Explore: Nesting Habits

pest rodents. Females usually moult from September to January, after the nesting period is over. Whereas, males moult from November to May, once the chicks

types of breeding animals, generally gregarious birds. Coming from the nesting habits of rooks, the term is used for corvids and the breeding grounds of colony-forming

typical nesting habits for a true owl, tending to raise a relatively small brood often in a tree hollow or snag (but sometimes also in other nesting sites)

 Volume 2. London: R.H. Porter. pp. 262–263. Nayar, K.K. (1934). "The nesting habits of the Small Sunbird Leptocoma minima (Sykes)". Journal of the Bombay

biology and nesting strategies are unique to this species and are absent in other stork species. Such differences in breeding and nesting habits have probably

ground nesting species that builds on both vertical banks and horizontal surfaces. Females fly close to the ground in search of ideal nesting sites and

puffin acquired the name much later, possibly because of its similar nesting habits. The shearwaters form part of the family Procellariidae, a widespread

green body colour, and brightly coloured underparts. Named for their nesting habits, burrowing parrots excavate elaborate burrows in cliff faces and ravines

tropical Central Pacific. It is a poorly known species due to its remote nesting habits, and it has not been extensively studied at sea either. It is one member

nesting habits by day; thus the red-tailed hawk is something of a diurnal ecological equivalent. The great horned owl is one of the earliest nesting birds