twigs

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Some create burrows in the ground, others use cavities in wood such as tree hollows or fallen branches, and some nest inside plant stems or small existing holes in twigs.

From Science Daily • Jun. 18, 2026

In Vietnam, herons cast twigs in ponds like fly-fishermen to lure prey.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

British music star FKA twigs is to play Josephine Baker in a new biopic of the Roaring Twenties icon who became a hero of the French Resistance and the American civil rights movement.

From Barron's • May 12, 2026

All of the carbon in the trees and twigs the machine ingests ends up in the ground — not back in the air.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 30, 2025

It was filthy and ragged and its hair was tangled with twigs and leaves.

From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn