Size. Your bird’s nest should be large enough for it to rest without feeling cramped. On the other hand, if it’s much larger than your pet, it may feel vulnerable.

Birds make nests over front doors, on porches and patios, even on cars. If you can’t leave it alone entirely, here’s how to keep one safe.

A variety of birds build cup nests, which are often held steady by a base of twigs, bark shreds, grasses and mosses. They’re also held together by a layer of mud, spiderwebs, fur and hair.

Puzzlingly, many birds add human-made material to their nests with no obvious function – now there is evidence that these home improvements might ward off predators. Close. Advertisement.

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Nest-building isn't just instinct. Birds can learn from others, letting groups within one species develop their own distinctive nest-building traditions. Accessibility links.

Birds in colder environments build bigger, thicker, more insulating nests than their warm-weather counterparts. The new study introduces a third possible variable: avian tradition.

His discovery of successive layers of plastic in birds’ nests, from different periods, has now been published in the scientific journal Ecology. “You flip through these nests like through pages of a ...

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