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If you live in a city or suburb, it can be hard to feel connected to nature. But next time you step outside, pause, look and listen — even in the most densely populated areas, birds are almost ...
The material a bird selects for its nest depends on the dimensions of its beak, according to researchers. Using data on nest materials for nearly 6,000 species of birds, a team based at the University ...
So what’s going on inside a nest? This is what researchers are studying in a new paper in the Journal of Applied Physics. In a way, the classic cup shape of nest—the ones we most often find on tree ...