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Activity 4 Building Bird Nests Created By Point Reyes Bird Observatory Education Program Teacher Resource Packets Classroom Activities Activity #4 Building Bird Nests Activity 4 Objective: Background To teach students about songbird Different species of birds build different nests, the different types, placement types of nests in a variety of places from di- and uses. rectly on the ground to high up in trees. Some birds build floating platform nests in Materials: marshy, wet areas. Most songbirds build nests within 5 m of the ground. Birds within Nesting material (grasses, moss, lichen, small the same species build similar types of twigs, spider webs, hair) nests, but the nest material used depends on the surrounding habitat. Birds start glue and tape building nests in early spring, typically in March, but some birds, such as the Anna’s pieces of cardboard Hummingbird will start building in late Janu- (to use as a base for the nests) ary or early February. Cavity, cup, pendu- old magazines and books lum, platform, and spherical are five major with pictures of bird nests. types of nests that birds build. The provided worksheets describe the five types of nests bird nest worksheets (#1- and give examples of birds associated with