Sentence examples for nests from inspiring English sources

After a short interval, another pair appeared, and constructed a habitation, chiefly with materials purloined from the other nests.

The whirling black shapes rise from their large untidy nests and out over the fields.

When they got the call, staff and members of the RSPB, helped by local volunteers, set up a 24-hour watch to protect the nests.

Brood management would guarantee that if more than one hen harrier nested in any 10km/sq area of grouse moor, government scientists would remove additional nests, raise the chicks in captivity and release the young birds into lowland areas.

Unlike most birds of prey, which are territorial and fight each other over nesting and hunting grounds, the hen harrier nests close to other harriers.

RSPB negotiators expressed their fears about the long-term implications: if nests of one of the rarest breeding birds in England were removed and the chicks reared in captivity, which rare species would landowners want to control next?

The rock paintings, more of which are being discovered yearly, are under threat from constant wildfires, from feral animals that rub against the cave walls and from wasps whose nests dislodge the ephemeral ochre paints.

But humans responded, and over half of barn owl nests are now thought to be in manmade boxes.

While most visitors take a boat trip to see the eagles or visit a hide overlooking a nest, several photographers have been prosecuted for disturbing the birds by getting too close to nests.

Mull rumours say cat collars are found in nests ("a complete fabrication," says Sexton – the eagles do snatch feral cats, which does all wildlife a favour).

With its 8ft wingspan and massive nests, it is conspicuous and, unlike the notoriously wary golden eagle, an inquisitive animal.