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With this lesson plan and accompanying media from NATURE, students explore the nest-building practices of various bird species.

In this video from NATURE: Animal Homes, learn about Puffin colonies.

In this video from NATURE: Animal Homes, explore the brush turkeys’ unique nest building practices on the forest floor.

In this video from NATURE: Animal Homes, learn about a unique species of ducks, the Hooded Mergansers.

Learn how male and female red ovenbirds work together to build nests made out of mud and clay in this video from NATURE: Animal Homes.

Watch the busy hummingbird craft the perfect nest in this video from NATURE: Animal Homes.

Visit Yale’s Peabody Museum of Natural History alongside NATURE’s host and ecologist Chris Morgan to view a sampling of birds’ nests from around the world.

Learn about the mechanical properties of birds’ nests from Yale University structural engineer Corey O’Hern in this video from NATURE: Animal Homes.