nest
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The Seal Beach nest, located near the Surfside community, was adjacent to an area where sand berms are planned for the coming winter storms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
They are normally found throughout tropical regions of the Pacific, Indian and Atlantic oceans, and usually nest along the coasts of Mexico, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
“My real nest egg is the house I have,” said Hislop, who owns her Battle Creek home outright.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Beekeepers who feared a damaging new arrival of Asian hornets in the Greater Manchester area helped track down their nest after sightings sparked an urgent search.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
One nest plopped to the floor, and a pixie emerged from it sleepily.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
The Orange County turtle nests are several hundred miles farther north than the turtles have ever been seen nesting before.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
The nests, which appeared Sept. 16 in Seal Beach and Sept. 19 in Huntington Beach, are the first known naturally-occurring sea turtle nests on the U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
Similar effects can be found in plant tissues and even in the foamy protective nests made by some frogs.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026
He said the target was to double the number of narrow-headed ant nests from 200 to more than 400 at Chudleigh Knighton Heath.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
You could hear the hedgehogs scrabbling into their nests.
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
Below, on a plain white plate, sat the actual dish: shrimp nested in crisp cups.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
Having nested together for eight years, Jackie and Shadow raised numerous chicks and bonded by restoring their nest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
The reserve has an osprey platform to attract the raptors and the adults who have nested there are also believed to be first-time parents.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
The small seabirds have nested on the beach at Seaton Carew, near Hartlepool, every year since 2019.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026
The problem with this view was that it meant abandoning the idea that the universe was created out of nested spheres—a high price to pay, and one that few were prepared to contemplate.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Sea turtles have been sighted laying eggs on the sand in Huntington Beach — the first known instance of a sea turtle of any species spontaneously nesting on the U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
They also tend to return to the same nesting sites year after year.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
She said: "He found a little hedgehog in need of care and we got talking, so the upshot was that I gave them the templates for both nesting and feeding boxes."
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
"It will be terrible for some of the birds, seabirds that are nesting here that are quite endangered."
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
A year ago we watched them nesting; the young ones grew up too.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
