nidification
- a word derived from nidificate.
- a word derived from nidify.
Example Sentences
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Not the mere tap, tap, tap, in quest of insects, but the love-call drumming of the nidification season, nearly three months ahead of time.
From Some Winter Days in Iowa by Lazell, Frederick John
These facts strongly support Mr. Wallace’s view that with birds which are exposed to much danger during nidification, the transference of bright colours from the male to the female has been checked through natural selection.
From The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex Volume II (1st Edition) by Darwin, Charles
It has been remarked that every species of bird has a mode of nidification peculiar to itself, so that a p. 155schoolboy would at once pronounce on the sort of nest before him.
From The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2 by Morley, Henry
Their nidification differs little from that of the Teal.
From British Birds in their Haunts by Johns, Rev. C. A.
He had found four nests of the ruby-throat, but had seen no male about any of them after nidification was begun.
From The Foot-path Way by Torrey, Bradford
