Is it possible to move a bird's nest without the mother abandoning the eggs?
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Nest-site fidelity grows during the nesting season--the more time and energy the birds invest in it, the less likely they are to abandon it when disturbed. However, actually MOVING the nest is not merely a disturbance--it makes the entire nest environment DIFFERENT.
Is this because birds know to abandon a nest that appears to have been discovered by a predator? This is a part of it, but actually moving the nest makes it appear like a different nest. As the mother builds, she is memorizing all the features around the nest. When those features are gone, she may simply not even recognize her nest anymore. (I took care of four baby Blue Jay nestlings, well feathered, after their nest and its branches were knocked out of a tree in a storm. The people who found it all recovered the nest and put it in another near-by tree, but even with the babies calling, they simply didn't figure it out, and they'd invested a LOT of time and energy into these babies already.)
Thus, the birds' fidelity is to the whole setting. Interestingly, there is a documented case of a robin that raised babies on the structure of a crane that was operational during the time she built, incubated, and raised her babies in it. And another case of a robin that nested in a train car, and followed it when it moved from place to place. But I can't find an instance of a robin staying with her nest when the nest was put on another structure.
It depend on the bird but so long as you do not touch the nest with your hands the nest should be transferable. If you touch it the mother may not approach it.
I'd say anything is possible, but this is extremely unlikely. If you don't want the eggs abandoned, just wait a few weeks if you can. Any attempt to move the next will have a very low chance of success in the eggs hatching.
almost impossible
if you move the nest she will also abandon the nest
Birds are very particulat about the exact position of their nest
so even if you move the nest ,eggs and all with out touching the eggs ,just because the nest is in another position ,she may abandon the lot ,
birds only have chicks in a nest for a couple of weeks ,why not ,just be patient and let them complete ,is that gonna change you life dramatically ?????????
NO! Your sent will be on the nest and the bird will not go anywhere near it. It has happen to me before I'm sad to say.
do not touch the nest. The mother will either abandon or kill its young.
if you touch the nest or try to move it the mother will abandon it period. if there are no eggs in the nest yet i say go ahead and get rid of it. if there are it will only be a matter of weeks before the chicks and mother move on.
no
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