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Nests offer clues about natural history, climate change and their owners' mating habits
August 12, 2011
House Finch (Arizona, 1965); thread, paper, twist ties.
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Small Ground Finch (Galápagos Islands, 1906); grass, twigs, wild cotton
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Spotted Nightingale Thrush (Mexico, 1968); moss, lichen, leaves
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Gray Jay (Colorado, 1938); twigs, cocoons, lichen, bark, fur, feathers
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American Dipper (California, 1951); moss, grass, leaves, bark
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MacGillivray’s Warbler (California, 1920); Field notes: grass inside bark
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Western Tanager (Nevada, 1934); twigs, bark, pine needles, animal hair
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House Wren (California, 1974); twigs, fine grass, skeletons of abandoned runt chicks.
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