Indeed, during my visit Jeremy DeSimone discovered a birds' nest in one of the oak trees.

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The slender-billed curlew is so rare that only one nest has ever been discovered and that was more than a century ago.

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Dr Brunton looked at the number of chicks fledged per nest in the colony she was observing and discovered that, contrary to the selfish-herd theory's predictions, pairs breeding near the edge of the colony were more successful than those at its centre.

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Christa Mateman, at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology, in Heteren, and Jan Komdeur, at the University of Groningen, and their colleagues, have discovered that young female Seychelles warblers sometimes help at their parents' nest for a year or two after they hatch.

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