nest boxes
Homes for birds
Nest boxes are artificial enclosures designed to provide nesting sites for birds, typically mounted on trees, poles, or buildings.
They substitute for natural cavities in areas where hollow trees are scarce: We installed nest boxes to attract bluebirds.
Different species require different entrance hole sizes and box dimensions.
Also called birdhouses, though nest boxes often implies a more utilitarian design for conservation rather than decoration.
- birdhouseMounted shelter for songbirds
- breedingReproductive cultivation of organisms
- hatchlingsRecently emerged young animals
- dovecoteStructure housing domesticated birds
- entrance holeOpening for entering
baby birds · enclosures · hollows · aviculture · cavities · screech owl · birding · bird watching · habitat preservation · barn owls · conservationist · wildlife habitat · habitat · incubation · twigs · eggs · tree · chicks
- ornithologyornithology, ornithologist, birding, bird watching, bird species
- bird keepingbird cage, birdcages, bird food, birdseed, parakeet
- chicken coopschicken coop, coop, henhouse, roost, perch
- habitat creationhabitat restoration, bat houses, bee hotels, insect hotels, native plantings
- poultry housingcoops, roosts, perches, chicken run, runs
- raptor habitatsaeries, eyries, cliff face, cliffs, cliff faces
nest boxestree hollows
Cavities in trunk wood
woodpecker holes · rock crevices · hollow logs · burrows · dense vegetation
box, nest, boxes, boxed, nests, nesting, nestling, nested, boxy