Can you identify the birds nesting in your garden?

Tree and female House sparrows ©Janice Robertson, RSPB Ouse Washes 12 January 2019

A bird nest is the spot in which a bird lays and incubates its eggs and raises its young. There is a huge variety of nests, from the grassy cup nest of the Blackbird, to the elaborately woven nest of the Long-tailed Tit. For some species, a nest is simply a shallow depression made in sand; for others, it is a hole in a tree or a burrow dug into the ground. Identifying nests can therefore be quite tricky! In order to ID nests, practice is key, so see if you can use this quiz to get a head start on the nests you might find in your own garden.