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Sent in by:
Madison of OH

Be glad you don't have to build it with your beak!
Materials

Materials Needed


  • mud
  • straw
  • grass
  • twigs
  • string
  • sticks
  • eggs (you can also use hard-boiled eggs)
  • 3 rulers or yardsticks
  • tape

Instructions

Instructions


  1. Check with a grown-up before you begin.
  2. Using mud, straw, grass, twigs, sticks and string, try to build the strongest nest you can.
  3. Test out your nest by placing it in a low branch of a tree, or you can tape 3 rulers or yardsticks together into a triangle to simulate a tree branch. Place hard-boiled eggs in it. How many can it hold?


How can you make your nest even stronger? What other materials could you use to make your nest? Experiment and be sure to send us your results so we can share them with other ZOOMscientists.

Some of your Results

Caprice, age 8 of MT wrote:
it fell apart when I first did it. But it worked the second time I did it.

Keijuan, age 9 of LA wrote:
I sat it outside and a bird went in.

Cambria, age 6 of CA wrote:
I got a nest and the bird hatched it and inside the egg was a baby bird.

Nikki, age 13 of Warwick, RI wrote:
they onlnly slepped in it one night. one came back the next night and it was a red robben.

Brianna, age 12 of Lewiston, ME wrote:
Yellow finches came and layed eggs.

Brenda, age 14 of Des Plaines, IL wrote:
I had a storm over the summer. And the storm did some damages. And destroyed a bird nest. I build a bird nest.

Travis, age 12 of Eugowra wrote:
it was fun and two birds came and nested and about a month later thjere was babbies

Mckenna, age 8 of Pleasent Grove, AL wrote:
it was amazing there 20 robin's eggs it was the most wonderful scene ever. I even got to see them hatch it was truly amazing.

Anne, age 12 of Bristol, England wrote:
It was so... cool. But it went really messy. It was pretty fun

Emily, age 8 of AZ wrote:
I saw a bird nest with a new born bird.

Kelsey, age 12 of Ottumwa, IA wrote:
It was so fun. The first thing I did was got twigs and mud.

Joselinn, age 10 of Rogers, AR wrote:
A bird came and laid it's egg there!

Francis, age 6 of Shirley, NY wrote:
At first, the nest fell apart on the ground. Then, we used glue to hold some parts together. We placed it in a tree and two new birds came!! It was so much fun.

Dulcey, age 8 of Pocatello wrote:
it was messy.

Rayven, age 8 of Milton wrote:
Alot of bids came mostly woodpeckers. It was machanical bird nest covered in sticks and dust IT WAS AWSOME how many birds came

Tracey, age 10 of Miami, FL wrote:
that was so cooooooooooooooooooooooool.

Adam, age 10 of Linwood, NJ wrote:
i built it and put it in a tree alot of birds built nests around that one and know it is a pufect habitat

Josephine, age 7 of Phoenix wrote:
When I did it so butiful it was amazing to see the seen.

Jennifer, age 9 of Newark, OH wrote:
it normaly fell down so I kept on making it bigger.

Anna of Seminole, FL wrote:
we got all kinds of birds. thanks

Gabriella, age 9 of Las Vegas, NV wrote:
i found out by building a home for the bird{s}. you save them from being endangered or extinct. try it at home!!!

Aimee, age 11 of Covington, LA wrote:
None of the birds got in the bird nest.

Naomie of MI wrote:
it calpst

Katrina, age 12 of Inver Grove, MN wrote:
It was so awsome I put it in all of my birds cages(i have twelve birds) and they had a hole lot of babies in them my birds really like them thank you zoom kids it really helped my birds(now I have 16 birds thank you to all of you kids at zoom)

Megan, age 6 of New York City, NY wrote:
We tried to make a nest but it fell apart.

Blake, age 11 of Boston, MA wrote:
A mom and a dad came in and had three babys they where so cute.

Kiana, age 6 of Quebec wrote:
It broke because of all the sticks were loose.

Christian, age 10 of Mesa, AZ wrote:
A bird was passing through and he came in the nests.

Brook, age 9 of London, ON wrote:
I made it and put it out side and now birds live in it.

Henry, age 8 of California wrote:
I made a bird nestr and I saw a hawk in it it was the best moment ever I saw the babbies they were so cute.


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