Nest
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A nest is a structure built by certain animals to hold their eggs or young. Although nests are most closely associated with birds, members of all classes of vertebrates and some invertebrates construc
The elaborate bird nest of a baya weaver
A night heron building a nest
Swans with nest and eggs at Lake Constance
A dusky woodswallow parent feeding chicks in a nest at Mortimer Bay, Tasmania, Australia.
Bird nest
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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 iself—such as the grassy cup nest
Nest
…The elaborate bird nest of a baya weaver A night heron building a nest Swans with nest and eggs at Lake Constance A dusky woodswallow parent feeding chicks in a nest at Mortimer…
Deep cup nest of the great reed-warbler
Some nest linings, such as the shell fragments in this Charadrius plover scrape, may help to prevent the eggs from sinking into muddy or sandy soil.
Other nest linings, like the lichen in this American golden-plover scrape, may provide some level of insulation for the eggs, or may help to camouflage them.
The huge mound nest of the malleefowl acts like a compost heap, warming and incubating the eggs as it rots around them.