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The nests are piles of sticks around 27 inches in diameter and 6-17 inches high with a cup-shaped depression in the middle that is 8 inches across and 4 inches deep.
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In the other hemisphere it is growing colder and nymphs, those who stayed alive through the summer, are being brought into nests for quickening and more growing ''.
The islands ' many caves, such as those at Chalis Ek are nesting grounds for the Edible-nest Swiftlet, whose nests are prized in China for bird's nest soup.
In a great majority of known nests, two eggs are laid ( rarely 1 or 3 ).
There are good grounds for the association between hares ( later termed Easter bunnies ) and eggs, through folklore confusion between hares ' forms ( where they raise their young ) and plovers ' nests.
The structure of the nests themselves are subject to the forces of natural selection.
Trace fossils are the remains of trackways, burrows, bioerosion, eggs and eggshells, nests, droppings and other types of impressions.
The nests are basket-shaped and usually built in trees, more rarely in bushes, between rocks or on similar substrate.
Habits intermediate between those of the herbivorous and parasitoid forms are shown in some hymenopterans, which inhabit the galls or nests of other insects, stealing their food, and eventually killing and eating the occupant.
Regarding the atmosphere of the town, he states: " Harwich is a town of hurry and business, not much of gaiety and pleasure ; yet the inhabitants seem warm in their nests and some of them are very wealthy ".
It is a cavity nester, preferring holes in cliffs, trees or buildings ; in built-up areas, Common Kestrels will often nest on buildings, and generally they often reuse the old nests of corvids if are available.
About twenty eggs are deposited in abandoned megapode nests or in a self-dug nesting hole.
In contrast to the dappled chicks of other gull species, kittiwake chicks are downy and white since they are under relatively little threat of predation, as the nests are on extremely steep cliffs.
Orangutans are among the most intelligent primates and use a variety of sophisticated tools, also constructing elaborate sleeping nests each night from branches and foliage.
Turtles live on the islands, and seabirds have left nests and guano deposits, but there are no permanent human residents except military personnel and fishermen.
Rarer species are the Black-throated diver and the Turnstone ( Arenaria interpres ), with hardly a dozen nests around Vänern ; and the Caspian tern with hardly a dozen specimens.
Another reason for dropping numbers are the introduction of non-native species, such as the " parasitic " cowbird, which steals the nests of other birds to use as its own.
Ducks ' nests are raided by land-based predators, and brooding females may be caught unaware on the nest by mammals, such as foxes, or large birds, such as hawks or eagles.
They are nocturnal, meaning they sleep in their nests during the day and are active at night.
Nests are dug into rotting wood or termite nests, with one species, the Violaceous Trogon, nesting in wasp nests.
The nests of trogons are thought to usually be unlined.
nests and piles
American marten females use a variety of structures for natal and maternal denning, including the branches, cavities or broken tops of live trees, snags, stumps, logs, woody debris piles, witch's brooms, rock piles, and red squirrel ( Tamiasciurus hudsonicus ) nests or middens.
nests and sticks
The nests were loosely constructed of small sticks and twigs and were about a foot in diameter.
Their nests are typically spherical and made of shredded material, including sticks, leaves, other vegetation, and cloth.
Doves and pigeons build relatively flimsy nests from sticks and other debris, which may be placed in trees, on ledges or on the ground, depending on species.
Some chimpanzees in Tanzania have learned to fish termites out of their nests using sticks.
The bulky nests are composed of roots, sticks and plant stems lined with grass, fine twiglets or hair, and may be constructed on ledges, in a cave or similar fissure in a cliff face, or in an abandoned building.
The nests are constructed of small branches and sticks with a bowl inside and lined with leaves, and are sited in various trees, often mangroves.
Depending on the species and habitat, the nests may consist of unlined scrapes in the ground, or of flimsy collections of sticks on trees or floating vegetation.
Western Jackdaws are monogamous and build simple nests of sticks in cavities in trees, cliffs, or buildings.
Those placed in trees are rather flimsy and made of reeds, grasses, straw, and sticks ; if on the ground, nests consist of a shallow scrape lined with feathers and a rim of soil built above the ground.
The nests of all finfoots are untidy bowls of sticks, twigs, and reeds suspended in vegetation above water.
The Sickle-billed Vanga nests in groups and builds a large nest of sticks.
Their flat, shallow nests are made of sticks and lined with fine twigs and rushes.
The Little Egret nests in colonies, often with other wading birds, usually on platforms of sticks in trees or shrubs or in a reedbed or bamboo grove.
The female constructs bulky nests from sticks, and both parents help incubate the eggs and raise the young thereafter.
Squirrel nests are called dreys and can be seen in trees, built from sticks and leaves wrapped with long strands of grass.
It nests in colonies, often with other herons, usually on platforms of sticks in trees or shrubs.
It nests in colonies, often with other herons, usually on platforms of sticks in trees or shrubs.
It nests in colonies, often with other herons, usually on platforms of sticks in trees or shrubs.
It often nests in colonies with other herons, usually on platforms of sticks in trees or shrubs.
The nests are bulky and untidy, wide and deep, often made of grasses, sticks and hay, spotted with much animal matter.
The nests are often compact, made of sticks, plant roots, and stems, and are often lined with leaves, moss, bark and plant roots.
They nest in colonies on platforms of sticks in trees over water, which may gather more than 100 nests ( Fleck 2003 ).
Several megapode species construct enormous mound nests made of soil, branches, sticks, twigs and leaves, and lay their eggs within the rotting mass.
* Nest: Roadrunners ' nests are often on a platform nest composed of sticks ( nests may sometimes contain leaves, snakeskins, or dung ).
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