Twitter Thread: A Critical Ranking Of Bird Nesting Styles

This entertaining thread combines two of our favorite things: clever tweets and adorable birds. And thanks to Twitter user Ferris Jabr, we can now say that we know a great deal about bird nests - and have to wonder how pigeon eggs ever actually hatch. Happy scrolling!

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Bird nest - Ferris Jabr @ferrisjabr BIRD NESTING STYLES: A CRITICAL REVIEW American robin -Pragmatic -Tidy -Traditional values -Went to the same high school as Martha Stewart

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Plant pathology - Ferris Jabr @ferrisjabr Hummingbird -Perfectionist -Substance over scale -Dabbles in crystals and divination -Possible fairy ancestry 3:12 PM · 5/7/20 · Twitter Web App

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Plant pathology - Ferris Jabr @ferrisjabr Common tailorbird -Resourceful -Forward-thinker -Has sewn 3 million face masks -Into "primitive technology" before it was cool 3:13 PM · 5/7/20 · Twitter Web App

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Text - Ferris Jabr O @ferrisjabr Pigeon -Rejects the extravagances and hypocrisy of late-stage capitalism -Doesn't care what you think anyways -The only god is chaos

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Rock dove

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Bird - Ferris Jabr @ferrisjabr Kittiwake -Fearless -Thrill-seeker -Alex Honn-who? <>

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Organism - Ferris Jabr @ferrisjabr Sociable weaver -We are birb -You join birb -Soon, all will be birb

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Toucan - Ferris Jabr @ferrisjabr Toucan -O HAI! -The tree was like this when I found it -Do you like cereal? 3:18 PM - 5/7/20 · Twitter Web App

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Adaptation - Ferris Jabr @ferrisjabr Hammerkop -Close to 10,000 sticks -Can support a human's weight -It's not quite finished, though -What? Too much? 3:20 PM · 5/7/20 · Twitter Web App

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King penguin - Ferris Jabr @ferrisjabr Penguin -It's fine, I put some blubber on it 3:21 PM · 5/7/20 · Twitter Web App

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Bird - By popular demand: BIRD NESTING STYLES: A CRITICAL REVIEW - PART TWO White tern -This is it. This is the nest -A failure to recognize the fundamental impermanence of being is the source of all suffering -Taught Marie Kondo everything she knows O Otto Plantema

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Soil - Ferris Jabr @ferrisjabr Red ovenbird -Fond of turquoise -Will challenge you to a contest measured in Scoville heat units -Have you seen my prize-winning succulents? -Knows the One True Cornbread recipe

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Vegetation - Vogelkop bowerbird -Apprenticed (read: volunteered) at MOMA one summer -My favorite artist? You wouldn't know them -Actually, it's not a "nest"–it's an interactive sculptural platform that uses found objects and corporeal semiotics to interrogate the very essence of intimacy Tweet your reply

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Text - Ferris Jabr @ferrisjabr Killdeer -These are not the eggs you're looking for -These are rocks -When I snap my feathers the thought of eating eggs will permanently repulse you

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Adaptation - Ferris Jabr @ferrisjabr Сot -Just keep piling -Of course it will float -Swore an oath to never set foot on the mainland again -No man is an island-but birb will be

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Adaptation - Ferris Jabr @ferrisjabr Emu -Did you just look at me? -Did you? -Look at me -LOOK at me! -HOW DARE YOU!

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Organism - Ferris Jabr @ferrisjabr Potoo -Clear your mind -Lift your eyes to the heavens -Visualize yourself as the branch -You are the branch noW © L.P. Schisler/VIREO 12:51 PM · 5/8/20 · Twitter Web App <>

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Adaptation - Penduline tit -Compulsive knitter -Seeks the fabled Highest Thread Count -Do you want to feel like you've fallen asleep on a sea of clouds in the arms of a marshmallow angel? J. Sierra/VIREO

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Flowerpot - Ferris Jabr @ferrisjabr This duck -Try me 12:52 PM · 5/8/20 · Twitter Web App >

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