robins will make a beautiful little round nest of woven grass and carefully line it with feathers, bits of fluff and other soft things. swallows like to nest near other swallows. they make nests from little blobs of clay, often on a beam near the roof of a building where it is well sheltered. many birds like a hollow tree to nest in. eagle's nests are often just piles of dead wood on the top of the tallest tree or mountain. scrub turkeys scratch together a huge pile of leaves that may be 10 metres across. guillemots lay their eggs on rock shelves with no nest at all. their eggs are shaped so that they roll around in circles and do not fall off cliffs. a cuckoo does not make its own nest. it lays its egg in the nest of another bird and leaves it for them to care for. the cuckoo eggs are camouflaged to look like the host's eggs.