There are a lot of places we love to see birds set up homes, but seasonal wreaths are not one. One option helps prevent birds ...

By paying attention to when fledglings have left the nest, you can safely clean bird boxes during nesting season without ...

Birds, with their vast and diverse population across the globe, have amazed us for centuries with their beauty, behaviors, ...

I observed a female chipping sparrow with something in it’s beak. It looked like short, fine pieces of tan, dry grass.

Bird nests can vary from crude and simple to intricate and complex. Predators, weather, habitat and the availability of materials are contributing factors to the nest location and design.

Puzzlingly, many birds add human-made material to their nests with no obvious function – now there is evidence that these home improvements might ward off predators By Sarah Philip 23 May 2025 ...

For such a tiny bird, its nest is more a work of art than a means of shelter. This video by thehummingbirdslover_s shows the final result, but here’s the process from start to finish. View this ...

A variety of birds build cup nests, which are often held steady by a base of twigs, bark shreds, grasses and mosses. They’re also held together by a layer of mud, spiderwebs, fur and hair.

Eurasian coots are round, black waterbirds with distinctive, chicken-like feet. Each year, these birds typically build new, bowl-shaped nests using leaves, rushes and reeds. But, while nesting in ...

His discovery of successive layers of plastic in birds’ nests, from different periods, has now been published in the scientific journal Ecology. “You flip through these nests like through pages of a ...

Even today, not all birds build nests. Male emperor penguins keep the egg of their partner in a pouch for just over two months. Australian mallee fowl build huge mounds in which to warm their eggs.