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It comes to its nesting-places and departs with almost almanac-like regularity.

The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

The hearthstone was still soiled with the last cold ashes, and leaves had been blown into corners and silted there into nesting-places for the hibernating hedge-pig and the dormouse.

The Potter's Field Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1989

Soon they came to the nesting-places, high up beyond the reach of any stormy waves.

The Adventurous Four Again Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1973

Nothing is positively known, except that the travellers are in search of food or quiet nesting-places, when they move from land to land.

Chatterbox, 1905. Various

"Stacks," or the "Boars of Duncansbay," their sides and summits being only accessible to birds, and forming safe resting and nesting-places for them, and on the top of the highest stack the golden-coloured eagles had for ages reared their young.

From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor

It's the love they have for their homes that makes 'em fly from any distance straight to their nesting-places.

Chico: the Story of a Homing Pigeon Lucy M. Blanchard

This old chieftain determined to watch the birds, and find out their nesting-places; so he had a series of towers built, in which the watchmen could sleep securely by night.

Welsh Fairy-Tales and Other Stories P. H. [Editor] Emerson

The game birds have disappeared either because they have been killed in great numbers or because their nesting-places have been destroyed.

Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation Mary Huston Gregory

At length, by watching, their nesting-places were found in a sandy plain, and it was discovered that those monstrous birds stole sheep and cattle in great numbers.

Welsh Fairy-Tales and Other Stories P. H. [Editor] Emerson

When a bee-tree is to be robbed, great piles of a certain plant or weed are collected and put in such a position that the smoke will be carried against the nesting-places of the swarms.

Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania Jewett Castello Gilson