nests that females subject to rigorous inspection, choosing the male that makes ​​ the most attractive nest.

If the host removes the cuckoo's eggs, some cuckoos will return and attack the nest to compel host birds to remain subject to this parasitism.

Within the colonies pairs defend usually small territories ( the giant petrels and some albatrosses can have very large territories ) which is either the small area around the nest or a burrow.

Most temperate and polar species nest over the spring-summer, although some albatrosses and procellariids nest over the winter.

In the tropics, some species can be found breeding throughout the year, but most nest in discreet periods.

Some species, such as the Uria guillemots, nest in large colonies on cliff edges ; others, like the Cepphus guillemots, breed in small groups on rocky coasts ; and the puffins, auklets and some murrelets nest in burrows.

Robins may choose a wide variety of sites for building a nest, in fact anything which can offer some form of depression or hole may be considered.

After two to three months out of the nest, the juvenile bird grows some orange feathers under its chin and over a similar period this patch gradually extends to complete the adult appearance.

Numerous wasps, especially Polistinae and Vespinae, construct hexagonal prism-packed combs made of paper instead of wax ; and in some species ( such as Brachygastra mellifica ), honey is stored in the nest, thus technically forming a paper honeycomb.

The male will utilize a decoy system and place some eggs outside the nest and sacrifice these to predators, so that they won't attempt to get inside the nest.

This has caused some controversy because the land is a protected seascape under IUCAN and the necessity to use heavy equipment within the park as well as its transportation across beaches that are nesting areas for not only sea turtles but many birds, including the piping plover, least tern, and other animals that may nest within the park.

The cavities are usually natural, but some species may nest in the abandoned nests of woodpeckers and barbets.

Most species of birds build some sort of nest, though some lay their eggs directly onto rock ledges or bare soil without first modifying the area.

Some birds will build nests in trees, some ( such as vultures, eagles, and many seabirds like Kittiwakes ) will build them on rocky ledges, and others nest on the ground or in burrows.