Two Examples of Hair as Nest

Sweeping from the top left to the mid-lower right of an unsuccessful deviation from the Rapture Hat's usual markings is a series of plattered nests in full crown, a handspring tribute to proper response, aka triumphs of nesting phenomenology.

"THAT" Landscape

The Lapland longspur, which winters in south Canada and north central US, experiences a compressed breeding season: wearied by a long flight and preparing for fertilization followed almost immediately by labor, incubation, and the desertion of whichever offspring runt, the mother rips out her own feathers as lining for the nest and waits it out.

The mocking cliff-chat from southern Africa intones and preens when excited. Couples defend their territory with an aggressive, precisely synchronized duet and ruffled threat posture. The "new" hair nest escalates naturally from the original animal hair bowl, splashing into an ornate stage replete with braids, extensions, applied product, and explicitly synthetic decoration. But as the mocking cliff-chat can be a fairly solitary bird outside of breeding season, the new nest continues to officiate a primary concern with privacy, soundproofing being an accessible, almost accidentally successful science.

"THIS" Landscape

The ivory-billed woodpecker, hailing within the boundaries of the Rapture Hat though miles north of our main button of concern, lives in a timeless cliché for stashing, eats one dwindling organic by-product. An overturned vase would make a good nucleus for setting off the lining. This is an example of preparing for extinction, of how the doomed of nesting phenomenology, in their internalized vanity, choose to behave.