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has been nesting

  • present perfect progressive
    of nest (3rd person singular).
    nest
    noun
    a pocketlike, usually more or less circular structure of twigs, grass, mud, etc., formed by a bird, often high in a tree, as a place in which to lay and incubate its eggs and rear its young; any protected place used by a bird for these purposes.