In the vast room accommodating the bird exhibits at the Nairobi National Museum are also a selection of nests and eggs. Nests of twigs, feathers, leaves, reeds, dung (manure), tree hollows, and vegetation accompany the stuffed birds and a map of their habitat in Kenya. Some look like saucers, while others look like cups; some are meticulously neat and trim, while others look like a random collection of twigs.
MARTINA NICOLLS is an international
aid and development consultant, and the author of:- Similar But Different
in the Animal Kingdom (2017), The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament
(2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a
Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).
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