There is a swallow’s nest outside right now with like 6 babies in it that barely fit and no room in sight for the parents. Do the parents sleep there too somehow or somewhere else?
A few years ago I saw the same with a robin’s nest and in that case, when the babies got bigger but before they could fully fly, they all moved into a nearby shrub but could only glide and hop.
Was that unusual or common to have a nest too small to hold the whole breed and parents?
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Birds don’t sleep in nests, although a brooding mother might at times. Nests are only to keep the eggs protected, and it takes a lot of effort to collect materials and build them.
If you had to build furniture using only your mouth, it’d probably be only as large as you absolutely needed it to be, and you’d sleep on the floor instead of in a bed.
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