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nest box
Sign in to saveAlso known as birdbox, birdhouse, bird box, nestbox, bird house
man-made enclosure for animals to nest in
Wikidata facts
- Material used
- wood
- Image
- Nistkasten mit Marderschutz.JPG
- Has use
- bird conservation
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- Commons gallery
- Birdhouse
- exact match
- wordnet-rdf.princeton.edu/wn30/02843684-n
- facet of
- bird conservation
- Commons category
- Nest boxes
- contains
- nest
- used by
- Chiroptera
- significant person
- August von Berlepsch
- has characteristic
- artificiality
- OpenStreetMap tag
- man_made=birdhouse
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Encyclopedic overview
Eastern bluebird at the entrance of a nest box
A nest box, also spelled nestbox, is a man-made enclosure provided for animals to nest in. Nest boxes are most frequently utilized for birds, in which case they are also called birdhouses or a birdbox/bird box, but some mammals such as bats may also use them. Placing nestboxes or roosting boxes may also be used to help maintain populations of particular species in an area.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “nest box” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.