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nest

(nĕst)

a. A structure or shelter made or used by a bird to hold its eggs during incubation and to house its young until fledged.

b. A structure or shelter in which other animals, such as reptiles, fish, or insects, deposit their eggs or tend their young.

c. A structure or complex built by ants, termites, or other social animals to house a colony.

d. A number of insects, birds, or other animals occupying a nest: attacked by a nest of hornets.

2. A place affording snug refuge or lodging; a home.

a. A place or environment that fosters rapid growth or development, especially of something undesirable; a hotbed: a nest of criminal activity.

b. Those who occupy or frequent such a place or environment.

a. A set of objects of graduated size that can be stacked together, each fitting within the one immediately larger: a nest of tables.

b. A cluster of similar things.

5. A group of weapons in a prepared position: a machine-gun nest.

v. nest·ed, nest·ing, nests

v.intr.

1. To build or occupy a nest.

2. To create and settle into a warm and secure refuge.

3. To hunt for birds' nests, especially in order to collect the eggs.

4. To fit one inside another.

v.tr.

1. To place in or as if in a nest.

2. To put snugly together or inside one another: to nest boxes.

[Middle English, from Old English; see sed- in Indo-European roots.]

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nested

(ˈnɛstɪd)

adj

(of similar objects) placed one inside the other

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nested

adj (Comput) menu → verschachtelt

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Mean daily survival was generally lower for the four early successional, shrub-nesting species (0.919-0.952), than the four woodland generalist and forest interior species that nested in trees (0.955 to 0.981; Table 3).

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(1991) reported that of 43 nests in total of brown-eared pheasants in Shanxi Province, 29 (67.43%, n=43) nested under a roof of dead sticks from trees logged by local people, whereas 2 (4.65%, n=43) besides larger stones.

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In this study, we assessed killdeer reproductive success in a landscape of oil and gas drilling by comparing daily nest survival between birds that nested on oil pads and those that nested on traditional substrates of short grass cover.

Are oil and natural gas development sites ecological traps for nesting killdeer?

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Starlings nested in 40 percent of boxes and 24 percent of tubes, whereas Eastern Bluebirds and Tree Swallows combined nested in 52 percent of boxes and 76 percent of tubes.

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Or to the birds which nested in a butt box outside Guhring Tool Makers in Castle Bromwich Business Park several years ago.

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These finding are in agreement to the studies done by Vijayan (1980) who reported that red-vented bulbul preferred to build nest in thorny trees and bushes and mostly nested in central position.

BREEDING BIOLOGY OF RED VENTED BULBUL (PYCNONOTUS CAFER) IN THE AREA OF RAWALPINDI/ISLAMABAD

We predicted that owls would switch nests more frequently if they nested unsuccessfully in the previous nesting attempt or if there was a turnover in one of the resident owls.

Nest reuse by Northern Spotted Owls on the east slope of the Cascade Range, Washington

Blackbirds have been found nesting on car wheels, blue tits have set up home in communal ashtrays and mistle thrushes have nested on a set of traffic lights.