These perennials, trees, and shrubs provide vital food and shelter for backyard birds through the winter months.

Many people love to support their backyard birds with food and water, but they don’t always realize they can also provide nesting materials in spring. However, choosing the right materials can be ...

In our complete guide to bird lifecycles, we lead you from nesting and hatching all the way back to the mating season.

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 ...

We examined the significance of arroyo-riparian habitat to birds in the Chihuahuan Desert of south-central New Mexico. Nests (N = 620) of 27 species were monitored during 1993-1995. Twenty-three ...

Birds choose the safest trees to build their nests. In the Florida Everglades, that means living directly above alligator-infested water. If that sounds like a perilous choice, consider this: Egrets, ...

Here is a look at five bird species that build some of the world’s most unusual nests, ranging from clay ovens to woven ...

A scrape nest on the beach made by a pair of American oystercatchers. Just like the birds that make them, bird nests come in many different forms. Depending on the size, habitat, and lifestyle of ...

SAN ANGELO — I doubt there is anyone who doesn’t know that birds lay eggs to reproduce and because they cannot carry the eggs around, they must be laid in a nest of some sort. It is the sort of nest ...

Many birds call the forest understory home. The dense forest floor is the perfect setting for many types of birds to nest and ...