Show BIGGEST BIRDS BIRD'S S NEST The biggest birds bird's nest In the world not excepting tho the storks stork's Is built by bythe bythe bythe the African grosbeak It Is really a hundred nests or more bound together with closely Interwoven sticks vines and strands of coarse grass and Is not built bunt by a single pair of birds but by bya byI I a a. colony of them It is of such enormous enormous enor enor- size that at a little distance It ItIs itIs itis Is often mistaken mistaken for one of the native native na na- tive huts built bunt in the trees so frequently frequent frequent- ly Iy found In wild tropical countries where man man eating eating animals abound and the only way to sleep In safety Is to roost high The Tho birds usually select a thorn thorn- tree probably because of the protection protection tion afforded by the tho sh sharp rp long thorns against marauders All around then the tho n nest st the roof of sticks thatched with dried grass projects to let the tho rain run off A deep fringe of grass hangs from this cornice ornice like a curtain to keep out any stray drops These great nests nesta are added to from year to year ear each pair of mated birds building on the main nest Sometimes the nest bo- bo comes too too heavy and the branch breaks or the great mass of sticks ticks falls to the ground destroyed by Its ts own weight The grosbeak Is no larger larg largo er than an English sparrow and Just Justas as gregarious 1 |