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A real estate solution for birds who refuse to build their own homes.
means A small enclosed box, usually mounted outdoors, built to give birds a safe cavity in which to nest and raise their young.
from A straightforward compound of 'nest' (from an old Germanic root referring to a bird's bed, related to words across Germanic and even Latin for a place a creature settles down) and 'box' (from Latin 'buxus,' the boxwood tree once carved into small containers). The word itself is modern and plain-spoken — no myth to it, just humans noticing birds needed real estate and naming the fix exactly what it is.
- hole size
- determines which species can enter, down to the millimeter
- orientation
- faces away from prevailing wind, not toward pretty views
- cleaning
- needs yearly emptying or parasites move in with the chicks