Nest
A nest was a home, or the beginnings of a home for some species, it could alternatively be a city, a hive or a conglomeration. (TV: The Web Planet [+]Loading...["The Web Planet (TV story)"], The Myth Makers [+]Loading...["The Myth Makers (TV story)"], Nightvisiting [+]Loading...["Nightvisiting (TV story)"], Utopia [+]Loading...["Utopia (TV story)"]) It could also describe where people, or groups of people slept. (TV: Arc of Infinity [+]Loading...["Arc of Infinity (TV story)"])
Nest could also describe a grouping of items, or grouped elements in a landscape. (PROSE: Camera Obscura [+]Loading...["Camera Obscura (novel)"])
Or similarly could reference items like wires being messy, and woven like a bird's nest. (PROSE: Anachrophobia [+]Loading...["Anachrophobia (novel)"]) The War Doctor's TARDIS was observed to be a nest of cables by Cinder. (PROSE: Engines of War [+]Loading...["Engines of War (novel)"])
The area around where machine guns were placed with sand bags and other protections was known as a "nest". (TV: The War Games [+]Loading...["The War Games (TV story)"], Robot [+]Loading...["Robot (TV story)"])
Shortly after arriving on Androzani Minor the Fifth Doctor and Peri Brown fell into a spectrox nest, resulting in Spectrox toxaemia for both. (TV: The Caves of Androzani [+]Loading...["The Caves of Androzani (TV story)"])
Species
Tree-Moles lived in trees on the edge of the petrol forests on Venus in circa 3,000,000,000 BC. (PROSE: Venusian Lullaby [+]Loading...["Venusian Lullaby (novel)"])
The Quill lived or grew up in nests. (TV: The Metaphysical Engine, or What Quill Did [+]Loading...["The Metaphysical Engine, or What Quill Did (TV story)"]
On Mondas cybermats lived in nests. (AUDIO: Spare Parts [+]Loading...["Spare Parts (audio story)"])
There was a so called "dinosaur nest" on board the Silurian Ark, according to Amy Pond. (TV: Dinosaurs on a Spaceship [+]Loading...["Dinosaurs on a Spaceship (TV story)"])
Tenzas were likened by the Eleventh Doctor to cuckoos, seeking a nest to be raised in. (TV: Night Terrors [+]Loading...["Night Terrors (TV story)"])
Missy once recalled that the Doctor once fell into a nest of vampire monkeys. (TV: The Witch's Familiar)
On Orphan 55 in a possible future timeline Dregs lived underground in nests. (TV: Orphan 55 [+]Loading...["Orphan 55 (TV story)"]
Birds
Cuckoos invaded another bird's nest, overcoming those within. (PROSE: Seeing I [+]Loading...["Seeing I (novel)"])
Pheasants used nests. (PROSE: Doctor Who and the Dæmons [+]Loading...["Doctor Who and the Dæmons (novelisation)"])
Insects
On Vortis Zarbi had nests. (TV: The Web Planet (TV story [+]Loading...["The Web Planet (TV story"])
Wasps formed nests. (TV: Kerblam! [+]Loading...["Kerblam! (TV story)"], PROSE: The Ancestor Cell [+]Loading...["The Ancestor Cell (novel)"])
Ants lived in nests. (PROSE: The Eight Doctors [+]Loading...["The Eight Doctors (novel)"])
Other uses
A "nest egg" was an item or items or collection saved for the future. (TV: The Creature from the Pit [+]Loading...["The Creature from the Pit (TV story)"])
