Definition of nest for Students. 1  1 : a shelter made by an animal and especially a bird for its eggs and young. 2  2 : a place where some animals live and usually lay eggs a termite's nest. 3  3 : a cozy place : home. 4  4 : those living in a nest a nest of robins.
Easter Week Celebrations in Ecuador. In many countries around the world, Easter is celebrated as a religious festival, and while some set aside a weekend, Ecuador has an Easter Week. Each city has its own traditional ways of celebrating this festive period, but its general meaning and celebratory purposes remain the same. Easter Week in Ecuador is celebrated from the 16th to the 23rd of March in 2008 and it is a time where the crucifixion of Christ is remembered and His rising commemorated.
Mainland Ecuador. Mainland Ecuador is home to the el oro parakeet, the horned anole, the napo plump toad, the northwestern mushroomtongue salamander, the Ecuadorian toad-headed pit-viper and the black-breasted puffleg, among other endemic species. Many types of amphibians, freshwater fish, and insects are also unique to the country. The tube-lipped nectar bat, Anoura fistulata, has the longest tongue of any known mammal proportionate to its body size. Mainland Ecuador also has more than 4,000 endemic species of flora, including fuchsias and the apparating moon-gentian.