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nesting

2.4

The act of birds making a safe place to lay eggs

noun
/ˈnɛstɪŋ/

: anidación

Just like when we watch birds in the garden and, and they're building nests, you see that it's not built in one day.
nesting made of sticks
nesting in stick nests

RN asks how do bees decide to build a nest?

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Examples

It's nightingale's droppings from their nest, you know?
So C this is the nesting sites of Patagonian seabirds.
So anyway, we will work on that and the nesting box it is.
This is a male on his nest and he is nesting in algae.
So over thousands of years, all, a lot of the birds and turtles, they developed ground nesting because there were no predators to eat their eggs.
Yeah, but, well, how's that different than a than a bird creating a nest on top of a tree and then fights off other birds on top of a tree?

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But she'll also eat beetles and worms and eggs, baby birds that are nesting on the ground or small rodents.
They are, they create huge nests, just enormous, sometimes networks of nests.
Among the most benign, black headed ducks lay their eggs in other nests to be incubated.
Many birds return to the same location each year for nesting during the spring.

Antonyms

abandonment

26 3.6

Leaving someone or something and not coming back

desertion

20 6.2

Leaving someone, a place, or a duty when you should stay to help

Compounds

nesting place

2.1

A place where birds or animals build a nest and lay eggs

Surface Forms

nesting singular

nestings plural

Morphology

nesting = nest (transparent) = nest + ing

This is the regular gerund or action noun from 'nest', so the meaning is closely and predictably derived from the base verb.

Etymology

Nesting comes from nest, a bird's home, and means 'making or living in a nest', just like birds build nests in spring to keep their eggs safe.