Bird's nest

A bird nest is a place where birds lay and hatch eggs.

Places

• Nickname for the Beijing National Stadium
• The Bird's Nest (house)

Cuisine

• Bird's nest soup, delicacy made from the salivary excretions of the swiftlet
• Seafood birdsnest, southern Chinese dish made of taro
• Birds Nest (horse), a British Thoroughbred racehorse
• Another name for egg in the basket

Plants and fungi

• Bird's nest plant, carrot (Daucus carota)
• Bird's nest fern, several species of ferns in the Asplenium genus
• Bird's nest orchid, Neottia nidus-avis
• Bird's nest fungi, several fungi in the Nidulariales order.

Books

• The Bird's Nest (novel), by Shirley Jackson