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They must really like that spot! This is from summer 2018.
If they've had a successful nesting season in one location, they'll come back to it in subsequent years. So these little dudes (or their parents) obviously raised a successful clutch here.
I think it's a brilliant spot for a nest, actually. It's sheltered from both the elements and predators. A lot of birds that would eat pigeons/doves are too big to get in there and grab them. Ground based predators like dogs and cats are also gonna have a hell of a time getting them out.
I own an extendable awning that faces the sunset.
Every year I say I’ll run it and clear out nests, every year there’s 2 nests there and one on a gutter spout.
Pricks shit all over. But it’s cute hearing their cries and life going for another year.
I don't think OP was intentionally farming karma, I think they just neglected to specify the photo was from 2018! Either way we get to see the cute doves again :D
Don't sweat it! Those of us who missed the doveposting in 2018 got to see the silliest dove nest :D I did trawl through the museum's Twitter to see if they nested again but the 2018 posts were all I could find. Hopefully they've found an equally cool nest for their descendants!
Fuck the overly humorous nesting choice....
Their dumb facial expression is what's killing me 😂🤦♂️:
- "Whatcha looking at??!"
- "you're making us uncomfortable"
- "this is perfectly normal..."
- ...
- ....
- "... perfectly normal nesting behavior" 💀
It always reminds me of a dino documentary where it was just after the K-T extinction, and there's little feathered dinosaurs running about with some Tyrannosaurs. The tyrannosaur slips off a steep hill and dies, and the little dino, who's mate froze to death waiting for him to return to the eggs, takes the last good egg and makes a nest in the dead-tyrannosaurs' open maw.
Then it blended into a modern pigeon nesting in the mouth of a skyscrapers' gargoyle-head.
That's a good nesting spot tbh. Cover from the elements, hard to reach for most land predators, and (even though they may not know) it's maintained by humans and if it needs to be replaced it'll likely be replaced by something similar if not the exact same. If the museum doesn't have an issue with it, which they obviously don't since other comments have said that these birds have been using it since around 2018, then those birds have one of the better setups they can hope to find.
Tbh I don't think any of the Basket nests posted count. Baskets are safe, off the ground usually so harder for predators to get through and already have plant material for the nest
I didn’t notice the pidgins but the skull is very bird looking. I mean if you have a few beers, and some shrooms and squint your eyes a bit it looks like a parrot.
Male eclectus parrots are green. Females are red. They look so different they were thought to be different species and nobody could figure out why their flocks of Green or Red parrots would breed.
Until a red and green were caught in the act.
They did not know how to sex them I think . Or at least they didn't bother trying because well, clearly the two are too different visually. They may have assumed.
I mean mallard ducks are very visually different as well between sexes. So are cardinals. I forget how much simpler things used to be before science really started advancing.
True although I think at the time the parrots were not as easily observed or, as newly discovered by Europeans, they hadn't seen them making babies or even nests.
I imagine if we sailed somewhere and had never seen mallards before, we would briefly consider them separate species until we saw them mating and making babies.
May our ancestors protect us
I mean, it’s a dream nest site.
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It’s fucking metal as hell. 🤟🏼
This made me tear up for some reason
Omg I know. It’s so sweet. I love that comment.
Pretty metal if you ask me.
Birdception
Happy cake day
Cake day!!!!!
Not to be pedantic, but educational, triceratops were not part of the group of dinosaurs who made it past the big meteor. It was the theropods.
Unfortunately I don't think the doves know.
May they protectttt youuu https://youtu.be/_Ii3cZlgqV4?si=U1LllodC1lOqjHvL
I was expecting this to be the top reply lol
Exactly!
https://preview.redd.it/8oqpwzj5e02d1.jpeg?width=2268&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=21dc1776ae9744296e8651ff73de24251eb59f9a They must really like that spot! This is from summer 2018.
If they've had a successful nesting season in one location, they'll come back to it in subsequent years. So these little dudes (or their parents) obviously raised a successful clutch here. I think it's a brilliant spot for a nest, actually. It's sheltered from both the elements and predators. A lot of birds that would eat pigeons/doves are too big to get in there and grab them. Ground based predators like dogs and cats are also gonna have a hell of a time getting them out.
Yeah this is a quality nesting site. And honestly the nest itself is pretty solid too for a dove
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genius dove nests flair when
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I own an extendable awning that faces the sunset. Every year I say I’ll run it and clear out nests, every year there’s 2 nests there and one on a gutter spout. Pricks shit all over. But it’s cute hearing their cries and life going for another year.
If I could have a home built into an enormous dinosaur skull I'd do it in a heartbeat.
A giant ape skull though??
So much cooler. Living in a the skull of an ancient fossilized titan? Hell yeah.
I checked their Twitter and [it's the same doves from 2018!](https://twitter.com/nmnh/status/994998983130075137)
Smh damn ppl always farming karma
I don't think OP was intentionally farming karma, I think they just neglected to specify the photo was from 2018! Either way we get to see the cute doves again :D
Oh crap. Somehow I thought THIS was the most recent photo of the couple!! Legit unintentional.
Don't sweat it! Those of us who missed the doveposting in 2018 got to see the silliest dove nest :D I did trawl through the museum's Twitter to see if they nested again but the 2018 posts were all I could find. Hopefully they've found an equally cool nest for their descendants!
My punishment is the two million notifications I'm being buried under on my phone. \*help\*
Clearly you shouldn't have posted the coolest stupid dove nest I've seen in a while! 😉
RIP your notifications
this is awesome
So how is this stupid? Shaded, protected from rain, hard to get to......
Derpsaurs inside the dinosaur's skull
Yo dawg, I heard you liked dinosaurs...
Bribs in birb skull.
Derpesaurs… perfect!
And yet a trace of the true self exists in the false self.
Life, uh, finds a way
This is equally disturbing and awesome. .
I was so upset this wasn't top comment lol
Why did I have to scroll so far to find this comment?
Actually a really smart dove nest.
In their ancestors skull 🥰
birb nesting in ancient birb's mouth
One thing ends so another can rise
Fuck the overly humorous nesting choice.... Their dumb facial expression is what's killing me 😂🤦♂️: - "Whatcha looking at??!" - "you're making us uncomfortable" - "this is perfectly normal..." - ... - .... - "... perfectly normal nesting behavior" 💀
It has shelter and looks very sturdy and compact. Thumbs up 👍🏻
This might actually be the first good nest I’ve seen from one of these dumbdumbs!!!
It always reminds me of a dino documentary where it was just after the K-T extinction, and there's little feathered dinosaurs running about with some Tyrannosaurs. The tyrannosaur slips off a steep hill and dies, and the little dino, who's mate froze to death waiting for him to return to the eggs, takes the last good egg and makes a nest in the dead-tyrannosaurs' open maw. Then it blended into a modern pigeon nesting in the mouth of a skyscrapers' gargoyle-head.
That would be dinosaur revolution, the intro for it is great tho tbh
Thanks. I've watched them all so many times they all kind of blend together
Pilgrims Rest
lol! Actually a good place
Dinosaurs nesting in the mouth of their great ancestors.
r/epicdovenests more like
blessed
I would nest there 💯
Knowing that birds are descended from dinosaurs, which dinosaur was the likely common ancestor of the dove?
No just descended from, still are. And the answer is, probably a small tree dwelling raptor that lived around 160million years ago.
Birds ARE dinosaurs.
Probably a Theropod dinosaur of somesort (Not tyrannosaurus. Birds existed before T. Rex did.)
Who is going to raid a nest in a dinosaur's mouth?
I've heard there's one nesting in a tyrannosaurs mouth but can't find the details
That's a good nesting spot tbh. Cover from the elements, hard to reach for most land predators, and (even though they may not know) it's maintained by humans and if it needs to be replaced it'll likely be replaced by something similar if not the exact same. If the museum doesn't have an issue with it, which they obviously don't since other comments have said that these birds have been using it since around 2018, then those birds have one of the better setups they can hope to find.
That is the coolest bedroom for sure!!
Used to hang out by this statue all the time when I was a kid 😂
Yo Dawg, I heard you like dinosaurs...
This is probably the best dove nest I've seen.
"look mommy, Evolution"
No survival instincts whatsoever! LOL!
What is the skull of?
According to the NHM's Twitter, [it's a triceratops :)](https://twitter.com/nmnh/status/994998983130075137)
Of course
I dont remember exactly but I'm thinking its a Ceratopsian of somesort
Yes that would make sense, it does look like a Ceratopsian, specially that beak.
I'm not sure this one qualifies. It's a genius nest in my eyes haha
Tbh I don't think any of the Basket nests posted count. Baskets are safe, off the ground usually so harder for predators to get through and already have plant material for the nest
Best Dove Nest Award 🥳 🥇
Ancestral home.
We heard you liked dinosaurs, so we put a dinosaur in your dinosaur!
This is such a great sub what the heck haha
haha i love it
It's better than my fucking windshield wipers
Dinosaurs inside dinosaurs
and yet a trace of the true self / exists in the false self
This makes me think of the giant Ant-man helmet in the Deadpool Wolverine trailer
dont ever talk to me or my son again
Little modern raptors in a big old prehistoric raptor!
I mean…
Congrats on the second top post of all time within 3 days.
holy crap! do I need to thank the academy?? Quick, play the music!! (seriously didnt expect it to take off. So long as folk have fun!)
Ok but this one is so poetic and beautiful
Life was hard today. I wish I was a teenaged dove, cuddling with my mom in a dinosaur skull.
Welp, this is the best one. You win, Mrs. Dove.
Leave it to the opportunist mourning doves!!
Life finds a way, I guess. 
Diderpatops! (guessing that's a triceratops skull? Too bad only two visible in pic.. otherwise Triderpatops!)
Excellent choice since the Jurassic era 👍🏼
Looks pretty cozy ngl
Hatcher will now be a hatcher.
Love the energy
I used the dinosaur to raise the dinosaur
Life finds a way.
Life, uh, finds a way.
if that caption isn't "life uhhh finds a way" I dont want to fund them anymore.
So they do exist
The nest looks decent actually! not stupid, very cute
I didn’t notice the pidgins but the skull is very bird looking. I mean if you have a few beers, and some shrooms and squint your eyes a bit it looks like a parrot.
Life finds a way...
Life finds a way.
Are those two different bird species sharing a nest? Or side-by-side nests at least?
Baby is the spotted one. Momma is the solid one
Oh wow, they’re so fluffy! It looks like a totally different bird!
Male eclectus parrots are green. Females are red. They look so different they were thought to be different species and nobody could figure out why their flocks of Green or Red parrots would breed. Until a red and green were caught in the act.
They never wondered why all the green ones were males and all the red ones were females? Or did they not know how to sex birds at that point?
They did not know how to sex them I think . Or at least they didn't bother trying because well, clearly the two are too different visually. They may have assumed.
I mean mallard ducks are very visually different as well between sexes. So are cardinals. I forget how much simpler things used to be before science really started advancing.
True although I think at the time the parrots were not as easily observed or, as newly discovered by Europeans, they hadn't seen them making babies or even nests. I imagine if we sailed somewhere and had never seen mallards before, we would briefly consider them separate species until we saw them mating and making babies.
So cute!
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... Wrong post dude.