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Nests are used for |
Mate attraction and insulation from adverse weather and temperature |
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Insulation in nests |
Lien then with materials |
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Deter ectoparasites with nests |
European starlings incorporate red dead nettle a pungent plant that inhibits bacterial growth and blood suckling mites |
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Nest placement in cavities and the architecture can promote |
Insulation. |
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Nests can be cryptic to... |
Protect against predators Parents sneak back to the nest and use indirect routes. Females are cryptic ally colored to blend in while incubating |
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Testing aebra finch nest material choice based on cage colour |
Nest material would match to camouflage it |
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Nests are good because they are inaccessible which... |
Means they are built off the ground away from terrestrial predators in cliffs, trees or caves |
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Some nests are imoregnabke meaning.. |
They're enclosed cavities or penile nests that hang |
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Nests are used simply as a place to leave.. |
Chicks |
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Types of nest |
Cup Doned Pensike Adherant Platform Cavity Burrows Scrape |
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Nest examples |
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Birds and their nest tyoe |
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Adherant nests of barn swallows |
Make their nests out of mud and stick them to ledges outside or inside buildings plastered wth bits of straw and line dinside with grass and feathers. Half a teacup in size, up to 20 feet from the ground |
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Western grebe nest |
Floating platform |
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Wilson plver nest |
Sandy scrape |
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Cinnamon teal nest |
Down kined |
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Cliff swallow nests |
Mud |
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Gila woodpecker nests |
Hole nest |
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Cactus wren nest |
Straw |
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Great blue Heron nest |
Stick nest |
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Rufous throated thornbird nest |
Stick nest |
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Hummingbird nest |
Cup nest |
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Warbking vireo nest |
Suspended cup nest |
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Cassins malimbe nest |
Woven nest |
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Crested oropendolas |
Suspended nest |
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Bird abuse these materials to build their nests |
Twigs, leaves, pebbles, mud, hair, fur, feathers, yarn, string, floss Even fungus fibers like the horse hair fungus in bicknells thrush nests |
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Long Tailed tit lines nest with |
Feathers of another species |
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Curry and mint in nests of Corsican chicks |
Keep bugs away |
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Evidence of instinctive nest building |
1. Structure and composition of nests exhibit little intraspecific variation 2. Birds raised in isolation tend to build species specific nests |
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Birds learn nest building by experience as shown in... |
Quality of nests of young birds VS older |
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Cup nest building can take anywhere Fromm.. |
1 to 11 days |
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Nest cavities of Woodpeckers time taken can be |
7 to 28 days, 21 to 36days for pleated woodpecker |
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3 categories of passerines nests |
Cavity Open cup And dome |
