🪹 The Wonders of Bird Engineering

A photo essay on the diversity and intricacy of avian architecture — from the Cape penduline tit's pear-shaped nest with a decoy chamber to fool predators, to the Liben lark's fragile breeding sites on Ethiopia's dwindling plains. Drawing on the Natural History Museum's vast nest and egg collection, it shows how nests serve as both homes and survival strategies — and, in the case of the echo parakeet, how studying them helped bring a species back from the brink.