When do birds build their nests?
When exactly the birds build their nests can still be clearly observed in spring. But the breeding behavior of our native birds differs from species to species.
Watch the birds when they build their nests
You will need a lot of patience and perhaps binoculars or a telephoto camera to watch our native birds build their nests. The "when" is crucial, you should keep your eyes open from around March.
- First, watch out for the larger birds like magpies and pigeons. They also build nests, but their size makes them easier to observe.
- Take your time and go to the forest or a park, as long as the trees are not all green, because the nests from the previous year can be clearly seen in the trees that are still bare.
- Make a note of the spots and come back after a while to watch the birds build and repair the nests. You will find that several bird families build their nests in a particularly well-protecting tree.
- With binoculars you can see whether the birds are already building their nests. You can use it to monitor the progress later.
- Usually the nest building takes place at the beginning of spring. You will increasingly see birds flying around with twigs and other building materials. That can be very entertaining.
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Our native birds also build differently
When building nests, birds are like humans:
- Some love prefabricated houses and do not build their own nests, such as B. the tits, who like to hatch their eggs in incubators or move into hollows in trees whenever they find one.
- Others like wooden houses and spend hours tinkering with them, like all woodpecker species that breed and live in tree hollows that they have cut themselves or in existing ones.
- And still others prefer a rural area, but then love to live in high-rise buildings, like storks. Storks keep their partners, that's researched. And they always come back to the same nest. Master Adebar personally builds the storks' nests on chimneys, high ruins, electricity pylons and in similar "residential areas".
- Pigeons also build nests. Like most birds, they seek shelter in mature trees and build the nest as high and stable as possible (pigeons are relatively heavy) in the forks of branches.
- Laying intervals and breeding times are very different for all birds. But the hatching of the eggs is an innate, protective instinct towards one's own offspring. Most living things have this instinct.
- However, the cuckoo exhibits particularly strange behavior. He lays his eggs in strange nests, where they are then reared by other bird species. So he doesn't need to build his own nests.
Have fun watching!
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