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architecture without blueprints, built by birds who never took a single engineering class
means A structure built by a bird (or other animal) to hold its eggs and young, or by extension any cozy, snug, or sheltering place where something settles in.
from From Old English 'nest,' from a Proto-Germanic root that gives German 'Nest' as well. Trace it back further and you reach the Proto-Indo-European pieces *ni- 'down' and *sed- 'sit' — literally 'the place where you sit down.' So a nest is, etymologically, just the spot where you settle yourself, which is exactly what a bird does with twigs and what you do with a couch on a Sunday. Related, fittingly, to 'sit' and 'settle.'
- biggest build
- Bald eagle nests can weigh over two tons
- edible kind
- Swiftlet spit nests sell for thousands per pound
- no nest
- Emperor penguins balance eggs on their feet instead
- recycler
- Some birds weave in spider silk for stretch
great salt lake aviary — over 250 bird species nest here, including grebes and pelicans in utah
svalbard global seed vault — stores 1.1 million crop seed samples in permafrost near longyearbyen, norway
eagles nest castle — hitler's mountain retreat in bavarian alps, built 1938-1939