Las Animas - Bent County Library District

Shows why the mother nesting bird stays quiet and still while sitting on her eggs.

The story of a nesting pair of murrelets who fly inland from their home in the Pacific Ocean to the Douglas-fir tree area of California where an egg is laid. After the egg is hatched the parents fly back and forth to the ocean bring fish for the young bird to eat. And finally when the fledgling leaves the nest and heads to the ocean.

Simple text and photographs describe birds and the nests in which they live.

Focuses on the behaviors of various kinds of birds as they return to northern areas in the spring, claim territory, court, build nests, and lay eggs.

What animal lives in a nest? A bird, of course. But did you know that many other animals build nests, too? Fish, turtles, rabbits, and even chipanzees make nests for their eggs or their babies. Some more animals build twig nests in trees. Others use sand to make nests on the ground. Some fish even from nests of bubbles in water!