STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING IN ACTION

Whether you're a "bird person" or not, this is stunning!!!  Not to detract from the sheer magic of it, but in practical terms, how many trips would a bird have to make with that tiny little quantity of mud/clay it could carry? (and how far from the nest is the source?)

If you take the construction of a "circular bowl" in your stride as instinctive – how the heck does the bird come up with the windbreak/entrance design that shields the eggs/chicks from the elements – and at what point in fashioning the bowl do they start to construct it?

 

 

 

 

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