nidulation

nidulation (uncountable)

1. The time of remaining in the nest, or the nest-building.
   • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

     in the time of their [the birds'] nidulation and bringing forth their young

• “nidulation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.