nestful

And then, coming back to the cave one day with a nestful of young-hatched pheasants, I found Lop-Ear had killed the puppy and was just beginning to eat him.

CHAPTER VIII 2010

But rather than mimic the sound of a single warbler, the cuckoo can sing like an entire nestful.

Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

But rather than mimic the sound of a single warbler, the cuckoo can sing like an entire nestful.

Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

But rather than mimic the sound of a single warbler, the cuckoo can sing like an entire nestful.

Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

"To the broody hen the notion would probably seem monstrous that there should be a creature in the world to whom a nestful of eggs was not the utterly fascinating and precious and never-to-be-too-much-sat-upon object which it is to her."

On Scientific Explorations of Human Nature 2008

"To the broody hen the notion would probably seem monstrous that there should be a creature in the world to whom a nestful of eggs was not the utterly fascinating and precious and never-to-be-too-much-sat-upon object which it is to her."

Five Best 2008

They're a nestful of vipers, these advisers, in grim battle with one another and the exigencies of their career-stuffed lives -- but all devoted in their ways to the PM and her political aims.

Strange Days at 10 Downing 2007

"It will be very interesting to see how much farther they will go," says Rainer Altenkamp, a Berlin biologist who just ringed a nestful of hawk chicks in a small Jewish cemetery downtown.

The New Jungles 2007

Another occupant of this nestful tree is the sulphur-crested cockatoo, whose eggs are laid deep down in a hollow.

The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

But she suffered, no doubt, in her own way; she was red-eyed, and very hasty-handed with her nestful of babes.

Australia Felix 2003