nesters
Birds constructing dwellings
Nesters is the plural of nester—someone who nests or makes a home.
In the American West, nesters were settlers who established small farms on open range, often clashing with cattle ranchers over land use: The ranchers ran the nesters off their claims.
More generally, nesters are people settling into domestic life: empty nesters are parents whose children have left home.
Reproductive cells in shells
- incubationDevelopment before emergence
- chicksNewly hatched birds
- broodHatchlings as a group
- fledglingsYoung birds with feathers
clutch · hatchlings · mate · courtship · pairing · offspring · laying · reproduction
Those managing domestic affairs
- homebodiesPeople preferring domestic life
- settlersThose who establish homes
- householdersPeople occupying residences
- familyRelated people together
newlyweds · couples · suburban · household · homesteading · cohabiting · domestic · residents
eggs
Reproductive cells in shells
- incubationDevelopment before emergence
- chicksNewly hatched birds
- broodHatchlings as a group
fledglings · clutch · hatchlings · mate · courtship · pairing · offspring · laying · reproduction · nurturing
homemakers
Those managing domestic affairs
- homebodiesPeople preferring domestic life
- settlersThose who establish homes
- householdersPeople occupying residences
family · newlyweds · couples · suburban · household · homesteading · cohabiting · domestic · residents · dwelling
aviary
Large enclosure for birds
- ornithologyScientific study of birds
- flockAnimals gathered together
- speciesFinest taxonomic rank
feathers · beak · talons · roosting · chirping · songbirds · perching · wingbeat · plumage · migration
burrow
Animal's dug dwelling
roost · aerie · warren · hive · lodge · rookery · hideaway · refuge · sanctuary · ledge
- frontier Americapioneers, settlers, homesteaders, homesteading, sodbusters
nestersmigrants
People who move elsewhere
migratory birds · migrators · wanderers · nomads · transients
- empty nesterParent whose children left
- nested menus
- nested boxesContainers that fit inside one another