BUILT TO SUIT Birds, like people, build to suit, though birds are wa-a-ay more interested in camouflage than are we humans. Just as we have our styles of wood, adobe or brick, so do the birds: twig ...

The Hampshire House Martins Project is offering free so-called nest cups, which save the birds time and energy compared to ...

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 ...

Cliff swallows are said by ornithologists to show the highest degree of colonization of any of the 89 swallow species in the world. Colonies can number from 200 to more than 2,000 nests. They could be ...

BALTIMORE (WBFF) — Two new bird chicks at the Maryland Zoo won't be visible to the public for a couple of weeks, thanks to the birds themselves. The zoo announced the hatching two Von der Decken’s ...

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 ...

In my last column, I introduced the great drama of the bird world currently in progress: the nesting season. What I didn’t talk much about, however, are the nests themselves, those uncounted ...

Walking along a river trail recently, some birding friends and I stopped to stare in astonishment at an unusual sight, a hummingbird flitting near the base of a big oak. Almost at ground level, she ...

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 ...

When we think of bird nests, most of us imagine a simple bundle of twigs tucked in a tree branch. But that common image is just one part of a much bigger story. Around the world, birds have found many ...

Whether you love watching barn swallows up close or dread the mess they leave behind, a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service expert encourages you to take preventative action before the birds begin ...