7 Insane Bird Nests that Will Change How You Think About Birds

How long does it for the tailorbird egg

Birds that lived alongside dinosaurs? You meant dinosaurs other than birds, right?

I'm surprised you didnt mention communal nests like those of cotorras

"Depression on the shore" is the title of the movie I recorded on my last vacation.

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You forgot my favorite. The swallows that make mud nests on cave walls... and bridges... and houses... and

We have a husky and make sure to leave her fur available for birds to use I'm their nests during construction time, they love the stuff

Here in Louisiana on the way to New Orleans there’s a bald eagles nest. It’s been there for years and it’s nationally protected because you don’t really see them here anymore. It’s very rare. They would point it out every time we went to Nola for a field trip to the i max theater insectarium and auquarium. Then we would eat lunch under the giant magnolia tree close to the state capital building 😅ahhhh memories

Fantastic Video!

Thank you for the chocolate bar.

That world's largest bird nest was in the acreage used for the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Sadly, Hurricane Irma make it crash to the ground. Or so I heard.

Horrible masking/editing. Your face keeps melting into the background. Sophomoric quality at best.

Hamerkops probably uses snakeskin or dead birds to "decorate" in order to repel predators. Some small animals, like rodents, will chew snake molts into a paste and rub it onto their fur. This way their scent is covered.

So between the snake skin and decomposing birds, the scent of eggs, chicks, and parents are concealed. Predators like snakes, lizards, smaller birds of prey, etc will probably think the nests are homes to other predators. The small tunnel will keep bigger birds of prey and other bigger predators out.

It's kinda weird that scientists don't understand the reason for the "decorations". Especially since other small birds will bring snake skins into their nests as well.

I had a hummingbird friend once, found her tangled up in a bit of fishing line that was balled up in a branch hanging over the river bank. The poor thing was soaking wet and struggling to keep above water by hanging on to a bit of branch that was twitching back and forth in the current. I picked her up and removed as much of the line as I could without the risk of tightening it, then put her in my shirt pocket so she could warm up and dry off a bit while I got the boat back to shore, where I had better tools and some packets of sugar in the truck.

By the time I got back just a few minutes later, she was deeply asleep. I managed to safely remove all of the monofilament with fingernail clippers and a razor knife, and mixed up a bit of sugar water in a 20oz water bottle. She woke up after a few minutes of being in the warm truck and gladly slurped down a surprising amount of sugar water from the bottle cap. She eventually crawled out of my pocket and climbed up my arm to get closer to the air vents and spread her wings, and was mostly dry by the time we got home. Spent the rest of the day hiding in my pocket and drinking sugar water, and the night in an old birdcage on my night stand with plenty of twigs to climb and perch on. Talked to a vet the next day, had her examined and left with a clean bill of health.

She didn't seem to want to leave, although she could have flown off at any time. My home wasn't even a mile away from where I found her, so I think she would have been fine if she did.

She stayed with me for 5 more years, refusing to go any further outside than the back porch unless she was accompanying me. I started solely wearing shirts with front pockets just for her, stuffing it with a small handkerchief before she loaded up and stuck her head out to see what was happening. It was 50/50 whether she'd return to the pocket or my hair after buzzing around. She made several nests of her own throughout the house, the first was a sort of rolled up leaf from one of my potted plants on the porch. I took the hint and put one next to my bed as well, she had been staying in a coffee mug filled with straw on my night stand.

PSA: Some people believe that leaving out cut hair (like, from the barbershop floor) for the birds to make nests from is a good and helpful thing. No. It's not. Don't do it

Human hair is quite strong, and can be very long. It can and does get wrapped and tied around extremities, cutting off circulation to fingers, toes, and other parts.

Birds near barber shops are statistically FAR more likely to be missing toes. Human babies have also lost fingers, toes, and even penises this way.

What about the colocalia fuciphaga? Aka swiftlets that made their nest completely from their own saliva 😁

Snowy owls nest on the ground.

Ah, yes, the weight of a human. So anything between 1 and 500kg?

Pigeon nests, anyone? There's a small twig an inch away from an egg, that's about all there is to see.

I’d love a new episode about more nests!

Maybe you can talk about Quakers, aka Monk Parakeets. They build huge communal nests with several “apartments” in them, that can span several metres across! Very dapper 😌

A nest that changed how I thought about birds was mourning dove nests: they put 2-5 sticks near each other and call it a day.

Birds aren't real.

I found a blue tit had made a nest in me pubes..theyre that bushy i didnt notice until i saw them feeding the babies.whilst i was avin a tommy tank..well atleast the crabs and scabs😱🤣keep them fed🤮🤠😜🤣🤣

Dump ALL incumbents.
I feed hummingbirds.
Dump ALL incumbents.

Dump ALL incumbents.

So I know this was posted two years ago. But you really missed a joke for the bald eagle could of said it gave them a birds eye view

Im still waiting for the chocolate bar

Truly shocked they didn’t include flamingo nests

what about those cave birds who make nests out of their spit, on the cave walls

Part 2?

When I was a kid a would weave twigs and branches around a willow tree to make a wall around the tree. Does that count as a nest?

His "Don't put giraffes inside birds' nests!" has almost the same energy as his "Don't eat grass, don't eat grass!!"

I once found a collection of sparrow sized nests made from ripped up plastic Tesco bags. They were abandoned though.

I also used to chuck hair that was caught in my hairbrush out the window, so birds could put it in their nests.

Birds like the coat of my dads Black Lab-German Shepherd/Husky mix. The thick under coat mixed with a little bit of waterproof top layer of the lab

I figured the video would mention the mallee fowl and its nest. What about kingfishers who burrow into the sides of banks, the birds that burrow into termite nests, or puffins and burrowing owls who take over other animals' burrows?

I love the giraffe comparison really puts it into prospective

thats awsome

That nest bigger than my room

I had the speed set to 0.25x and for some reason it took me ages to realise something wasn’t right with the intro

I legit read incest to impress as title

Joke's on you, I already arrived impressed by birds! Thanks for this video, was pretty cool even though I knew most of it already.

The best nest in the whole world, made from scratch, amazingly engineered to be extremely solid even includes an internal divider to prevent predators entering in it, is the Hornero (Furnarius rufus) nest. From South America, the national bird of Argentina.

How did you not have bower birds in this video?

I want a suprise chocolate bar

There's a bird that builds its nest out of its own spit and people forage for it as a delicacy.

Shhhhh! Secret here! Boston mbta worker here.
Piping plovers also build their nests in train yards and right of ways. They are everywhere and probably not endangered after all!
Also orient heights yard has a massive osprey nest that I've been trying to relocate! It's on our 600v conductors and we have an abundance of faults on that particular circuit all the time. I have troubleshooted it down to the nest. I have suggested a larger structure that would lure the birds from our powerlines but it's been on all deaf ears. Can you guys help me and possibly the fledglings that are more then likely gnawing on cables in this nest.

Disappointed penguins weren't on this list but I get it. There are other birds out there and a lot of people know about penguins