Nests are generally thought of as a bird’s home, but it is more appropriate to consider them a nursery for raising baby birds. S.K. Winnicki, a Ph.D. candidate in avian evolutionary ecology at ...

While bird species that nest in the eaves of buildings may seem like a nuisance, it’s against the law to disturb nests that have eggs or baby birds, and you can be issued a citation for doing so.

If you attract nesting birds, you may worry that snakes eat birds and eggs. Learn how to lower the risk. Also learn if birds ...

Baby birds may be negatively affected by the noise of traffic, even when still inside their eggs. The noises of cars and other motor vehicles heavily interfere with the development of these bird ...

Because of the summer heat, baby Cooper’s Hawks falling out of their nests is a natural phenomenon in Arizona, Laura Hackett a wildlife biologist for Liberty Wildlife said.

A bird making a nest. Taryn Elliott The nests and eggs of birds have fascinated us for hundreds of years. At its simplest the nest is any structure made by a bird in which eggs are laid and ...

So between broods, evidence says to clean out the boxes as soon as birds fledge. At the end of the season, however, another study by W. H. Davis and colleagues (1994) found that bluebirds ...

Fork-tailed drongos —medium-sized, black or dark grey birds with red eyes that live throughout southern Africa—can suss out and reject African cuckoo eggs in their nests with 93.7 percent ...