I have photographed nests for many years and on several continents, as part of a lifetime of fascination with the mysteries and wonders of the natural world.

A bird makes hundreds of trips to collect the materials to build a nest, which it then weaves and glues together with spider-web, caterpillar silk sometimes mud and saliva. Each does this instinctively because of ‘genetic’ memory--abilities and responses incorporated into its genetic code as the result of the common experience of its ancestors. However nest has a unique architecture and masterfully utilizes materials found in the immediate environment, from animal hair to man made trash like plastics wrappers.