The nest helped Baxter herself find courage in an upbringing punctuated by an absent mother with severe mental illness.
He successfully petitioned the Ministry of Environment and Forestry to declare the lake a protected wetland, built an island there for bird nesting, helped run seminars to educate local villagers in ecotourism, and converted an abandoned teachers' dormitory into an ecotourist hostel — although, when we visited the village, we found the hostel boarded up and the windows broken.
Furthermore, in Polistes metricus wasps, behavioural experiments have suggested that odour cues on the nest help to form the colony odour and influence the wasps' perception of the colony odour [37].
The workers remove dead bees or larvae from the nest and deposit them outside the nest entrance, helping to prevent disease.
When paleontologists do find a nestlike structure that includes material such as sticks or other vegetation, the question arises: Was this stuff part of the original nest, or just carried there with the sediment that buried the nest and helped preserve it?
To feed its young, the adult rockfowl clings to the side of its nest while fluttering its wings; some birds use their tails as a prop underneath the nest to help support themselves.
Florida scrub jays (Aphelocoma coerulescens)—endangered, 20-centimeter-long bluish birds, first attracted biologists' attention almost 50 years ago because the young often stick around the nest to help the parents raise subsequent generations of offspring, a rare breeding arrangement among vertebrates.
Placing shiny things for the birds to take and stash in their nest might help.
A fake wasp nest will help because wasps are fiercely territorial.
One of the common mistakes people make is to directly pick up the birds, eggs, or to detach the nest, to "help" these abandoned creatures.
Because polygamous nests produce more helping daughters, this in turn increases lifetime nest productivity and the potential transmission of alleles for multiple mating.
