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Definition of Nestings
1. nesting [n] - See also: nesting
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nestings
Literary usage of Nestings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1917)
"A STUDY OF SUBSEQUENT nestings AFTER THE LOSS OF THE FIRST.1 BY H. MOUSLEY.
Plates XIH-XIV. IT is the byways I imagine in any science we may take up, ..."
2. Michigan Bird Life: A List of All the Bird Species Known to Occur in the by Walter Bradford Barrows (1912)
"In several other cases large nestings are said to have been broken up by heavy
... During the years 1874 and 1876 there were immense nestings near Shelby, ..."
3. A History of the Game Birds, Wild-fowl and Shore Birds of Massachusetts and by Edward Howe Forbush, Willey Ingraham Beecroft, Herbert Keightley Job, Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture (1912)
"There were many smaller nestings for years after the Petoskey nesting of 1878,
... There seem to have been two great nestings in Michigan in 1881. ..."
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