For eastern phoebes, a single nest requires so much incubating that splitting up the effort is almost sure to fail.

Birds can nest in inconvenient spots like flower pots, planters, and hanging baskets. There are rules against disturbing ...

Birders and biologists were excited, waiting to see what would happen. Park rangers stunned after unexpected bird pair ...

Cowbird mothers abandon their eggs in the nests of other bird species, but the chicks somehow manage to find their flock and ...

There are plenty of examples of mutualism in nature. Be it the rhinosaurus and the oxpecker, clownfish and sea anemones, or sharks and remora fish, there are unlikely besties in the wild that work ...

The team is "here to stay," no matter what, lead researcher Keith Bowers said, amid federal funding changes for scientific ...

The osprey is in decline in one of its key territories and some scientists blame overfishing of menhaden, an important food for the birds ...

Naturalists and volunteers at Erie Bluffs State Park check bird houses each week this time of year to chart nesting activity.

Unlike most other bird species, the brown-headed cowbird (Molothrus ater) lays its eggs in the nests of other bird species ...

Staff of the Virginia Aquarium and the Center for Conservation Biology at William & Mary routinely travel Virginia Beach ...

The most vulnerable shorebirds on Florida’s Gulf and Atlantic coasts, including in Volusia and Brevard, are the American ...