The “sun” garden glitters by day and glows by night. Interspersed among phlox, catmint, purple Japanese irises, and red bee ...

Birds can nest in inconvenient spots like flower pots, planters, and hanging baskets. There are rules against disturbing ...

Imagine wandering through a sunlit forest, your eyes catching a flash of color or a curious structure nestled in the branches. Is it a bird’s nest—or is it something more? Across the globe, birds have ...

Millions of birds pass through our yards during their bi-annual migrations, but they face an invisible killer along the way: glass windows. In the US alone, an estimated one billion birds die each ...

Florida wildlife officials plead to keep fireworks and dogs from traumatizing nesting shorebirds and sea turtles ...

These Bird Nests Are Full of Trash, Including Some That’s 30 Years Old Scientists studying Eurasian coots in Amsterdam found layers of decades-old garbage in their urban nests ...

Two species of birds in Costa Rica build nests in trees defended by ants. Ants that encounter the horsehair fungus in the nests develop odd behaviors.

An advertisement for the 1994 World Cup, fast food wrappers, COVID-19 masks—what birds used to build their nests reflects a world with more plastic.

The research sheds light not only on how bird nests stay together but also how other wonders of animal architecture function.

Stop Window Strikes: Helping Birds Bypass the Glass As juvenile birds fledge the nest, and hundreds of species of birds begin their annual migration to their winter habitats, this time of year ...

Nest-building isn’t just instinct. Birds can learn from others, letting groups within one species develop their own distinctive nest-building traditions.

Birds in colder environments build bigger, thicker, more insulating nests than their warm-weather counterparts. The new study introduces a third possible variable: avian tradition.