Soft and pliable with thick linings Can be made with mosses, leaves, thistledown, spider webs, lichens, bark fibers. Spider web may be wound round structure by bird in flight. At times sites are re-used, several nests being built, one on the other, to produce an abnormally tall structure. It takes about 40 days from laying to fledging. The mother feeds the young by inserting her bill into each baby's mouth and regurgitating food from her own crop.
Nestlings have no feathers, are blind and only tiny bills.
They need constant care from birth. Whenever they hear their mom's wings or sense movement, they beg for food. Baby food consists of regurgitated necar and insects, poked down their throats by mom. A nest is always tidy, nestlings will do acrobatics to toilet train over the side. 8-12 days after hatching the babies can maintain their own body temperature.