stick-built

Updated: August 24, 2026

Now we began to see the breeding places of the water-birds of which we had heard. There was a confusion of bird calls, sand-hill cranes were everywhere; in some cases with five stick-built nests in a single water-killed tree. A blue heron flopped around as though it had broken a wing, to decoy us from its nest. The snowy white pelican waddled along the banks and mingled with the cormorants.

E. L. (Ellsworth Leonardson) Kolb - Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico