Birdhouse Factors to Consider There are few bird-watching experiences more rewarding than setting up a birdhouse and having ...

Bird nests can vary from crude and simple to intricate and complex. Predators, weather, habitat and the availability of ...

Even though house wrens don't stop at feeders, they are still a common backyard bird because they're cavity nesters. They use natural cavities but they also like manmade nest boxes. Create a brush ...

Chester County woman can lay claim to many such bluebirds as she helps protect and preserve our area’s bluebird population.

House wrens are little dynamos ... and can become fierce pillagers of other birds' nests. This is where they run afoul of some humans. A wren will enter a nest box already in use by another ...

At Little Swamp Sanctuary in western Midland County, most of this year's resident house wrens nest in natural tree cavities. These birds also like to use small nesting boxes – with a base of ...

House wrens construct their nests from sticks ... Or are they merely luring defenseless birds to nest in dangerous places? I don’t know the answer to this question, and I may never know it.

just as house wrens protect the resources of their nesting territory by destroying other birds’ nests. This is the way of the natural world. Working to protect it means learning to accept its ...

The bird’s desire to get this nest building done is one thing ... This year, however, the wren colony was late in arriving and a house sparrow checked out the gourd, saw that it liked it ...

Turns out that house wrens, unlike Carolina wrens, are very aggressive to other small birds and their eggs, and will evict them from nest boxes while breaking their eggs with their beaks.