By now you’ve all had a chance to read Bernd Heinrich’s wonderful story in our winter issue on identifying bird’s nests. You have read the story, right?
Put your newfound skills to work here and tell us what bird made this nest.
Answer
Red-eyed vireo
According to naturalist Bernd Heinrich, red-eyed vireos build their nests at any height but always in a deciduous tree. Their nests can be found in both forest and edge habitat. The nest is always a hanging cup suspended along its edges from a thin, horizontal, forked branch. It is a neat, tidy, compact structure that will have bits of birch bark, and usually also wasp paper, decorating the outside. The inside cup diameter of a vireo nest is 2 inches.
This week’s contest winner was Barbara Rzasa of Seymour, Connecticut