The 13 Ingenious Ways Birds Build Their Nests

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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 Self-Incubating
13:36 Scrape
14:39 No Nest
15:23 Honourable Mention

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Hamerkop Nest - Greg Schechter / Flickr CC BY 2.0
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/nest-types-identification

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/types-of-bird-nests-386664
https://www.thoughtco.com/types-of-bird-nests-4001370
https://www.birdsandblooms.com/birding/attracting-birds/bird-nesting/8-different-bird-nests-how-spot-them/
https://animals.mom.com/bird-nests-hang-small-branches-6393.html
https://earthlife.net/birds/nest-types-identification

Individual bird nests
https://www.treehugger.com/bizarre-and-beautiful-bird-nests-4863564
https://www.birdspot.co.uk/bird-numbers/10-remarkable-birds-nests
https://www.thedodo.com/unusual-bird-nests-1268578028.html

Hatching development & behaviour
https://www.differencebetween.com/what-is-the-difference-between-nidifugous-and-nidicolous/
https://avianreport.com/altricial-precocial-birds/

Adherent
https://www.beautyofbirds.com/ediblenestswiftlets.html
https://www.wild-bird-watching.com/Barn-Swallow.html

Dome / Sphere
https://asknature.org/strategy/dome-shape-protects-nest/
https://birds.fandom.com/wiki/White-throated_Dipper
https://southafrica.co.za/hamerkop-nests.html

Pendant
https://academy.allaboutbirds.org/the-montezuma-oropendolas-hanging-nest/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18972698/

Colonial
https://africageographic.com/stories/11-interesting-facts-about-sociable-weavers/

Cavity
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40962188
https://costa-rica-guide.com/nature/wildlife/resplendent-quetzals/
https://www.beautyofbirds.com/learsmacawbreeding.html

Platform
https://www.euronatur.org/en/what-we-do/bird-conservation-in-europe/profile-white-stork-ciconia-ciconia
https://journeynorth.org/tm/eagle/annual/facts_nest.html

Floating
https://birdfact.com/articles/swan-nesting
https://animalia.bio/great-crested-grebe

Burrow
https://www.shentonsafaris.com/blog/creating-the-carmine-bee-eater-colony/

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

Megapode Mound
https://news.mongabay.com/2015/10/the-maleo-a-success-story-for-indonesias-strange-pit-digging-bird/
https://www.bushheritage.org.au/species/malleefowl
https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/largest-birds-nest

Scrape
https://www.oiseaux-birds.com/card-common-ringed-plover.html
https://www.penguinsinternational.org/2019/10/01/penguin-architecture/
https://dwr.virginia.gov/falcon-cam/2019/03/weve-got-a-scrape/

Ground/No Nest
https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Aptenodytes_patagonicus/
https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/540367-longest-egg-incubation-for-a-penguin

Bowerbird
https://blog.nature.org/science/2021/01/04/bowerbirds-meet-the-bird-worlds-kleptomaniac-love-architects/

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