nesting
/ (ˈnɛstɪŋ) /
the tendency to arrange one's immediate surroundings, such as a work station, to create a place where one feels secure, comfortable, or in control
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Another notable region is nicknamed “Pigeon Valley” for the thousands of bird nesting holes dug into the pliable rock.
The Secret Life of Cappadocia: Underground in the Turkish Rock Formations | Nina Strochlic | August 22, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe birds have returned to the beach for their annual nesting—and the uncommon people never left.
Six Months After Sandy, the Rockaway Story Continues | Michael Daly | April 29, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTWorkflowy: Keep track of to-do lists, grand plans, and groceries to pick up in this clever nesting-system of organization.
Must-Have Apps: What To Download On Your New Device | Nina Strochlic | December 25, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTIn the Cavour high school in central Rome, mice run through the halls, nibbling on open wiring and nesting in the lockers.
It rides in on two house-made pickle rounds nesting on a thin slice of bread.
Eggs and nestlings were found lying on the bare soil at the inner ends of the burrows; no nesting material was found.
Summer Birds From the Yucatan Peninsula | Erwin E. KlaasProbably the swallows were nesting in the cenote although the nests were inaccessible to view.
Summer Birds From the Yucatan Peninsula | Erwin E. KlaasIt appears, however, to be rather irregular in its breeding habits, nesting from the end of May to July or August.
Birds of Guernsey (1879) | Cecil SmithI wish to inform those boys with whom I have been exchanging that as the nesting season is over I have no more eggs.
Harper's Young People, November 30, 1880 | VariousMarked as a rare summer resident, though no record of nesting.
Birds of the Rockies | Leander Sylvester Keyser
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