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Strange Places for a Nest

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🗓️ 12 December 2024

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Some birds improvise their homes with whatever they can find.

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0:00.0

This is bird note.

0:03.0

Birds are resourceful.

0:08.0

Wherever they live, even in the biggest cities, they find clever places to build their nests.

0:14.0

An initiative from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology called Celebrate Urban Birds

0:19.0

once asked people to share the funkiest and funniest places

0:23.1

they've seen a bird nest. One family of robins set up shop in a coiled cable hung near a welding

0:31.4

rig. Other robins raised their chicks in a nest perched on an elk skull mounted above a garage.

0:40.3

Carolina rins are a spinole. raised their chicks in a nest perched on an elk skull mounted above a garage. Carolina Wrens are especially creative.

0:43.2

People have found their nests in an old watering can, in an unused outdoor grill,

0:47.8

in the motor of an old car, and on top of a perfectly good birdhouse.

0:55.0

One of the most unlikely finds was a teeny, tiny, ruby-throated hummingbird nest poised on top of a small string light bulb over a patio.

1:04.0

The human owners of the light bulb kept their patio string lights off until the baby birds learned to fly.

1:15.4

Each of them is an odd spot for a nest, but for these birds, it's home.

1:21.9

Where's the strangest place you've seen a bird nest?

1:24.8

Let us know on social media.

1:26.9

For Bird Note, I'm Ariana Rimmel.

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