Sentence examples for nest lining from inspiring English sources

Nests are lined with soft plant matter; Nespera aquatica is a popular nest lining plant that grows along forest edges where White-bearded Manakins dwell (Snow 1962).

In August, mountain beavers pile vegetation near burrow entrances until it becomes wilted or dry, then move it into the burrow to be eaten or used as nest lining.

Despite changes in nesting trees, nests usually have a base of sticks and a thick nest lining of feathers and soft plant material.

For species having big nests, however, only a representative fraction of the nest lining was collected and preserved in plastic bags.

My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.

Later, she discovers "a small bird's nest lined pale / and silvery and the chicks —  / are you listening, death?

Later, she discovers "a small bird's nest lined pale / and silvery and the chicks— / are you listening, death?—warm in the rabbit's fur".

Later, she discovers "a small bird's nest lined pale / and silvery and the chicks— / are you listening, death?—warm in the rabbit's fur". There are shades of E. E. Cummings, Oliver's onetime neighbor in Manhattan, in that interjection.

The nest, lined with rope, shredded paper, feathers and other materials, will serve as the nursery for the baby hawk or hawks until they learn to fly on their own.

It grows before me, just my size, five feet tall and with a bird's nest lined in snakeskin nestled in its heart.

The female song thrush builds a neat cup-shaped nest lined with mud and dry grass in a bush, tree or creeper, or, in the case of the Hebridean subspecies, on the ground.