Maria Cristina Tello-Ramos Neighboring groups of birds within the same species can create very different-looking nests — showing that their nest-building choices aren’t solely controlled by instinct ...

While the trees in your yard are most attractive to nesting birds, they might also choose your garage. Whether you can remove ...

Learn more about the natural world with three incredible bird specimens Douglas G. D. Russell A bird making a nest. Taryn Elliott The nests and eggs of birds have fascinated us for hundreds of years.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with biologist Auke-Florian Hiemstra about his study of bird's nests that are made from anti-bird spikes. One human's trash just might be an avian's armoire. Urban birds have ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bird hotels in Indonesia try to attract swiftlets, whose edible nests are a delicacy in China. The swiftlet nests, made of dried saliva, are used to make bird's nest soup. Farmers compete to attract ...

Nest-building isn't just instinct. Birds can learn from others, letting groups within one species develop their own distinctive nest-building... When birds build nests, they're also building a culture ...

One human's trash just might be an avian's armoire. Urban birds have long used a wide assortment of building materials to build their nests - galvanized nails, barbed wire, even sheet music by BJ ...

Neighboring groups of birds within the same species can create very different-looking nests — showing that their nest-building choices aren’t solely controlled by instinct and the environment. Instead ...