They may also be put in a basket filled with real or artificial straw to resemble a bird's nest.

They have been known to nest in small numbers as far south as the northern Channel Islands, off southern California.

They live in groups of up to eight adults, plus the current season's young, all sharing a nest and defending their territory, an example of helping at the nest.

They nest in holes dug into trees or termite nests, laying 2-4 white or pastel-coloured eggs.

They lay one or two eggs, and both parents care for the young, which leave the nest after 7 to 28 days.

They state that these were originally the seven days each year ( either side of the shortest day of the year ) during which Alcyone ( as a kingfisher ) laid her eggs and made her nest on the beach and during which her father Aeolus, god of the winds, restrained the winds and calmed the waves so she could do so in safety.

They were, he says, his nidus senectutis, the ' nest of his old age ', and there he spent the rest of his days, composing poetry and writing to many eminent contemporaries, several of whom had been his pupils.

They are also very aggressive to other penguins that steal stones from their nest.

They can leave the nest within a day or two, have body feathers within four or five weeks, are fully feathered after three months, and are able to fly about two weeks after that.

Norman revealed that " I recorded " This Land Is Your Land " and " They Laid Jesus Christ in His Grave " with a guitar I borrowed that was Woody Guthrie's ; found broken in a field with a bird nest inside.

They nest in deep burrows and use a highly developed sense of smell to find small insects and grubs in the soil.

They select a stick and modify it to fit down an opening in a termite nest, insert it, wiggle it around and withdraw it, eating the termites that have attacked the stick and stuck to it.

They nest in mangrove or other trees and feed on aquatic life.

They nest in trees, laying several eggs in a neat cup-shaped nest lined with grass.

They nest in bushes or similar.

They nest in bushes or similar.

They are usually silent but make hissing and roaring sounds at the nest or when jostling for food.

They do not nest in cohesive colonies as do many smaller vultures, with one tree or area usually only having 1 to 2 nests in it, though rarely up to 10 nests have been recorded in one area.

They nest mainly on rocky cliffs, sometimes adopting ledges on tall buildings in cities and on large trees.

They often nest in rock crevices or disused burrows.

They prefer to nest on the edge of woodland clearings.

They nest in natural tree holes, so dead trees or those with dead limbs are beneficial to the species ; nestboxes are sometimes used.

They also help defend the nest.

They crawled through the north fence and came on toward him, and now he saw that both were young, not more than nineteen or twenty.

They were tethered, army style, on stable lines.

They could hear the pony's feet on the dry leaves for a while, then the sound faded out.

They, and the two large fans which I could dimly see as daylight filtered through their vents, down at the far end of the hall, could be turned on by a master switch situated inside the office.

They reached the guard house without alerting the men on the walls above, and Powers slipped through the door.

They squatted on their heels in the deep mud and Dill found a cigar in his breast pocket, passing it over silently.

They got tin cups of coffee from the big pot on the coosie's fire, rolled and lighted brown-paper cigarettes, lounged about.

They were sitting on their heels, rider-fashion, over by the still empty calf wagon.

They reined in before the town marshal's office, a box-sized building on Main Street.

They moved in on him, crowded him from all sides.

They returned to the street, mounted their horses, rode through the rain to the big house on Houston Street.

They tracked mud on the oaken floor, on the carpet.

They were headed straight for each other on a collision course.

`` They were supposed to meet Thor at nine PM for a conference concerning the ad campaign for their soap, a new angle based on this SX-21 stuff ''.

They discussed the way people never tell each other the things on their minds.

They watched the tree until it twisted sharply on a bend.

They could come on him now without difficulty.

They are preoccupied riding herd on control panels, switches, flashing colored lights on pale green or gray consoles that look like business machines.

They inhabit a secret world centered on `` go codes '' and `` gold phones ''.

They squatted on their heels with their heads bent far forward, their eyes only a few inches from the ground.

They differed in the balance they believed essential to the sovereignty of the citizen -- but the supreme sacrifice each made served to maintain a still more fundamental truth: That individual life, liberty and happiness depend on a right balance between the two -- and on the limitation of sovereignty, in all its aspects, which this involves.

They arise in situations in which one believes that what happens depends not only on the external world, but also on the precise pattern of behavior of the individual or group.