“The nidification of birds,” rejoined Goldsmith, “is what is least known in natural history, though one of the most curious things in it.” ❋ Unknown (2004)
In its general manner of feeding, of quickly hopping out of the thickets and back again, in its desire of concealment, unwillingness to take flight, and nidification, it bears a close resemblance to the ❋ Unknown (2003)
Casarita (or little housebuilder), although its nidification is quite different. ❋ Unknown (2003)
P.S. -- I read not long ago a German article on the colours of _female_ birds, and that author leaned rather strongly to your side about nidification. ❋ James Marchant (N/A)
Excluding from the general series specially mounted objects, such as groups of birds showing nidification, change of plumage, or illustrating the habits of animals -- such groups to be mounted on separate stands in the middle of the room. ❋ Montagu Browne (N/A)
They have no connexion with the nest, and are simply playing-places, in which the birds divert themselves during the months which precede nidification. ❋ Various (N/A)
I read not long ago a German article on the colours of female birds, and that author leaned rather strongly to your side about nidification. ❋ Marchant, James (1916)
From its affinity, the Spaniards, call it Casarita (or little housebuilder), although its nidification is quite different. ❋ Unknown (1909)
In its general manner of feeding, of quickly hopping out of the thickets and back again, in its desire of concealment, unwillingness to take flight, and nidification, it bears a close resemblance to the Turco; but its appearance is not quite so ridiculous. ❋ Unknown (1909)
This rare event is probably a case of reversion to the long-lost, aboriginal instinct of nidification. ❋ Unknown (1909)
Not the mere tap, tap, tap, in quest of insects, but the love-call drumming of the nidification season, nearly three months ahead of time. ❋ Frederick John Lazell (1905)
American cuckoos are not given to such slovenly habits, but build their own nests and faithfully perform the duties of nidification, as all respectable feathered folk should. ❋ Unknown (1896)
Natural History: see Animated Nature; nidification, ii. ❋ Boswell, James, 1740-1795 (1887)
-- I have built up the "Magpie's Nest" from two nidification myths, as a German professor would call them, in the Rev.Mr. Swainson's _Folk-Lore of British Birds_, pp. 80 and 166. ❋ Joseph Jacobs (1885)
It seems not to be generally known to our writers upon ornithology that certain of our woodpeckers -- probably all the winter residents -- each fall excavate a limb or the trunk of a tree in which to pass the winter, and that the cavity is abandoned in the spring, probably for a new one in which nidification takes place. ❋ John Burroughs (1879)
We label him with two or three _sesquipedalia verba_, give his territorial range, describe his notes and his habits of nidification, and fancy we have rendered an account of the bird. ❋ Bradford Torrey (1877)
After the work of nidification is over, birds as a rule wander more or less from their breeding haunts; and even if they do not wander they are likely to become silent. ❋ Bradford Torrey (1877)
