This tiny bird lays tiny eggs and lives in tiny nests. We are fortunate enough to get to see an Allen’s hummingbird lay an egg in its nest in a That would be the egg of an Allen’s hummingbird.

Wisdom, the Laysan albatross, stands at right with red leg tag next to her new partner as they admire their recently laid egg at Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, Nov. 27, 2024 in Honolulu.

Q. Do brown-headed cowbirds select the nest of another bird to lay eggs in based on which species raised them as a nestling? In other words, if a cowbird is raised as a chick by a red-winged ...

Discover how long baby birds stay in the nest, how long it takes bird eggs to hatch, how baby birds learn to fly and more about bird nests.

Red-winged blackbirds lay pale blue-green to gray eggs with black or brown markings in their marsh nests. Other local nesters with some blue-tinted eggs include house finches and gray catbirds.

Black birds with a greenish sheen and brown heads sometimes visit my yard during spring migration. These are male brown-headed cowbirds, and they often arrive in mixed flocks of red-winged blackbirds ...

Cuckoo finches can lay eggs in a variety of colors to match different species. Once hatched, the chicks are often larger than the host chicks. Claire N. Spottiswoode ...

JACKSON, MI -- Love birds Big Red and Chayton are back atop the Jackson County Tower Building where five eggs have been laid the past couple of weeks. The peregrine falcons have brought up chicks ...

The oldest known wild bird in the world has laid an egg at the ripe age of about 74, her first in four years, U.S. wildlife officials said. The long-winged seabird named Wisdom, a Laysan albatross ...

The oldest known wild bird in the world has laid an egg at the ripe age of about 74, her first in four years, U.S. wildlife officials said.