#Wildlife experts issue dire warning after disturbing discovery of plastic #wire in #birdnests: 'A plague upon the land'
#environment
https://www.thecooldown.com/outdoors/bird-nest-plastic-pollution-land/

Magpies and Crows Are Using "Anti-Bird Spikes" to Make Their Nests

https://www.audubon.org/magazine/apparently-magpies-and-crows-are-using-anti-bird-spikes-make-their-nests

#HackerNews #Magpies #Crows #BirdNests #UrbanWildlife #AntiBirdSpikes

@PhoenixSerenity

I'm going to have to retract those nest ID sites I sent... all too general or not useful.

There does exist (I think) a birding book with species specific info on nests.

I collected these four nests from around my house one autumn. You can see how much variation there is...

#Birds #Birdnests #Nests

@PhoenixSerenity

Cool. It is possible to narrow it down. Too many refs, so I'm including the whole query...

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ftsa&q=identifing+birds+by+their+nest+shapes+and+materials

Never heard of Medlar before, very interesting...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mespilus_germanica

Thanks!

#Birds #BirdNests #Medlar

#Togetherness ❣

🌳🍃🍃🍂🍂🍂🏠🐤🐥🐦❄🌬

#birdnests #BirdFamily #BirdFamilyLife #StrengthInNumbers #Igotyourback

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Not so good pics using my phone/hard to see (Sorry!) but Very interesting that there are (8) bird nests in such Close proximity of one another in these trees ~ Wonder if it's a Family of birds, sticking close together as Autumn ebbs down & Winter's right around the corner?? Page 2 has the last pic & there are 3 nests just a branch or 2 apart from one another. Now that's what I call #Togetherness ❣

🌳🍃🍃🍂🍂🍂🏠🐤🐥🐦❄🌬

#birdnests #BirdFamily #BirdFamilyLife #StrengthInNumbers #Igotyourback

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Tiny life growing in my parents' window. A Bulbul bird (native to India) has built a nest and is raising her baby birds in my mother's Hibiscus 🌺 🐣❤️
#nature #naturelovers #hibiscus #plant #bulbul #birds #birdsofmastodon #birdnests #birdsofIndia

Im Brutkasten, den ich im Winter mit den Kids gebaut habe, wohnt jetzt ein fleissiges Blaumeisen-Paar. 🐦🐦
#fruhling #birds #birdnests

Made these #birdnests for my little buddies next door…. Really……..
They’re for the kids 🤷‍♀️😂 🐣

#Chesapeakebay #neighbors #spring

Magpie nest in Blackthorn.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bird_Nest_in_Blackthorn_(Prunus_spinosa)_-_B%C3%A6rum,_Norway_2021-05-16_(01).jpg

#Nest #Magpie #Blackthorn #BirdsOfMastodon #ArtWithOpenSource #Darktable #CCBYSA #Magpies #Nests #BirdNests #Birds #Bird #Plant #Plants #Flowers #BloomScrolling #Florespondence #Nature #NaturePhotography #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Photography

Giant artificial ‘bird nests’ are being built in the ocean — and they could solve a strange-but-critical issue https://flip.it/egVgyo #BirdNests #Birds #ArtificialBirdNests

#Rebellious #birds make #nests out of anti-bird pins https://phys.org/news/2023-07-rebellious-birds-anti-bird-pins.html

#BirdNests made from anti-bird spikes https://www.hetnatuurhistorisch.nl/fileadmin/user_upload/documents-nmr/Publicaties/Deinsea/Deinsea_21/Deinsea_21_17_25_2023_Hiemstra_et_al.pdf

"An impregnable fortress... because the #magpies appear to be using the pins exactly the same way we do: to keep other birds away from their nest."

The birds were busy building yesterday providing much distraction while my car wouldn't start... while a stranger raised me up on a trolley jack, searched for the starter motor (by the drive shaft 😖) and gave it a few whacks to get me started 😁

Edit: I shouldn't type in the sun coz I can't see the letters 🙈

#bird #birds #BirdNests

Starling #birds #birdsofmastodon #birdphotography #birdnests #birdwatching #nature #naturephotography #perthshire #Scotland

I walked through a cloud forest today and this hummingbird nest was pointed out to me. Two days ago, it had babies in it, which means that somewhere there is a happy snake with a full belly. #BirdNest #BirdNests #CloudForest #RainForest #hummingbird #CircleOfLife

"At workshops in more than 3,500 schools across India, Khatri has taught children and adults how to create #BirdNests using materials like twigs, grass, and leaves. His efforts have resulted in more than 100,000 nests being built, with a remarkable success rate of #birds returning to them."

‘We can’t take their homes’: how the ‘Nest Man of #India’ is saving #sparrows | #UrbanConservation
#Cities #Wildlife

| The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/apr/03/how-the-nest-man-of-india-is-saving-sparrows-rakesh-khatri?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1680498255

Since "Tea Cosy" Mother Quail was such a success with visitors to this page, I thought you might like to see a small video of a quail who gained a bit of fame by nesting under a lawnmower a couple of years ago in Arizona. In it, you will see her and her four peeping chicks. 🤎 🤍 🖤

The video was originally published by the Arizona Game & Fish Department, and the lawnmower belonged to Jason and Kimberly Garde. When the couple discovered the nest, they decided that the bird had the right of way; that there was no question the lawnmower would stay put and unused so the quail could safely hatch out her eggs and the chicks could fledge.

#Birds #BirdVideos #BirdNests

Morning dog-walk. Gray skies and #birdnests in the scrub oaks. #Grateful 💞