Sharon Beals' recently published book, Nests: Fifty Nests and the Birds that Built Them, asks readers to stop and consider the life of birds, and their astounding self-sustainability. Birds can navigate by stars, magnetic fields, or polarized light, without Google Maps - just pure, inherited instinct. They can also travel extreme distances - from hemisphere-to-hemisphere - and they build astounding nests:
Beals chose to feature 50 bird varieties in her book looking closely at their nests, and reveals a wide range of techniques and materials used - including mud, branches, sticks, leaves, lichen, spiderwebs, moss, saliva, fur, bones, and human-litter. Each unique nest demonstrates the creativity and unique "architecture" that the species can produce.
Burn brightly, Pete.
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