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Typical nest box


A nest box (or nestbox also called birdhouse) is a man-made box provided for animals to nest in. Nest boxes are most frequently utilized for wild and domestic birds, but certain species of mammal may also use them.

Boxes are usually wooden, though some for birds are made from mixtures of wood and concrete, called woodcrete. Metal nest boxes are also marketed, but these are generally unsuitable for outdoor use, as they can overheat easily in sunshine.

The majority are cuboid, and many have a sloping roof. Many have a hinged top to provide access for cleaning, bird ringing or, when used for domesticated species, to give the breeder access to the young. Boxes may either have an entrance hole or be open fronted. Some nest boxes can be highly decorated and complex. Designs mimicking human house design or other structures are common in some gardens.
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Mulitple nest box and feeding station at Tortworth Court

Birds

The size of a nest box should be suited for the guest inside it. Quite large boxes are used for ducks and owls.

Nest boxes for wild birds should be cleaned annually to remove old nests and kill parasites. The nest boxes of domestic birds and other animals should be removed and cleaned after the breeding season is over and no more young are expected. Budgerigars and other birds raised domestically will not usually mate unless a nest box is present.

Other creatures

Nest boxes are marketed not only for birds but also for bats, some other mammals and bees. Depending on the animal, these boxes are used for roosting, breeding, or both. Most small mammals will use a nest box for raising young if one is provided.

Dogs will also use a nest box to raise a litter. Usually this is simply a large wooden or cardboard box with the front cut down enough to permit the dam to enter and exit the box but not allow the puppies to exit. These nest boxes intended for dogs are known as whelping boxes. Whelping boxes often have a board inserted horizontally on all sides to prevent the puppies from being accidentally suffocated by the mother when she lies down to feed.

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The term wild generally refers to:
  • Wildlife, all non-domesticated plants, animals, and other organisms
  • Wilderness or Wilderness area, a natural environment on Earth
  • Wildness, the quality of being wild or untamed
Wild or Wyld
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Domestic or domestique can refer to:
  • Domestic policy is policy existing or occurring inside a country, not foreign or international
  • An animal or plant that has been domesticated
  • A cycling domestique
  • A domestic worker, see also housekeeper

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Aves
Linnaeus, 1758

Orders

About two dozen - see section below

Birds (class Aves) are bipedal, warm-blooded, egg-laying vertebrate animals.
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species is one of the basic units of biological classification. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring.
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Mammalia
Linnaeus, 1758

Subclasses & Infraclasses
  • Subclass †Allotheria*
  • Subclass Prototheria
  • Subclass Theria

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The WOOD callsign may refer to:
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Concrete is a construction material that consists of cement (commonly Portland cement) as well as other cementitious materials such as fly ash and slag cement, aggregate (generally a coarse aggregate such as gravel limestone or granite, plus a fine aggregate such as sand or
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Sunlight, in the broad sense, is the total spectrum of the electromagnetic radiation given off by the Sun. On Earth, sunlight is filtered through the atmosphere, and the solar radiation is obvious as daylight when the Sun is above the horizon.
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cuboid is a solid figure bounded by six rectangular faces: a rectangular box. All angles are right angles, and opposite faces of a cuboid are equal. It is also a right rectangular prism. The term "rectangular or oblong prism" is ambiguous.
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roof is the uppermost, covering, part of a building. The purpose of the roof is to protect both the building itself and its living or material contents from the effects of weather.
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A hinge is a type of bearing that connects two solid objects, typically allowing only a limited angle of rotation between them. Hinges may be made of flexible material or of moving components. In biology, many joints function as hinges.
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Bird ringing (also known as bird banding) is an aid to studying wild birds, by attaching a small individually numbered metal or plastic ring to their legs or wings, so that various aspects of the bird's life can be studied by the ability to re-find the same individual later.
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Duck is the common name for a number of species in the Anatidae family of birds. The ducks are divided between several subfamilies listed in full in the Anatidae article. Ducks are mostly aquatic birds, mostly smaller than their relatives the swans and geese, and may be found in
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Strigiformes
Wagler, 1830

Families

Strigidae
Tytonidae
Ogygoptyngidae (fossil)
Palaeoglaucidae (fossil)
Protostrigidae (fossil)
Sophiornithidae (fossil)
Synonyms

Strigidae sensu Sibley & Ahlquist Owls
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Parasitism is one version of symbiosis ("living together"), a phenomenon in which two organisms which are phylogenetically unrelated co-exist over a prolonged period of time, usually the lifetime of one of the individuals.
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Melopsittacus
Gould, 1840

Species: M. undulatus

Binomial name
Melopsittacus undulatus
(Shaw, 1805)

The Budgerigar (
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BAT may refer to:
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Mammalia
Linnaeus, 1758

Subclasses & Infraclasses
  • Subclass †Allotheria*
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C. l. familiaris

Trinomial name
Canis lupus familiaris
(Linnaeus, 1758)

The dog (Canis lupus familiaris) is a domestic subspecies of the wolf, a mammal of the Canidae family of the order Carnivora.
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Cardboard is a generic non-specific term for a heavy duty paper based product.

Paperboard

Main article: Paperboard


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