BIRDS’ EGGS 
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Thrush: Straw and dried grass, good shape and 
lined inside with mud or clay. 
Tui: Fibres and thread-like roots, lined inside with 
dry grass and edged with manuka twigs; plate 
shaped. 
House Sparrow: Roughly made of dry grass, rags, 
straw and feathers. 
Skylark: Mixture of dry grass and feathers (on 
the ground). 
Blackbird: Root fibres and dried grass, no lining. 
Starling: Roughly made of straw (or dry grass) 
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and a few feathers. 
Myna: Roughly made of straw (or dry grass) and 
a few feathers. 
Pipit: Soft dried grass (on ground or in a tussock). 
Shag: Dry grass, rushes, twigs, and coarse moss. 
Yellow Hammer: Coarse dry grass only. 
Kingfisher: A hole in a dead tree or sloping ground 
lined with dry grass. 
Pukeko: Dry rushes lined with soft grass. 
New Zealand Pipit (Ground Lark): Dried grass 
and a few feathers. 
Wood Pigeon: Saucer-shaped, fine twigs and some 
coarse moss. 
Kiwi: A few twigs in a hollow tree trunk or 
beneath a fallen tree. 
Californian Quail: None. Lays its eggs in a hidden 
depression on the ground. 
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