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NESTBOX

Nest Education & Science Transforming Bird Outreach & eXploration

In 2025 we started a collaboration between Hope College, the Outdoor Discovery Center, and Scouting America to start a series of nest boxes in Holland, MI. Our goal is to bring together scientists, students, the public, and bird enthusiasts to ask and answer questions about avian ecology. 

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NESTBOX History

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Spring 2025

Hope College Animal Behavior (Biology 370) students help to take measurements of the boxes at the ODC and place numbered tags on each of them. 

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Scouting America troop #14 (Spring Lake, Michigan) and Venture Crew #2345 (Ada, Michigan) work to install new bluebird nest boxes. 

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Summer 2024

Hope College Ronald Lab research students help to recover nestboxes from their former home at Consumer's Energy

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Fall 2024

Scouting America troop #14 (Spring Lake, Michigan) and Venture Crew #2345 (Ada, Michigan) build new Nestboxes to be installed. 

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Summer 2025

Birds like the tree swallow and house wren begin to build nests within the boxes

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