bird-nesting

British  

noun

1. searching for birds' nests as a hobby, often to steal the eggs

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bird-nesting

He "didn't take school very seriously" and recalled playing truant one day with his friend - the headmaster's son - "to go bird-nesting".

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2023

They range, she said, from bird-nesting areas of less than an acre to expanses of more than 40 acres, where coyotes, eagles, otters and other land creatures gambol beneath bald eagles and red-tailed hawks.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 2, 2017

In the bird-nesting season, I climbed to positions in trees from which I could look down and watch birds building nests or nesting or feeding the nestlings.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 24, 2014

We must not now go a bird-nesting, but first time we do we shall put Bishop Mant's "Months" in our pocket.

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 by John Wilson

I wouldn't like to leave my purse in the way of a boy who went bird-nesting.

From Little Ferns For Fanny's Little Friends by Fanny Fern

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