In the domain of coastal conservationism, "nest discovery" has been abstracted as "the moment when a conservationist has just seen and identified a nest in his/her vicinity". What is "nest discovery" best classified as?

In the domain of coastal conservationism, a "nest" has been abstracted as "a structure animals build to hold their eggs and/or offspring for breeding and protection while they mature". What is "nest" best classified as?

In the domain of coastal conservationism, "egg counting" has been abstracted (in a more detailed view) as "the process of opening the nest, so its content can be observed, followed by the measuring, weighing, counting, etc. of each individual egg, followed by a careful replacement of the eggs, followed by covering the eggs with the material with which they were initially covered". What is this notion of "egg counting" best classified as?

In the domain of coastal conservationism, "egg counting" has been abstracted as "determining the number of eggs in a given nest at a given instance in time". What is "egg counting" best classified as?