Nest Collection (page 7)

Sand Martins - quarrel over nest holes in a sand wall of a ravine near river Bolshoi Ugan (Riparia riparia). near Ugut settlement; Uganskii Nature reserve, Siberia, Russia; spring

Nest of Black-tailed Godwit - one egg is hatching (Limosa limosa). marsh near river Bolshoi Ugan, near Ugut settlement; Uganskii Nature reserve, Siberia, Russia; spring

Acacia Ants - Whistling Thorn and Stinging Ants, on Acacia Gall Plant (Acacia drepanolobiun)

Termite Mounds
TERMITE MOUNDS. Australia

Red Panda / Lesser Panda / Red Cat-bear Nest

Asiatic Black Bear - young. Japanese sub species (Selenarctos thibetanus japonicus). Gunma Prefecture, Kanto Region on Honshu Island, Japan

PEREGRINE FALCON - feeding chicks on nest, typical nest on river rocks (Falco peregrinus Faolco peregrinnus). Taimyr, Russian Arctic

Red-Breasted GOOSE - chicks on nest on riverbank (Branta ruficollis). Taimyr, Russian Arctic, Europe

RED-BREASTED GOOSE - and chicks on nest (Branta ruficollis). Riverbank in Taimyr, Russian Arctic

Red-breasted Goose - on nest at riverbank (Branta ruficollis). Taimyr near Kara Sea - Russian Arctic

Horned / Shore Lark - fledgling juvenile (Eremophila alpestris). July - Taimyr tundra - near Dickson - Russian Arctic

RINGED PLOVER - typical nest in a pebble beach (Charadrius hiaticula ). Taimyr, Russian Arctic

Pacific Golden PLOVER - nest with eggs (Pluvialis fulva). Tundra, Taimyr Peninsula, Russian Arctic

Siberian Lemming muzzle adult at the entrance of a burrow. Front teeth are visible. (Lemmus sibiricus ). tundra near Dikson, Russian Arctic. Summer, August

Siberian Lemming - adult at the entrance of its burrow. (Lemmus sibiricus ). tundra near Dikson, Russian Arctic. Summer, August

Rough-legged Buzzard - young at the nest threatening a visitor - very close to leaving the nest. (Buteo lagopus). nest in low rocks in tundra near Dikson, Russian Arctic. Summer, August

Rough-legged Buzzards - young at the nest - very close to leaving the nest. (Buteo lagopus). nest in low rocks in tundra near Dikson, Russian Arctic. Summer, August

Black-faced Spoonbill - adults with young (Platalea minor)

Black-faced Spoonbill - adult at nest with young (Platalea minor)

Chinese egret - nesting colony on cliff top (Egretta eulophotes)

Rustic Bunting - nestlings (Emberiza rustica)

Stork Nest Turckheim Alsace
A stork nesting on a platform erected over the Porte de la France entering Turckheim, a town in the Gewurztraminer wine region west of Colmar in Alsace

Boys of the 10th Calgary Scout Troop, Canada, fixing up home-made nest boxes in a tree

A hive of wasps Source: The zoological miscellany: being descriptions of new or interesting animals by Leach, William Elford, 1790-1836. Published by Nodder, Richard P. illustrator, engraver. E

Out of Doors -- children looking at wrens nest
Out of Doors -- three children with their father take it in turns to look at a wrens nest in a hedge. Date: 19th century

Out of Doors -- two girls in a field, looking at the nest of a harvest mouse. Date: 19th century

Chocolate box design, bird with nest of eggs
Chocolate box design, featuring a bird at various stages, with a nest of eggs, then bringing a worm for three hatched chicks. Date: 20th century

Moldova - Old barn, well and storks
Moldova - a family of storks have nested on the top of a steep-roofed delapidated farm barn, next to a lever well. Date: circa 1920s

Chocolate box design, Superfine Chocolates
Chocolate box design, an almond shape in gold for Superfine Chocolates, with two birds and their nest above. Date: 20th century

Gentoo Penguin and Young
Gentoo Penguins on Peterman Island - Graham Land - Antarctica Date: 2005

Charlotte Mary Yonge 1
CHARLOTTE MARY YONGE writer, author of The heir of Redclyffe, The little duke, The daisy chain, The dove in the eagles nest and many more. Date: 1823 - 1901

Charlotte Mary Yonge 2
CHARLOTTE MARY YONGE writer, author of The heir of Redclyffe, The little duke, The daisy chain, The dove in the eagles nest and many more. Date: 1823 - 1901

Birds Nest and Hawthorn (1869). Sherrin, John 1819 - 1896. Date: 1869

Eagles Nest, Killarney. Petrie, George 1790 - 1866

Porte de la France - Turckheim, Colmar, Alsace, France
Porte de la France (Porte d entree Ouest) entering Turckheim, a town in the Gewurztraminer wine region west of Colmar in Alsace - note the stork nest/platform on the top! Date: circa 1910s

Albania - Vlore - Plaza del Comando - Minaret and Stork
Albania - Vlore - Plaza del Comando - Minaret (under repair) with a (lucky) Stork taking up residence at the top. Date: 1917

Twins in a Christmas basket
" A Merry Christmas" Twins in a Christmas basket - one of whom is not enjoying the experience... Date: 1906

Guillemots - Carroll Island - Washington State
Colony of Common Murres or Common Guillemots on Carroll Island, Washington State, USA. Date: circa 1907

Battered old boot-shaped Christmas card with blue tits and snow. Date: circa 1890s

Roses, engraved by Earlom after Robert John Thornton, in a book entitled The Temple of Flora by Dr Robert John Thornton (1768-1837). The book was published between 1799 and 1807. Date: 1805

Cukoo and host eggs
From the collection of ornithologist Edgar Percival Chance (1881 - 1955)

Humming bird nest
A humming bird nest collected by Captain Cook 1st voyage in Rio de Janiero

Wasp nest in a bowler hat
This bowler hat containing a wasp nest was found in an outhouse on the estate of Walter Rothschild in Tring. The nest was built by the common wasp (Vespula vulgaris)

Phoenicurus phoenicurus, common redstart nest and eggs
Plate 54 from James Boltons third edition of Harmonia Ruralis: or an essay towards a natural history of British Song Birds, Vol.2, (1845)

Aulacorhamphus prasinus, emerald toucanet
Plate 47, hand coloured lithograph by John Gould and Henry Constantine Richter from John Goulds A Monograph of the Ramphastid, or family of Toucans, 2nd edition, (1854)

Unidientified sunbird nest
Plate 64, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, from the Loten Collection of coloured drawings of Birds, Mammals, Insects & Plants, (1754-57)

Ardea purpurea, purple heron
Plate 21 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 4 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Regulus regulus, goldcrest
Plate from Paul Jerrards Gems for the Drawing Room:(British) Birds (1852). Hand coloured lithograph

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