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All Birds Build new nests each spring A nest is used only as nursery to raise babies. When the young fly from the nest, they do not return to it.
There fore , a nest is hot actually a home from that first flight on, the young birds perch on branches, to sleep at night, just as their parents do.
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If you find a nest with eggs or babies, don’t visit it too often or for too long a time. The path you make to the nest may lead to danger to the family. And if you keep the parents away too long, the eggs or the nestlings may chill.
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You will notice that each kind of bird always chooses the same kind of place for its nest. A robin always builds its nest on a fork of a branch, and an oriole’s nest is always hung from the tips of thin twigs high up from the ground.
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Each kind of bird always uses the same materials to identify the nest of a specific bird, you need to know where the nest was, how high up from the ground it was build, its size and the materials used.
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Feather collections can be fascinating. Every bird grows a new set of feathers at least once a year, sometimes twice.
The process of shedding the old worth out feathers, usually a pair at a time is called mounting and occurs in late summer.