House martins may find his 17th-century North Yorkshire house sufficiently des res, but to nurture the swifts, barn owls and kestrels, locally made nests are called for ...

Airlie Gardens' newest attraction doesn't flower and isn't even green. But that isn't stopping visitors from flocking to the ...

It’s nesting season again. For something so basic and so essential to avian life, I believe that the act of nesting is misunderstood by many. Let’s go over some very basic stuff and ...

This is a great time of year to see birds’ nests. A search for bird nests is like an archaeological dig, without the ground and without the dig. Shrubs and trees are naked, allowing an open ...

Lawmakers considered the goldfinch. Kids liked the scarlet tanager best. The whole thing took more than three decades.

But gardeners are warned to be mindful of cutting hedges in March as this is the bird nesting season and it is an offence ...

Tami Gingrich can't think of a better way to quell the winter blues than to participate in the Great Backyard Bird Count, set ...

We’re finally into February, and little signs of Spring are starting to pop up. I’ve spotted my first snowdrops of the year and the visitors in the garden have been getting noisier in the morning, I ...

One defense strategy that birds might employ involves draping their nests with snake skin. This tactic helps keep predators away, […] ...

There is a large family of birds belonging to the blackbird family, but an invasive species often causes confusion.

It held together as snow built up inside the bowl, and we often saw chickadees “bathing” in the snow-bowl, much as birds in ...

A cross-border conservation project centered on barn owls is fostering cooperation between Israeli and Arab scientists, offering a rare example of coexistence in the conflict-ridden Middle East ...