nesting ground

English

Noun

nesting ground (plural nesting grounds)

1. The place where an organism nests.
   • 1904, Jack London, chapter 30, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC:

     "I heard of a man, once, who invaded the nesting grounds of wild geese," Maud said. "They killed him."
     "The geese?"
     "Yes, the geese. My brother told me about it when I was a little girl."