Constructed by Chris. Found that he struggled to built it without rules. He got a basic structure and put moss in the middle for some time of cushion but did not connect them together. Said that he could have used some straw but since I didn't put any of that material in it he didn't use it. He did not think about adding materials to his nest.
I think you might be thinking about "abstracting" designs from these various contributions, by Chris and others. redrawing them in simplified form, leaving out details. drawing them.
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A bird's nest is the most graphic mirror of a bird's mind.
— Charles Dixon. Birds' Nests : An Introduction to the Science of Caliology (1902) : page v
I found it by searching birds + nests + construction
see also the entry "nests of birds" in The Encylopedia Americana (1904)
I will try to locate some more schematic kinds of drawings, but imagine that you will have already found some.
the point here is, to translate this raw material, into a different form, that yields some understanding.
says more about Chris, than about nest structure/construction.
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