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Published online 22 July 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news020715-14
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Tits weave fragrant nests
French birds prefer lavender-scented homes.
Birds weave aromatic plants into their nests, apparently to keep their home clean and bug-free for raising chicks. Blue tits on the fragrant Mediterranean island of Corsica can even smell when it's time to refresh fading fragments, ecologists have shown1.
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