Israeli fashion design student from the Shenkar College of Engineering and Design Danit Peleg (R) assists a fashion blogger to wear an outfit from her graduate collection during a conference on 3-D printing in Tel Aviv, Israel September 3, 2015. Peleg, 27, says she spent over 2000 hours to create her graduate collection which is made solely from home 3-D printers. International fashion bloggers, taking part in a project supported by “Stand With Us Israel fellowship”, a non-profit organisation, attended the conference and tried on Peleg's clothing before listening to her talk about her collection. (Photo by Nir Elias/Reuters)

A collection of whimsical cats in fantastical hats, created by Carol Cavalaris.

A model falls over on the runway during the SECCRY Hu Sheguang Collection 2014 Show during Mercedes-Benz China Fashion Week, March 30, 2014, in Beijing. (Photo by Lintao Zhang/Getty Images)

Models prepare backstage before a presentation as part of Fashion Weekend Plus Size Summer 2015 collection show in Sao Paulo, July 25, 2015. (Photo by Nacho Doce/Reuters)

A schoolgirl collects rubbish from Karachi's Clifton beach early morning April 22, 2013, during a cleaning campaign as part of the commemoration of Earth Day. (Photo by Akhtar Soomro/Reuters)

A model wears a creation from the Alexandre Herchcovitch winter collection during the Sao Paulo Fashion Week in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Sunday, October 18, 2015. (Photo by Andre Penner/AP Photo)

Models get prepared backstage before Wagner Kallieno Winter Collection 2016 show during Sao Paulo Fashion Week in Sao Paulo, Brazil, October 23, 2015. (Photo by Paulo Whitaker/Reuters)

Sharon Beals is a San Francisco based photographer who has photographed nest and eggs specimens collected over the last two centuries at The California Academy of Sciences, The Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, and The Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology. While few nests are collected today, these nests and eggs are used for research, providing important information about their builder’s habitats, DNA, diseases and other survival issues.