“I feel like when we draw illustrations and show nests to kids, we show the most beautiful, sort of prototypical nest,” Sheard says. “But actually birds will do a lot of very strange things ...

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“I feel like when we draw illustrations and show nests to kids, we show the most beautiful, sort of prototypical nest,” Sheard says. “But actually birds will do a lot of very strange things ...

"I feel like when we draw illustrations and show nests to kids, we show the most beautiful, sort of prototypical nest," Sheard says. "But actually birds will do a lot of very strange things ...