Sentence examples for return to the same nest from inspiring English sources

Most breeding pairs are monogamous, and they tend to return to the same nest each year.

Salmon return from the ocean to spawn in the stream in which they were hatched; swallows return to the same nest sites in northern Europe each spring from wintering in southern Africa.

Many species in the order travel long distances over open water but return to the same nest site each year, raising the question of how they navigate so accurately.

Every year they return to the same nests, with the same mate.

Often a group of females will return to the same nesting site within the same nesting colony year after year.

Likewise, while they do not return to the same nests year after year, and typically create new ones instead, they sometimes use nests made in previous years by other great Indian bustards.

Pairs typically mate for life and return to the same nesting site each year, giving the group a degree of social permanence.

The other type of philopatry exhibited is site fidelity, where pairs of birds return to the same nesting site for a number of years.

The mother has now returned to the same nest that she used last year and where her partner, who flew in last week, was waiting for her.

Among the most extreme examples known of this tendency was the fidelity of a ringed northern fulmar that returned to the same nest site for 25 years.

The average number of birds returning to the same nest sites is high in all species studied, with around 91 percent for Bulwer's petrels, and 85 percent of males and 76 percent of females for Cory's shearwaters (after a successful breeding attempt).