Nest

Nest, a place or structure where birds deposit their eggs and rear their young. Nests vary greatly in character, from the mere depression in the ground of gulls and sandpipers to the dome-shaped, felted structure of the bottle-tit. The term is also applied to the breeding-places of some reptiles and fishes [see cut under Acanthoptery-GIAn], and to the dwellings of ants, wasps, and wild bees. Less properly it is used for the dray of the squirrel and the shelter of the orang-utan.