Absecon removes two night heron nests

Press of Atlantic City;  May 17, 2007 ;     594 words ......Protection for permits to remove eight night heron nests situated within a square-mile area near the city's...The DEP granted permits May 4 to remove four of the nests. Two of the nests were removed May 8 by Atlantic Arborists, a Linwood-bas...

Nests are the best!(birds build their nests in spring)

Ranger Rick;  May 1, 1997 ;     49 words ......supplies in their beaks? Different birds build their nests out of different things. Can you spot any nests in trees or fields near you? What are they made of...may see a bird fly to a nest. Keep a sharp eye out--nests are often well hidden.

UI resumes destroying nests, not birds

New Haven Register;  March 28, 2007 ;     355 words ......resumed tearing down huge monk parakeet nests Tuesday to protect utility lines, but with...something we've done all along, monitoring the nests and removing them when they get large enough...said UI crews began to remove nearly 70 nests. The nests, which can weigh in excess of...

Bird lovers cry foul over destruction of parakeets' nests

AP Worldstream;  December 5, 2005 ;     538 words ......by an energy company to remove 103 large nests from its utility poles and destroy the...Connecticut, says the 200 pound (90.72 kilograms) nests of sticks and twigs cause fires and blackouts...country. In Connecticut, where the communal nests are home to as many as 40 parakeets each...

Sanford airport officials plan to destroy eagle nests.

Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, FL);  March 19, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Airport officials in Sanford plan to destroy nests belonging to three pairs of bald eagles...declared the situation an emergency. The nests could be cut down as soon as this week...determine whether the eagles from the targeted nests are the same eagles causing trouble on...

Nests best for osprey return; Artificial homes going up across...

Daily Post (Liverpool, England);  July 31, 2008 ;     413 words ......Affairs Editor A NEW set of artificial osprey nests are to be built in North Wales to help...also looking to contact volunteers so the nests can be guarded round the clock. Currently...Pysgod) has been constructing artificial nests. Working with Roy Dennis, world authority...

3 nests of rare bird found

Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  June 25, 2007 ;     435 words ...MILWAUKEE (AP) - Three nests of the rare Kirtland's warbler have been...Fish and Wildlife Service said two more nests have been found. The bird, one of the...Officials say this marks the first time nests have been found outside Michigan since...

Nests removed but birds here to stay.

Connecticut Post (Bridgeport, CT);  April 11, 2007 ;     475 words ......spring-cleaning program, ripping down monk parakeet nests from nearly 70 utility poles in southwestern...parrots in the future as it clears the nests from the poles, to which many bird colonies...recent project took three days, removing 45 nests in West Haven, one in New Haven, three...

UI loses bid to dismiss suit over parakeets' nests

New Haven Register;  September 28, 2006 ;     257 words ......opposes any attempt by UI to tear down nests and capture an invasive South American...resuming its 2005 program to tear down the nests of monk parakeets and to capture them in...because the utility only has plans to remove nests, not capture the birds, as part of its...

Conn. Bird Lovers Defend Parakeets' Nests

AP Online;  December 5, 2005 ;     597 words ......Dateline: HARTFORD, Conn. Monk parakeets build nests on power poles in West Haven, Conn. Wednesday...United Illuminating Co. to remove 103 large nests from its utility poles and destroy the...United Illuminating Co. to remove 103 large nests from its utility poles and destroy the...

Swallow-tailed Kites carry passerine nests containing nestlings to their...

Wilson Bulletin;  September 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......up to 16% of the identified prey delivered to 13 nests in Florida and 18% to 9 nests in Guatemala (Sutton 1955, Snyder 1974, Meyer and...Ictinaetus malayensis), have been reported to carry nests containing nestling prey (Brown and Amadon 1968...

Stinking decorations protect nests.(African waxbills use fur from...

Science News;  September 1, 2001 ;     249 words ......common waxbill's habit of adorning its nests with fur plucked from carnivore scat turns...Africa, these songbirds build enclosed grass nests on the ground, explains Justin G. Schuetz...excreted fur to tuck into the walls of their nests. I could find some of the nests just by...

Nests of Northern Spotted Owls on the Olympic Peninsula, Washington.

Wilson Bulletin;  March 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ......occidentalis) use a variety of structures for nests, including cavities, platforms constructed...1926, Bent 1938, Ganey 1988). However, two nests on cliffs have been observed in western...been tested, it appears that the types of nests used are influenced by availability and...

Oldest reptile nests discovered in Arizona

AP Online;  October 28, 1998 ;     541 words ......AP Online 10-28-1998 The world's oldest known reptile nests have been identified in Arizona, establishing that protective...years old, twice as old as any previously known reptile nests. The nests _ holes in the sand that over time turned into stone...

Yellowjackets Are Supersizing Their Nests

NPR Weekend All Things Considered;  September 2, 2006 ;     649 words ......NPR) 09-02-2006 Yellowjackets Are Supersizing Their Nests Host: DEBBIE ELLIOTT Time 19:00-20:00 PM Play Audio...reporting a frightening natural phenomenon: giant nests of yellowjackets, nests that may house 100,000 insects, nests that sprout...