Just a few days ago, I got a call from a neighbor living just one half mile away whom I had not met. She needed help in knowing what to do about a baby bird that had come out of the nest. This is one ...

On the same spring day in Wisconsin, from Kenosha to Superior and in habitats from wild to urban, one bird species is ubiquitous: the American robin. And we don't have any difficulty seeing or ...

An American robin infuriates me every morning when it raids the tray of mealworms that I’ve placed on a pole to feed my nesting bluebirds. I know the robin needs nutrition to energize its own nest ...

A: Many, if not most songbirds, raise but one brood a summer in the Berkshires and will use a nest only once, starting over if a second brood is in the offing. The American robin will fledge young one ...

The American Robin is one of the most common birds in North America. You’ve probably seen one in your backyard or been woken up by one before sunrise. But did you know this iconic bird is also ...

Snakeskin decor is a bold interior design choice—but for some birds, it's literally a matter of life and death. This is the conclusion of researchers from New York's Cornell University, who found ...

Within the range of more ordinary cup-like woven nests, there is a lot of variation in construction, using different materials Among the thousands of bird species there is great variation in nesting ...

Outside my dining room window a robin is building a nest. Every morning, I stand in silence, watching in awe as nature takes its course. She flies in and out of the leafless dogwood tree with bits of ...

Just outside my home-office window, I noticed a bird’s nest about 4 feet high in some leafless shrubbery on a cold, winter’s day. I had not seen the nest in summer when it was hidden by green ...