Variations in Engineering Features of the Nests of Several Species of Birds in Relation to Nest Sites and Nesting Materials

• Main Author: Nickell, Walter P.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Digital Commons @ Butler University 1956
• Subjects: Detroit; Greenland
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/botanical/vol13/iss1/14; https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/context/botanical/article/1262/viewcontent/14VariationsInEngineeringFeaturesOfTheNestsOfSeveralSpeciesOfBirdsInRelationToNestSitesAndNestingMaterials.pdf

During about thirty-five years of field work in bird ecology in eastern and central North America, I have examined in the field or collected and analyzed about 20,000 nests of 169 species of birds. This list represents nearly a third (31.3%) of the 533 species listed by Pough for the entire region o...