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A Curious Bird's Nest
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A Curious Bird's Nest

  • P. B. BRODIE 

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A CURIOUS bird's nest, or rather its adjuncts, has lately been presented to the Warwick Museum. It was found in a curved iron pipe intended to deliver water from a well at the baths, and appears not to have been used for some time. The entire length of the pipe was four feet, and the diameter five inches. The bird had built its nest in the centre, and had not only surrounded it with moss and other materials, but had extended them for some length on each side, the total amounting to two feet two inches. The singular thing is that the bird should have taken so much trouble to do this, and it really might seem as if, like the bower birds, it had done it in sport; for it was not necessary (though the sharp little bird may have thought so) for the preservation of the nest to extend it so far on each side with moss, feathers, and other things. The eight small eggs in the nest appear to have belonged to the blue titmouse.

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BRODIE, P. A Curious Bird's Nest. Nature 54, 172 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/054172b0

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