Quiz: Can you match these birds to their nests? - December 18th

Much of the work here other than mist-netting involves looking for birds’ nests. For Melanie it is easy to tell which bird lives on which nest, but for the rest of us birding beginners, it isn’t always so obvious.


So, it being the last day of school in the real world, we’ve come up with a quiz. Can you match these birds to these nests, without peeking at the answers or asking an expert? (Answers will be posted Sunday 24 January.)

Good luck!

Nest A

Nest B

Nest C

Nest D

Nest E

Nest F

Nest G

Nest H

These are the birds which built the nests:

black robin

black-backed gull

blackbird

Chatham Island oystercatcher

Chatham Island warbler

dunnock

Chatham Island tomtit (female)

snipe

Answers tomorrow!