Most Amazing Nests In The Animal Kingdom

From giant colonies in trees to some of the most expensive food on earth, here are 12 amazing nests in the animal kingdom. Follow us on instagram! https://www.instagram.com/katrinaexplained/ Subscribe For New Videos! http://goo.gl/UIzLeB Check out these videos you might like: Unbelievable Animals SAVING Other Animals! 🐯https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxehUWvMr38 LARGEST Animals Ever Discovered! 🐙https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yj7F_tPYsU Wild Animals That SAVED Human Lives! 🐻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mllqeVSsIl0 12. Horned Coot The horned coot (Fulica cornuta) is a large, dark avian species measuring up to two feet (0.61 meters) long, and is endemic to the Andes of South America. It's a rare bird, typically only found in certain lakes set high in the mountains, amid barren and rocky habitats. 11. Ruby-Throated Hummingbird Female ruby-throated hummingbirds (Archilochus colubris) begin building their nests after mating, at which point the male moves on with his life. This is unlike many other bird species, where males are often the sole nest-creators, or at least participate in the process. The species is also unusual because the female handles incubation and feeding chicks entirely on her own, with no help from the male. 10. Wasp Nests It’s not always great when you run into a wasp or a hornet’s nest. But if you look at it from a construction point of view, wasp nests are really impressive structures in nature. The American Museum of Natural History asked a curator to show off some of the specimens in the museum’s collection. 9. Gyrfalcon The gyrfalcon (Falco rusticolus) is a formidable predator and the world’s largest falcon species. They have the oldest raptor nests ever recorded!! They spend most of their time in the Arctic, rarely leaving the confines of the northern latitudes they call home and only traveling as far south as the Canadian border, and just during the winter so it’s pretty hard to see one!! 8. Weaver Weaver birds (Ploceidae) build some of the animal kingdom’s most impressive and intricate nests, and they can get the job done very fast, sometimes even completing an entire nest in just a day! A male bird will start a nest using a single, long blade of grass or a piece of leaf, which he skillfully ties into a knot around a twig using his beak, and constructs a circular structure from there using materials like twigs, roots, grass, and leaves. 7. Malleefowl The malleefowl (Leipoa ocellata) is not that big, but this Australian chicken-sized bird builds one of the world’s largest nesting mounds, with the biggest known example measuring 15 feet (4.6 meters) high and 35 feet (10.7 meters) across, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. On average, however, these mounds measure roughly 10 feet (3 meters) across, 3.3 feet (1 meter) deep, and are about two feet (0.6 meters) above ground level. Still, bigger than me!! 6. Cathedral Termite Termites are famous for their “skyscrapers”. They build the tallest non-human structures in the world (proportionately speaking)! They have amazing home-building capabilities. National Geographic reports that with a single specimen typically being much smaller than a human pinky nail, it’s incredible that in groups of a million or more, termites often build mounds as high as 17 feet (5 meters), moving up to 550 pounds (250 kg) of soil in a single year. 5. Hamerkop The hamerkop (Scopus umbretta) is an all-brown bird with a long, flat crest on its head, giving it a hammer-like appearance, hence its name. This species, which lives in a variety of habitats throughout sub-Saharan Africa and Madagascar, is also known for its massive, domed nests, which are the biggest of any avian species on the continent. 4. Black Kite Black kites (Milvus migrans) are a species of bird widely distributed throughout Europe. They’re known to build nests on trees, building ledges, and cliffs, often just feet apart from each other. Nests are primarily made from organic materials, like twigs and sticks, but when necessary, black kites get creative and improvise by incorporating man-made materials, namely garbage, in the form of plastic strips. 3. Edible-Nest Swiftlet Sometimes, the name says it all! Also called the white-nest swiftlet, the edible-nest swiftlet (Aerodramus fuciphagus) is a small bird endemic to Southeast Asia, which builds its cliffside nests out of solidified saliva. 2. European Bee-eater Also called the Eurasian or gold bee-eater, the European bee-eater (Merops apiaster) is a bright, multicolored bird that breeds throughout southern Europe and parts of north Africa and west Asia. 1. Bald Eagle The bald eagle is an iconic North American species that is commonly regarded as a symbol of freedom, courage, truth, wisdom, and other core values that the United States was founded upon. #amazing #nests #birds #animals #creatures #wildlife #structures #bird #originsexplained #top10