The white silk nests that are often destroyed by people are actually an important factor in the life of the eastern tent ...

The location, shape and construction of a nest is as good a way to identify a species as is feather colour or song is to ...

Except for the barn owl, our region’s birds are predictable when they nest, how often they nest, and for the most part, how ...

Our home in Northbrook is now surrounded by nesting birds. These include a family of robins nesting atop a rain gutter, ...

Orioles are skilled seamstresses, weaving intricate, hanging nests with more than 10,000 stitches, using grasses, twine, and even horsehair. These birds build large, hanging nests high in tree ...

Many of these birds, like the robins, tree swallows and phoebes, return year after year. But one newcomer this year is a pair of purple finches that decided to construct their nest in the middle ...