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Steely-vented hummingbird, red-rumped cacique, wallace's fairy wren, streaky-breasted spiderhunter ... enigmatic names or terms, familiar only to ornithologists. This book is about the nests of these and many other bird species, the bizarre, incredibly fragile, interlaced creations cemented together with grass, clay, leaves and a variety of other materials that birds assemble to lay their eggs, incubate and raise their offspring. Karen Weinert's pictures combine artistic and documentary photography, natura

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Steely-vented hummingbird, red-rumped cacique, wallace's fairy wren, streaky-breasted spiderhunter ... enigmatic names or terms, familiar only to ornithologists. This book is about the nests of these and many other bird species, the bizarre, incredibly fragile, interlaced creations cemented together with grass, clay, leaves and a variety of other materials that birds assemble to lay their eggs, incubate and raise their offspring. Karen Weinert's pictures combine artistic and documentary photography, natura

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