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Description:

This nest was built inside a birdhouse. Besides the usual pine needles, grass and twigs, this nest also contained pieces of plastic grocery bags and a snake skin! I thought at first that maybe the snake came after the nest was built and then shed, but the bird clearly used the snake skin during construction because pieces of it are woven in.

Habitat:

Suburban back yard, wooden bird house mounted on a pole in open lawn area

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4 Comments

Ava T-B
Ava T-B 10 years ago

Jemma, I just looked through the "popular" spottings in the mission and there are so many amazing, interesting and beautiful spottings. Here's one of my favorites: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/770...

Hema  Shah
Hema Shah 10 years ago

Amazing fact!! Ava,this one is probably one of the most interesting spottings for your mission!!

Ava T-B
Ava T-B 10 years ago

It might be a Great Crested Flycatcher. As FaredinAliyevski says, they build a nest with snakeskin to deter predators, and they are cavity nesters.

FaredinAliyevski
FaredinAliyevski 10 years ago

This species were posted about a week ago. It's a flycatcher species that builds the nest using snake skin, check the link: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=...

DebLongLookabill
Spotted by
DebLongLookabill

Port St. Lucie, Florida, USA

Spotted on Apr 24, 2013
Submitted on Aug 20, 2013

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