| The female Mistletoebird builds the nest by herself with no help from the male. |
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| During each visit to her candidate site, the scout wanders through it, approaching nest mates and touching them with her antennae. |
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| This is the largest rookery in the world for the critically endangered species and half a million turtles nest here every winter. |
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| The osprey pair, who mate for life, will share the task of warming the egg in their Scots Pine tree nest over the next 40 days until it hatches. |
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| The marbled murrelet, a bird about the size of a robin, is the only seabird to nest in old growth forest. |
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| There he had a nest over the window of a house in which dwelt the writer of fairy tales. |
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| It didn't kill the wasps, the nest was made of paper so it absorbed the shock and just split open. |
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| Collared aracaris live in groups and five adults may roost in the nest cavity after the eggs hatch. |
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| First, the flight trajectory will obviously depend on the way in which a bird will enter its nest site. |
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| Females pair with a male within a day of arriving and begin building their first nest within a few days. |
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| I watched lapwings competing for nest sites on the damp fields where I also saw pheasants, grey partridges, teal and mallards. |
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| The nest is a platform or shallow cup of twigs and stems built on a crevice, cliff, tree or the ground. |
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| American Golden-Plovers nest primarily on arctic and subarctic tundra of North America, and winter on South American grasslands. |
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| Herring gulls nest numerously here, as they do at Emery and other points already passed. |
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| Whenever possible, we selected birds whose mates were present at the nest to ensure that chicks were not left alone. |
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| Another hazard that sometimes faced the picker was disturbing a nest of wasps or some other stinging creatures. |
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| Her rich chestnut hair was piled into a nest of soft ringlets with soft wispy curls framing her heart-shaped face. |
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| The nest is lined with fine, soft materials including animal hair and lichen. |
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| Both birds work at nest building, but before this begins there is much play. |
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| They nest gregariously in sandy roadways and trails, bulldozed sandy fields, and sandpits. |
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| A number of sand martins currently nest in the upper layer of soil on the cliff at Glengad. |
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| Once paired, they build a nest on the ground of seaweed, eelgrass, and algae, held together by droppings. |
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| The outside of the nest is camouflaged with moss, bud scales, leaves, and lichen, and often looks like a bump or knot on the branch. |
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| In April 2002, the team built and placed a number of bluebird and wood duck nest boxes. |
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| Glasgow-based Simon Starling's Ladder 5.4m is a scaffolded crow's nest on which you can just see welding gear. |
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| The nest is typically located close to water where it is concealed in dense cover. |
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| These shelters help to make the nest cooler in the hot summer and to retain the woodrat's body heat in the desert's cold winter. |
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| In the present study, we investigated patterns of aggression and nest mate recognition in the wood ant, Formica paralugubris. |
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| In summer we would go down to the Dingle Lodge to swim or look for birds nest and watch waterhens on the canal. |
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| As we took the top out of it I found a huge nest which is what I assume was the magpie house. |
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| The bantams have been giving me strange looks recently, and a small robin is trying to nest in our bedroom. |
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| The bird and its mate had built the nest in the bottom of the box and laid five tiny eggs. |
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| But the gravestone also provides shade for the survival of the chick of a pair of brown boobies that nest beside it each year. |
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| There's a nest in the woodrose vine outside the drawing room window, just above my eye level. |
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| The quetzals have nowhere to go, so they nest in tree cavities within easy reach of the toucans who feast on quetzal eggs and chicks. |
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| Roustabouts shouting from the crow's nest float like Ascension angels on a ring of lights. |
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| How was I going to tease her for having bird nest hair if she didn't and had beautiful, lustrous raven hair? |
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| However, the interpretation of sign at nests to classify nest predators was almost wholly ineffective. |
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| Ideally, avoid beehives, but be aware that Africanized bees often nest in boles of trees, old tires and junk. |
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| They lay an egg in the nest of another bird, such as a reed warbler, and when the new cuckoo hatches it kicks out the reed warbler chicks. |
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| All eggs in a nest hatch at the same time, and the entire brood leaves the nest at once. |
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| In the first two weeks after the young hatch, the female stays on the nest to brood them, and the male brings food for the female and the owlets. |
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| It's something of a mare's nest that looks susceptible to legal enquiry to us. |
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| We confined our trapping to the late stages of incubation to minimize nest desertion due to trapping procedures. |
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| Before six months of age chicks continue to stay around the nest as their parents bring back food and regurgitate it for them. |
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| Once paired, the male brings nest material to the female, who builds the stick nest in a tree or shrub. |
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| Yeah, okay he didn't win as many matches as he would have wanted to, but he has set up a very good platform for the nest manager to start on. |
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| When an incubating bird is relieved by its returning mate, it leaves the nest immediately and flies away from the island. |
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| I estimated colony size from the volume of the nest mound, which increases with total ant biomass. |
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| Nests without thermistors were checked more often so that nest failure dates could be determined within a few days. |
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| Winter Wrens breed in moist coniferous forests and nest in dense brush especially along stream banks. |
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| A male with young in the nest will avidly take care of a stalk of celery or a head of lettuce daily. |
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| He'd go nuts filling his pouches with sunflower seeds and rebuilding his nest in the little hamster house he had. |
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| Any tick up in interest rates spells relief for income-starved investors who have their nest eggs locked up in certificates of deposit. |
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| Millions of us have our nest eggs in taxed savings accounts that pay well below the going rate of interest. |
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| Deep within a nest cavity near the top of the tree, the pair's two chicks uttered hoarse coos, begging for food. |
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| Some have been known to nest in burial caves and may use human bones as nest material. |
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| At 36 days young weasels are weaned and can eat food brought back to the nest by the mother. |
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| The young chicks fledge or leave the nest in around 60 days and become fully independent in 14 more days. |
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| They nest in colonies in scree slopes along ice-free Antarctic and sub-Antarctic coasts, where they lay a single egg in a natural cavity. |
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| We made observations from a portable hide positioned at least 6 m from the nest using a telescope. |
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| The nest is either a simple scrape lined with a few twigs and feathers or a large stick nest in a tree. |
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| The nest is a shallow depression, sometimes unlined, or lined with seaweed, moss, or feathers. |
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| The male defends a territory that may house a small harem of females who nest on the ground in the dense cover of alfalfa, wheat, or hay. |
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| Virtually all Guillemots in Britain nest either on sea-girt cliffs or on small islands whence the chicks can readily reach the water. |
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| The owl soared downwards into the thicket of pine trees where its nest was. |
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| One female initiated a second nest attempt 24 days after fledging young from her initial nest and successfully fledged a second brood. |
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| The nest is typically located in dense foliage on a horizontal branch near the trunk of a tree, or in a vertical fork. |
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| If all goes right at the nest site, it takes eight months to fledge a chick. |
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| Perhaps the best-known lacquered Russian folk art piece is the matryoshka, a series of wooden dolls that nest inside each other. |
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| A nest of wasps gathered in my mother-in-law's garden shed and I bought a spray and killed them all. |
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| Termites rush to a breach in their nest and clamp their jaws onto the snout of a marauding anteater, almost guaranteeing their own death. |
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| The lack of suitable nest sites has also resulted in increased predation by corvids and mammals on the eggs and chicks. |
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| Within the U.S., the leatherback is known to nest in Southeastern Florida, Culebra, Puerto Rico, and St. Croix. |
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| As a result, Taiaroa Head is the only place in the world where albatrosses nest on a mainland. |
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| They can strip insulation from wires for nest material and their urine sometimes causes corrosion on relays and other electrical components. |
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| The young leave the nest soon after they hatch and find their own food immediately. |
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| All birds in the nest need protein, the kind that comes from any type of bug. |
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| Desertion was recognized if one or both parents were not seen at the nest for at least two consecutive nest checks. |
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| Two young doves had been picked up in their nest when a coral tree was chopped down. |
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| The young leave the nest at about 16 days but stay on the breeding territory for another 3-4 weeks before heading off on their own. |
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| In the rufous bush robin, nest size was positively related to the size of prey males carried to the nest to feed the young. |
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| Delineation of habitat features associated with territory placement and with nest success will be an important next step. |
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| The nest held 206 cells, six of which contained larvae in various stages of development. |
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| Clean out any soiled bedding when you see it and add fresh material to keep the bottom of the nest box well padded. |
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| His efforts have even resulted in the reintroduction of the California condor, which nest on parts of his property. |
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| A king cobra's nest was discovered on May 1 near the house of Mogappa, a coffee and cardamom grower, near Kumarahalli Bachahalli in Kodagu. |
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| The reserve provides food and safety to the migrant birds that pair and nest on Siberian tundra but spend winter in Britain. |
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| Here there's a nice 1898 Arts and Crafts style house, sheltered by beech copses with kettle nest boxes and carpeted yellow by winter aconites. |
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| Twenty years ago, the local rabbit board assisted us to get rid of an enormous wasps nest in some railway land near our house. |
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| Battling acrophobia and nausea as you scale the mast of this 104-foot-tall ship to the crow's nest and peer down into the roiling water below. |
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| The typical Ruby-crowned Kinglet nest is deep and is suspended from two hanging twigs. |
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| In spring, peregrines often nest near The Main Area or Red Slab and these buttresses should be avoided at this time. |
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| They produce a litter of one to five young yapoks at a time, which are born in the nest two weeks after they mate. |
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| Typical nest behaviors, such as aggression and trophallaxis, were not observed among aggregating wasps. |
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| The rest of the morning he flapped from nest to pole to river and back again, trying to rid himself of what was now a loathsome burden. |
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| This bird was feeding young in a nest perched in the eaves of one of the temple buildings. |
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| Meanwhile, commercial and residential developers, and managers of timberlands, were removing the bluebird's existing nest sites. |
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| Typically built in a conifer, often near cones or knots or on an old cone base, the nest can easily be mistaken for a cone. |
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| His face, blank and colorless, was detailed only by the dark shadows beneath his eyes and the nest of light brown hair atop his head. |
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| In 1983 and 1984, the ability of whole broods to thermoregulate was tested as a function of brood size, nest environment, and brood age. |
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| On their breeding grounds, they nest close to penguin colonies where they feed on the eggs and the young. |
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| After losing the first egg, oystercatchers often move to a new nest scrape to lay the remaining eggs of the clutch. |
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| These fledgling wild barn owls wait in their man-made nest box for their parents to deliver a meal of mice or other rodents. |
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| Mountebanks like him can suck them dry of their last earnings by promising them a little nest in the heavens. |
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| Because the eggs of the Montagu's harrier are highly prized by egg collectors, we've had to keep the nest site a secret. |
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| Several females may deposit eggs in the same nest and a female may deposit eggs in several different nests. |
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| In many species, males guard nest sites in which several females can deposit their eggs. |
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| The slave-making ants go to the nest of another ant-species to rob pupae, which are carried back. |
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| To estimate nest age, we candled 1-2 eggs in each nest or aged nestlings from voucher photographs of known-age young. |
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| The view to port and starboard along the river from my lookout in the crow's nest was picture perfect. |
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| To test effects of predation risk on incubation behavior, we presented a taxidermic model of a common nest predator. |
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| They attack the birds that nest in holes, so a heavy seeding puts birds such as the kaka, parakeet and yellowhead more at risk. |
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| The far-right ideologue's appearance here is already stirring up a hornet's nest of opposition. |
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| We detected no difference in clutch size, hatch success, or nest success between parasitized and nonparasitized females. |
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| Almost simultaneously a western blind snake popped out of the nest and wriggled off into the night. |
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| The birds' mother is also an awesome sight, as she flies onto the nest with a fish in her mouth to feed her young. |
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| Just prior to mating, the female constructs a tiny cup nest of moss, lichens, and the silk of spiders' webs. |
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| The caterpillars, which mimic the larva of M. sabuleti, are carried into the nest by the workers, where they then feed on the ant larvae. |
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| I discovered that the chickadees had fledged from the bluebird box and bluebirds had started a nest with one egg already laid. |
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| He said that the nest was at an old church up river about twenty klicks from here. |
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| They have protected the nest since March, and continue to do so now the fledglings are almost ready to fly the nest. |
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| They nest on Arctic and subarctic Alaskan tundra, and may winter on islands in the Pacific Ocean as far south as Australia. |
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| More and more birds are losing chicks and returning to nest the following year instead of skipping a year. |
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| A pair has made a scrappy, twiggy nest around six metres from the ground in one of Williams' pine trees. |
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| The male emu will build its nest in a scrape in the ground in the shape of a circle, lined with grass and other vegetation. |
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| Egg laying in each group of babblers takes place in one nest usually between February and August. |
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| Tall shrubs provide the higher vantage points and nest sites preferred by birds such as wood pigeon. |
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| The nest is usually located on top of a low mound or small island, under a small shrub or in a sedge tussock. |
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| A nest of a plain prinia and a half built nest of Black headed munia were also found. |
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| The male feeds the female on the nest and helps her brood the young when they first hatch. |
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| Neonatal sliders in North America generally remain in the nest over the winter before emerging the following spring. |
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| Black skimmers also attempted to nest and will hopefully be successful in the future. |
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| We numbered each nest and marked its position with a small plastic tag on the outer edge of the reed bed towards the open water. |
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| Birds nest in them, and bring in seeds of other trees like alders and oaks. |
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| Mountain Quail nest on the ground in dense cover, usually sheltered by a shrub, log, or clump of grass. |
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| The caterpillar is taken inside the ant nest where it promptly turns carnivorous and starts devouring its hosts' eggs and young. |
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| Note that the definition of nesting success includes the effects of both nest predation and hatching success. |
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| Long-eared Owls usually nest in abandoned stick nests, often the nests of magpies, crows, ravens, or hawks. |
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| Although we love our regular yard birds, every spring we are delighted with each migrant that returns to nest with us. |
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| When desertion was only suspected after two checks, further checks were conducted until the status of the nest became clear. |
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| Within each nesting block, we tallied the number of avian nest predators observed. |
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| Garden birds need undergrowth to hide and rest in and nest sites in your large hedge, away from the prying eyes of the magpies. |
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| A nest box with heat lamp or ceramic heater should always be provided if birds are left outside at night or on rainy days. |
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| The nest is usually located in or under big sagebrush or three-tip sage plants. |
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| Colonies of this species typically contain multiple queens, and most reproductive individuals mate within their parental nest without dispersing. |
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| A third of the world's arctic skuas, big fierce birds nicknamed Bonxies, nest on the great hills of the island. |
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| Extremely cautious birds, black storks only nest in old forests far from humans. |
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| For some midlife parents, the empty nest isn't an issue simply because the nest hasn't really emptied. |
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| The young leave the nest within a day of hatching and follow their parents out into the marsh. |
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| One to three days after hatching, the young leave the nest and hide in nearby cover. |
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| But this year, the birds surprised conservationists by selecting a nest site deep in the forest. |
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| The female stays on the nest and broods the young for the first week or so after they hatch. |
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| Instead of finding something for her to eat, she found a nest of large insects of the predatory variety. |
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| In the chaos, the wasp slips unnoticed through the ant nest and preys on the unguarded caterpillar. |
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| The majority of these insects build nests and therefore suitable nest sites must be maintained. |
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| At each study site, we plotted the location of all nest predators seen or heard relative to robin nests. |
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| Colin Marlow, 56, was attacked by the insects after disturbing a nest on his smallholding. |
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| In others, it may include completion of a rite of passage, such as getting buried up to your chin in an ant nest on your thirteenth birthday. |
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| The only person not in black is a child making a nest of stones near a cairn of rocks. |
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| Beneath a nest of angel hair phyllo shreds is a layer of bizarre, bland melted cheese in a pool of honey syrup. |
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| He had a nest of black hair and his skin was tanned and wrinkled, though not necessarily by age. |
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| Where once Nato was about European protection, is it not now becoming the cuckoo in the nest of European ambitions? |
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| He was lying on his back in a nest of bedding on the floor of the central corridor, and the past was confusing. |
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| I decided that the birds could nest anywhere except in the stand of horse chestnut trees outside my back door. |
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| Mrs Grey is, as I write, curled up on the floor of my study in a nest of patchwork pieces. |
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| Maybe we could have made some raspberry vinaigrette, draped ourselves over a nest of baby greens, if you know what I mean. |
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| Afterwards, fuelled by chocolate Santa heads, I would sit in a nest of crumpled, torn wrapping paper, impatient for the new year to move quickly. |
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| They nest in hardwood stands, almost always on or near rivers, streams, or other wetlands. |
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| Mrs Jellyby, sitting in quite a nest of waste paper, drank coffee all the evening, and dictated at intervals to her eldest daughter. |
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| The Australian Bower Bird decorates his nest with colorful pebbles, bits of glass, and insect wings. |
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| It was topped with a nest of straw potatoes and drizzled with a mustard and yoghurt dip. |
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| As she waits with the horse, he takes his time finding his way around and she falls asleep on a nest of leaves near the horse. |
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| Chimneys are the perfect habitat for these birds, although they will nest in silos, wells, air shafts, or abandoned buildings in a pinch. |
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| The woman on the other hand had dark, auburn hair that was pulled back into a nest of braids on the back of her head. |
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| Settled within a nest of blankets, the teenager found it very hard to get back into typing. |
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| Protected in its nest of agave leaves, the meat would steam away for hours before carefully being dug from the pit. |
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| No sooner are you snug in your new nest than you find that units on your floor are being used as a hotel, with people coming and going. |
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| Interesting, cos they are not portrayed as a tight, likeable team, but a nest of corruption and depraved power-to-commerce cynicism. |
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| To wrap things up, he repeats that he sees the RA as a great opportunity, not as a nest of problems. |
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| Welfare is now seen as a tool for training the impoverished, not a nest of dependence or a barrier to performance. |
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| But now U.S. forces feels it's a nest of former regime loyalists and anti coalition fighters. |
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| The Caribbean was a nest of pirates until cleaned up in the eighteenth century. |
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| I been working for Rorake for some time but because some of our men found a nest of vampires I had to go. |
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| He winces when a dozen members of Company B are mistaken for a nest of rebels one night and are targeted for a U.S. air strike. |
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| To burn those extra calories, a colony of 150 weavers with no nest would have to catch and eat 4,500 more insects each day. |
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| This development was seized on by right-wing commentators to argue that the American CP was nothing but a nest of spies. |
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| He also discovers a nest of intrigue, decadence and a heathen willingness to murder people very casually if they get in your way. |
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| There's really nothing out there to refer to on flying birds, save one photo he took from directly beneath a bird leaving its nest cavity. |
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| The man, in his early 20s, was hanging out of a bedroom window of his third-floor flat trying to eradicate the nest in the roof eves. |
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| It took me another three seminars to realise that I'd accidentally fallen into a nest of revolutionary socialists. |
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| When the nest framework was finished but some soft materials were still needed to line the nest cup, we performed the experiment. |
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| This is as if the Spycatcher affair ten years ago hadn't showed MI5 to be a nest of hard right conspirators. |
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| Most charges focus on the Mafia's control of New York's waterfront, vast and beautiful, but for years a nest of corruption. |
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| This consists of a nest of polished steel tubes that have been likened both to organ pipes and to the pine trunks of the Finnish forests. |
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| I sit on a sofa that is part of an old three-piece suite around a nest of tables. |
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| In the burial chamber, a nest of four golden shrines, each sitting within the other, are removed, to reveal a stone sarcophagus. |
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| What happens is when they fly the nest the muscles in their wings aren't quite strong enough. |
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| Greenapple has produced a little nest of transparent glass tables, each made from a single sheet of glass. |
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| However, for rheas living in subtropical areas, nest attention could also avoid egg temperatures increasing up to lethal level for embryos. |
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| Neither the pet shop proprietor nor the new owner of the birds knew that the owls nest in underground burrows, which requires deep soil. |
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| Interesting water birds and several species of ducks and warblers nest there. |
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| I was explaining how you get more crockery in if you nest the little bowls inside the big bowls when I sensed that Mel was somehow not with me. |
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| Grey-headed sparrows are relatively nervous birds and if you scare them away a few times they will go off and look elsewhere for a nest site. |
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| Both species need large areas of fens and wetlands and are highly intolerant of human disturbance at nest sites. |
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| House wrens are secondary cavity nesters and readily use nest boxes in forests and at forest edges. |
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| Because many larks nest in open desert areas, chicks are often exposed to sun and heat. |
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| Colony nesters, Flesh-footed Shearwaters nest on islands off the coast of Australia and New Zealand. |
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| Colony nesters, Pink-footed Shearwaters nest only on islands far off the coast of Chile. |
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| A late nester, the female Gadwall picks the nest site, which is usually near water and surrounded by dense weeds or grass. |
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| The woods around the fort buildings are a good place to spot several kinds of land crab, and migrant bird species nest in the nearby marsh. |
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| Nest orientation was then recorded, relative to magnetic north, as the azimuth bisecting the nest opening. |
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| Pileated Woodpeckers eat wood-boring insects and insects that nest in trees, including long-horned beetles and especially carpenter ants. |
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| They nest on islands or inland in dense forests with thick moss but little underbrush. |
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| Among psittacine species, the Lilac-crowned Parrot had one of the lowest rates of overall nest success. |
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| The sand wasp works hard to look after its young but the female is too busy to guard all her nest sites. |
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| Once an enterprising hornet scouts out a bee colony, it marks the nest with a type of bodily chemical substance called a pheromone. |
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| Other times it can be like sitting in a hornets' nest with sand fleas up your nose. |
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| We did not detect any nest site changes among resident birds as a response to the experimental treatment. |
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| He has also acted as a foster parent to various animals, including a juvenile stork that was taken from its nest and later abandoned. |
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| Detailed information on spacing behavior of avian nest predators is lacking for my study plots. |
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| To illustrate, consider a nest found during the incubation stage and that candling of the eggs revealed they were close to hatching. |
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| Their photographs confirm it was frequent to find nests in deeply flooded reedbeds with water lapping the nest edges. |
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| They nest in shallow depressions in the tundra, and broods of two to eight leverets are born in late June and are fully grown by early September. |
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| A pair of long-tailed magpies is building a nest in the trees along the millstream that runs down from the hills and through town. |
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| Following oxygen consumption measurements, content of the nest box was inspected for presence of eggs and female morphometrics were taken. |
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| In both burned and unburned areas, Wood Thrushes selected nest sites with higher cover of ferns and forbs in comparison to random sites. |
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| Female kakapo raise their chicks on their own, and at night they leave their nest to forage for food. |
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| A nest was considered storm-destroyed if it was flattened by wind or badly damaged by hail or rain. |
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| Female amphiumas come to land to nest and lay their eggs, usually under a log near the water's edge. |
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| Some birds will re-nest if the nest is destroyed by predators or by human activities, such as cultivating and haying. |
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| Two of the control males had most likely sired one and two offspring, respectively, in one nest each. |
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| He lies in the nest for tonight, taken from a stray mutt and her mongrel puppies. |
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| Three baby bronze mannikins sit atop their grass nest while mother and father show concern at the entrance perch. |
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| Nests were revisited on the expected hatch day and every 3 days after hatching to assess nest success and nestling survival. |
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| Unlike most shorebirds, Solitary Sandpipers do not nest on the ground, but find an old, abandoned, songbird nest in a tree. |
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| In addition, ten perching bird and eight raptor species, including Mexican spotted owls and goshawks, sometimes nest within these structures. |
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| Numerous interacting abiotic and biotic factors have profound effects on nest sites and incubating females. |
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| Some of our results suggest that the extractable agent in nest soil is organic, and possibly biogenic. |
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| Disturbance can also cause nest abandonment in shy species, including bald eagles and white-tailed sea-eagles. |
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| Breeding fighting fish are territorial, defending an area around a nest of mucus-coated bubbles floating on the water surface. |
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| On breeding grounds where the primary source of food is kleptoparasitism, territories are small and pairs nest in loose colonies. |
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| If a scout discovers a host nest, it returns to the mother colony and recruits nest mates. |
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| Mrs. Leivers insists that Paul see this nest made by a jenny wren. |
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| That may be achieved by locating the nest in such a way that it does not get wet, or by protecting the inner insulating material with a water-repellent outer layer. |
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| The northwards path along a rocky coastline takes you to Dunstanburgh Castle, a romantic ruin where kittiwakes, cormorants and fulmars nest on whinstone cliffs. |
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| When nesting on a rock ledge, the fulmars do not build a nest, but when they nest on a bank or slope, they make a shallow scrape, occasionally lined with small stones. |
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| Botfly larvae often attack nestlings as do other nest parasites. |
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| It wasn't long before she decided to fly the nest and make her way to Paris, where her jobs included modelling, waitressing and learning to cook at the La Varenne school. |
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| During the dry season, and beginning of the rainy, they form pairs and fly in small groups that may nest together in old woodpeckers holes or large termitaries. |
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| The northwards path along a rocky coastline takes you to the castle, a romantic ruin where kittiwakes, cormorants and fulmars nest on whinstone cliffs. |
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| In the corner a tabby cat is curled round a nest of her kittens. |
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| Before eggs were laid, we trapped adults in their nest boxes and banded them with aluminum Canadian Wildlife Service bands and colored plastic leg bands. |
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| Under the Carolina Raptor Center's Project Barn Owl, nest boxes are being set up around Charlotte, North Carolina, to lure both barn owls and barred owls. |
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| He observed that both species construct nests similar to those of some caciques and, curiously, they often nest together in mixed-species colonies. |
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| There was also a new type of wasp building a nest in the mango tree. |
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| They nest above the treeline, and when they leave the tundra, they find similar treeless habitat in prairies, agricultural areas, and coastal dunes. |
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| Furthermore, Blue Jays nest in all parts of trees, including crotches in the main trunk, large horizontal limbs, and near the tips of terminal branches. |
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| Breeding in separated pairs, this snowy sheathbill has a large nest in a rocky crevice made of a variety of materials thrown up on the beach by the waves. |
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| They typically nest in a horizontal fork or vertical crotch of a tree. |
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| As any journalist who has poked at this hornet's nest can tell you, myself included, the wrath of the 4chan hive is no picnic. |
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| But that's abstract enough to allow people to read into it what they will and avoid the hornet's nest of contemporary politics. |
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| They nest in the low Arctic, on tundra ponds with marshy shores and bogs. |
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| If the nest is lined with soft or rotting bits of wood secured in the internal angles, the pair will derive endless pleasure from reducing it to crumbs. |
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| Green turtles can be observed in the waters from July to the end of September, when they come ashore to nest on the sand and shingle beaches on the island's eastern side. |
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| Reading the hundreds of blog entries about Huffington's site from today is like watching a swarm of fire ants invade a robin's nest and turn the chicks to red pulp. |
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| In Billy Wilder's aching, razor-sharp urban romance, Jack Lemmon works for a massive insurance company and his apartment has become a love nest for adulterous executives. |
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| They can nest up to 60 km inland, but are dependent on marine habitat for their primary food, Pacific sand lance, which they forage for close to shore. |
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| Many people have gathered substantial nest eggs from building-society windfalls, privatisations and by making the most of tax breaks available under Tessas, Peps and Isas. |
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| However, rapid return to the nest would seem irrelevant for the majority of foraging time when nearly continuous flows of outgoing and returning traffic prevail. |
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| Western Screech-Owls are secondary cavity nesters, making use of natural cavities, old Pileated Woodpecker or Northern Flicker holes, and nest boxes. |
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| The vision of what we're trying to get is go out and give the hornets nest a few whacks and get them all out in the open and have it out with them once and for all. |
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| A call back and the nest site is marked and added to the tally. |
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| The final tip is to try not to nest tables inside of each other. |
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| Then I decided to nest Bonobo inside, and they got even clearer. |
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| One fellow I know, who lost a sizable portion of his nest egg and lives off his investments, was a paragon of cheer and lightness. |
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| Is it simply because the CLA exists in part to kill small creatures and they would like the moors free of disturbance so small birds can nest in peace? |
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| They have a new nest in a tree back on the campus of the community college, whose sports teams happen to be named the Eagles. |
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| But the specialized life history and ecology of sponge-dwelling shrimps foster long-term occupation of specific nest sites by multigenerational family groups. |
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| They have been flying out of her shop, which is why she has extended the range of Ercol reissues to include a settle, a dining table and a nest of tables. |
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| On July 19, 2003 a non-viable, addled osprey egg was collected from a nest at the northern end of Upper Richardson Lake in Richardsontown Township in western Maine. |
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| An addled eagle egg was recovered from an abandoned nest along the Androscoggin in Lewiston and submitted to analytical labs for contaminant testing. |
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| Greater White-fronted Geese nest on marshy ponds in the tundra or taiga. |
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| All over the region, people are revisiting a nest of grievances. |
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| The Purbeck mason wasp is a large, red, black-and-yellow mason wasp which provisions its nest with the caterpillars of a tortricid moth which feeds on heathers. |
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| It made me realise I'm living in a nest of privileged Tory vipers! |
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| They know what it means to be tiny spots on the map, remembered only if embroiled in a terrible conflict that turns the whole region into a nest of unrest. |
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| I knew enough to see that the text was a nest of problems which competent scholars could go on investigating, but I had lost my path through the maze. |
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| On that last one, the DVLA is looking at tachographs as well, which rounds out the whole automotive picture into a potential mare's nest of a privacy nightmare. |
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| In the end I gave in and joined the two of them and then all three of us snoozed the rest of the day away, all snuggled together in a nest of warm wool. |
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| Like motmots and todies, kingfishers often have brilliant plumage, are largely insectivorous, and nest in cavities that are often excavated in earthen banks. |
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| Brian uncomfortably fluffed up a nest of sorts on the couch. |
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| Pull the baby runners back into the rows so they are not trodden on later, lifting the ripening berries up and carefully coddling each plant in a nest of straw. |
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| Colored eggs in a nest of moss await display on a tabletop or mantelpiece. |
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| They were still feeding their fledged young, but in two more days the female had relined the nest and then immediately started laying a second clutch of eggs. |
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| They would sit at the bottom of the stands with their wares sitting in a nest of ice chipped from a big block, answering requests from the fans above them. |
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| My God, each box is a perfect reduced-impact nest of quality bubble wrap. |
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| Pembroke river is described as a refuge for wildlife. Thousands of birds feed on the mud flats during the winter and in the summer shell duck nest and rear their young here. |
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| Millions of people have followed the private lives of the Lakes osprey and watched as the five young have been successfully reared in the nest over the last four years. |
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| It likes the stables and barns to nest in and rear its young. |
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