The Bird's Nest

The Bird's Nest: Pictorial Adventures of a Fundoplicator (commonly known as simply The Bird's Nest) is an American children's animated series that aired on the Kiddie Channel from March 5, 2019, through September 6, 2020. It was created and published by Willodean Keating, and is based on characters she created in her 2017 computer game developed by Unity.

The series centers on Lerridge (voiced by Julieta Badillo), a stoic, bossy, fussy, self-hating, egocentric multi-colored Kiddie bird who lives with her family in Cascade Crestfalls and works as a laboratorial fundoplicator. Main characters include Springshare (voiced by Lodair Hortiguela), a ptarmigan who is Lerridge's business partner and best friend, as well as Hunter (voiced by Fred Pescatore), a cheerful and slow-witted teenage blackbird who Lerridge often resents.

Due to its popularity, The Bird's Nest was later green-lit as a half-hour series, which premiered on March 30, 2019. Originally, it ended on October 25, 2019, totaling one season and 20 episodes, but resumed production in 2020. Production of the series ceased again after Willodean Keating left Kiddie in February 2021. As of July 30, 2022, both seasons of the show are available on Kiddie Plus.

Premise
At the beginning of the series, the rainbow skidgeon Lerridge becomes a celebrity and is about to star in her own TV show. Now, she lives her life with pleasure, abandoning her family, only to be one day removed and replaced by a new, more muscular and superhero-like bird. Being rejected by her family, however, her friends Springshare and Hunter, ask her to return her place and expose the new imposter.

Later on in the series, Lerridge is able to gain access to the studio where the show is filming. There, she confronts her impersonator, who is revealed to be a robot, and is then destroyed. The remainder of the series culminates with Lerridge opposing the one behind the whole impersonator plot, her archenemy, the King Eagle.

Season 1

 * 1) My Name Is Lerridge
 * 2) Way of the Easy Riders
 * 3) Opportunities of Wrath
 * 4) Forbidden Rules
 * 5) Principal Beware
 * 6) To Say or Not to Say
 * 7) Joking the Skidgeon
 * 8) Complained Alive
 * 9) Springshare's Frugality Adventure
 * 10) Hunter and the Singletary Apocalypse
 * 11) Squizzles of Endearment
 * 12) Love, Happiness, and Personality
 * 13) Blackbird Inheritance
 * 14) On Behalf of the Parents
 * 15) Days of Judgement
 * 16) Profuse and Destroy
 * 17) Birdie Squad
 * 18) Colors of Doom
 * 19) A Room with a View
 * 20) Secret Backstory

Season 2

 * 1) Life Job
 * 2) Get Rich Quick
 * 3) The Birds of Danger
 * 4) The Buggian Candidate
 * 5) The Route Less Traveled
 * 6) A Ptarmigan in a Birch Tree
 * 7) The One Who Craved a Big Role
 * 8) Flying Amok
 * 9) From Bad to Worse
 * 10) Deal With It
 * 11) Lerridge and Springshare in a Pictorial Conversion
 * 12) Spy Gang
 * 13) Fun, Cute and Deadly
 * 14) The Longest Weekdays Ever!
 * 15) With Friends Like These
 * 16) Summer Takes a Holiday
 * 17) The Worm Turns
 * 18) Onward, Ho!
 * 19) The Feelings Are Mutual
 * 20) Backstory Part Two

Reception
The show was critically acclaimed. One user from Common Sense Media favorably compared the series' writing and praised its broad appeal.