A volcanic island in Iceland revealed that birds, not wind, brought the first plants. This changes what we know about how ...

There's a new camera above the bald eagle nest at U.S. Steel's Irvin Plant in West Mifflin. A tree climber went up to the ...

Phenology is the study of seasonal changes in plants and animals from year to year, such as when flowers bloom, birds nest or ...

A male and female Baltimore oriole feed their young while perched on their hanging nest, which is made of materials like thin twigs, plant cotton and bark strips. Spring is in the air — which means ...

Biologists present the latest innovation in nest building: bird nests made from anti-nesting spikes. Researchers from Naturalis Biodiversity Center and the Natural History Museum Rotterdam collected ...

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Encourage more delightful goldfinches to visit your yard by growing plants they love, including this native flower that acts ...

Birds use a wonderful variety of materials and techniques to create their nests. Some nests are small and tidy, like grass baskets lined with cozy feathers. Others are large and messily blobbed with ...

Native plants for birds are like Mom’s home cooking. They’re the tried-and-true foods that keep the birds coming back for ...

Two summers ago, a patient looking out his Belgian-hospital window spied in a tree an odd, abandoned magpie nest of plastic and wire. He had, by coincidence, just read a newspaper article about a ...