Birds, for the most part, do not live in nests. These complex structures, sometimes meticulously assembled for more than a month, tend to be used for the express purposes of incubating eggs and ...

Spring and summer are the seasons of the juvenile bird! Warm your heart with these too-cute photos of young birds out in the ...

In his new book Interesting Bird Nests & Eggs, in which all these images appear, Douglas Russell, senior curator at the museum, delves into the history of some of the specimens. “A nest is a ...

Puzzlingly, many birds add human-made material to their nests with no obvious function – now there is evidence that these ...

The flycatcher is one of a number of birds that line their nests with shed snakeskin because, a new study reports, it scares off small predators. More Jupiterimages / mrjo2405/PHOTOS.com / iStock ...

Dexter students as well as baseball and softball players and their families have had a close up view this spring of the Killdeer, and its unique nesting habits. Over the past two months, Killdeer ...

Contrary to its name, the common coot is no ordinary bird. Contrary to its name, the common coot is no ordinary bird. These plump, black-and-white birds have made themselves at home in the canals ...

But despite their common goal, birds’ nests are widely variable, ranging from woven baskets to hammocks made from saliva to a spot of mud on the ground, just sparsely lined with grass.