Cowbird mothers abandon their eggs in the nests of other bird species, but the chicks somehow manage to find their flock and ...

A nest is rarely found if seen at all, but building one is a monumental undertaking. For such a tiny bird, its nest is more This Bird’s Nest Weighs Less Than a Paper Clip ...

By Howard Whiteman Murray State University It was an odd place for a hummingbird nest, but there it was. I typically think ...

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One Bird Nest, 30 Years of Human ... And any given piece of trash might have lingered for a while before a coot added it to its nest. For a recent paper, published in the journal Ecology, ...

Last year, fireworks off a boat was a likely cause of a massive nest abandonment at the California least tern reserve near ...

Eurasian coots are round, black waterbirds with distinctive, chicken-like feet. Each year, these birds typically build new, bowl-shaped nests using leaves, rushes and reeds. But, while nesting in ...

But as NPR's Nell Greenfieldboyce reports, for some birds, nest building is more about culture. NELL GREENFIELDBOYCE, BYLINE: There's a small brown-and-white bird that lives in central Africa.

These birds live communally, and the entire cohort works together to build a nest and multiple roosts from grass. The group’s dominant female then lays eggs in the nest, which has a long ...

Nest boxes help many species of birds, including eastern bluebirds, tree swallows and wood ducks, ... In a 2023 paper published in Forest Ecology and Management, ...