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Nest, appears to be made out of mud and plant matter, about the size of an indoor soccer ball.
Seen on the Barcaldine Botanical Walk. The third shot shows the tree the nest was in. There was no visible animal activity around the nest when I was there, so I am guessing when I put it in the 'Birds' category. Could be insects?
Spotted on Apr 28, 2012
Submitted on Jun 10, 2012
20 Comments
Hahaha, I will definitely poke it with a stick next time, Argybee!!
No need there no rain or heavy rain... its their own lifestyle to collect food on trees and store only there..
I find Ant built nest on trees for protection. Their nest is mostly used as food warehouse than shelter.
Ashish might be on the right track with ants... but which one?
@Ashish this area is very dry - almost desert (lat 23) and I don't think there are any deciduous forests in Aus.
4-5 years... if it rains at all ... :) OK Shanna - in future you are authorised to touch something like that with stick if you must.
I think the rainfall there is very low.
In this area rain is also lasts 4-5 months..?
Here is one similar...
http://www.cape-york-australia.com/cape-...
Ashish - it was a dry forest, I don't really know what you'd call it, but there's lots of eucalypts, acacias, grevillias, etc. Argybee, I found some Crematogaster sp. sites but not really much on their nest-building activities. I don't really know what to search for though. (And I don't know what it felt like... as IF I'm touching that thing!) ; )
Here's an example of an insect doing this... http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/854...
size of a softball maybe.
Isn't it like something seen on this link...
http://blog.travelpod.com/travel-photo/j...
Ashish we don't seem to have Crematogaster in trees here.
Is this soft and partly silk?
Shanna is this nest located in deciduous and dry forest..?
yea i think so too.bit small holes for a bird
Look to be Ant nest. Its called Pagoda ant or Pagoda nest of Ants.
Thanks Mark, that's what I thought too but Liam says it doesn't appear to be a bird's nest... and I don't think he's ever wrong when it comes to birds! : )
birds nest, used dried grass and straws and mud.. but im not so sure what kind of bird it might belong to
Thanks Liam, I've changed the category to arthropods... I really have no idea what it might be though. It doesn't look like any sort of nest I've seen before.
Doesn't appear to be a bird's nest. I'd guess some sort of hornet or something.