DEAR JOAN: A California towhee has built a nest in our jasmine bush. She laid three eggs about one week ago. Now we look in the nest and there is a fourth egg and it sure looks like a cowbird egg.

DEAR JOAN: There is a nest with two pale blue eggs and what I believe is a California towhee bird sitting on them. ‘Just bodies of animals everywhere’: Toxic algae bloom taking a toll on ...

Eastern Towhee Nest and Eggs Once males draw in a female, they flirt with a quieter song and quickly fan out their tails. The female later creates a cup-like nest around eye level.

Cowbirds don’t build nests of their own, but instead exploit the parental instincts of other nesting birds. The victims (hosts) of this well-studied “brood parasitism” include some 140 ...

From forest edges and thickets on late spring mornings in the Northeast comes what sounds like an exhortation from across the pond: drink-your-tea! This is not a British parent’s plea, ...

Which meant a nonnative bird was killing our native birds. House sparrows, originally from Europe and Asia, were brought to Brooklyn in the 1850s to control caterpillars.

Bird sightings. Notable reports in July from the Woodland Park yard area. Eurasian collared-dove- a few sightings, singing; Rufous hummingbird- first “fall” local report on July 4, one on July 31 ...

The eastern towhee (Pipilo erythrophthalmus, or “red-eyed chipper”) is found in much of the eastern United States. The species belongs to the New World sparrow family, a group native to the Americas ...