nest box

British  

noun

1. a box in a henhouse in which domestic chickens lay eggs

2. a box designed as a nesting place for wild birds and positioned in a garden, park, or reserve to encourage them to breed there

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Example Sentences

Built-in nest boxes with glass walls on the inside let Mr. Nicolson spy on their interiors, but his larger hope is that the whole hexagonal structure will be a kind of human nest box whose porous borders allow him to incubate a new awareness of the natural world.

From The Wall Street Journal

Dr Hurley recommended the building managers put in a nest box - which they agreed to do - and the following year three chicks were born.

From BBC

Her lovingly sly Haydn-esque wit came out in the premiere of “Nest Box,” a duo for her and Wu Wei on sheng, the Chinese mouth organ.

From Los Angeles Times

The gesture was performed more often by the female birds, after which the male usually entered the nest box, regardless of which had arrived first.

From Science Daily

When a mating pair arrives at their nest box with food, they will wait outside on perches.

From Science Daily