While walking around the yard clipping some greens for holiday decorating, I found a few gifts in the form of bird nests ...

When building a bird nest in ant territory, the best defense could be an offensive fungus. Swollen-thorn acacia trees are aggressively defended by multiple species of ants. And yet, several species of ...

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 ...

Diane Crookham-Johnson has learned a lot from watching birds these last seven years. She’s learned that no matter how many ...

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 ...

Bird Nests are truly amazing. Did you know there are estimated to be over 18,000 different bird species on Earth that make ...

Dear Heloise: I appreciate the recent letter about the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918. I was surprised by how many people wrote in with methods of how to discourage birds from building nests at ...

Eurasian coots are round, black waterbirds with distinctive, chicken-like feet. Each year, these birds typically build new, bowl-shaped nests using leaves, rushes and reeds. But, while nesting in ...

It's always pleasant to see a bird nest in one of the trees in your yard, but sometimes looks can be deceiving. You don't ...