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Every bird needs a safe and secure location to incubate its eggs and raise its young. These ingenious creatures go about this in several ways, 13 in fact! In this video, we'll cover the 13 ways birds construct their nests and explore over 30 species examples. Enjoy!

00:00 Nesting Basics
00:38 Standard Cup
01:46 Adherent Cup
02:48 Dome/Sphere
03:52 Pendant
04:58 Colonial
07:27 Cavity
08:22 Platform
09:30 Floating
10:23 Burrow
11:30 Mound
12:32 SelfIncubating
13:36 Scrape
14:39 No Nest
15:23 Honourable Mention

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Cavity Illustrations Jones, Howard; Jones, Virginia Smith; Shulze, Eliza J / Public Domain
Mallee Fowl Digging snowmanradio / Wiki Commons CC BY 2.0
Mallee Fowl Donald Hobern / Wiki Commons CC BY 2.0
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Sources & Further Reading
Listed below are the sources used to create the video.

This article, in particular, is fascinating and clearly written by someone who knows a LOT about bird nests!
https://earthlife.net/birds/nesttype...

This is another fantastic website that has information about each bird and their nesting preferences
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/

Types of bird nests
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_nest
https://www.thespruce.com/typesofbi...
https://www.thoughtco.com/typesofbi...
https://www.birdsandblooms.com/birdin...
https://animals.mom.com/birdnestsha...
https://earthlife.net/birds/nesttype...

Individual bird nests
https://www.treehugger.com/bizarrean...
https://www.birdspot.co.uk/birdnumbe...
https://www.thedodo.com/unusualbird...

Hatching development & behaviour
https://www.differencebetween.com/wha...
https://avianreport.com/altricialpre...

Adherent
https://www.beautyofbirds.com/ediblen...
https://www.wildbirdwatching.com/Ba...

Dome / Sphere
https://asknature.org/strategy/domes...
https://birds.fandom.com/wiki/Whitet...
https://southafrica.co.za/hamerkopne...

Pendant
https://academy.allaboutbirds.org/the...
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18972...

Colonial
https://africageographic.com/stories/...

Cavity
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40962188
https://costaricaguide.com/nature/w...
https://www.beautyofbirds.com/learsma...

Platform
https://www.euronatur.org/en/whatwe...
https://journeynorth.org/tm/eagle/ann...

Floating
https://birdfact.com/articles/swanne...
https://animalia.bio/greatcrestedgrebe

Burrow
https://www.shentonsafaris.com/blog/c...

Mound
https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/...

Megapode Mound
https://news.mongabay.com/2015/10/the...
https://www.bushheritage.org.au/speci...
https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/...

Scrape
https://www.oiseauxbirds.com/cardco...
https://www.penguinsinternational.org...
https://dwr.virginia.gov/falconcam/2...

Ground/No Nest
https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/...
https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/...

Bowerbird
https://blog.nature.org/science/2021/...

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