Bird embryos don’t get oxygen directly from their mothers, but don’t worry. Life—and their eggs—find a way. Hard-shelled bird eggs contain albumen, or “egg white,” and a yolk. The ...

What Do Cardinal Eggs Look Like? There are a few ways to identify Northern cardinal eggs. First, look at their general color. The eggs of these birds come in hues of off-white, such as grayish white ...

A rare but well known brown and white spotted frequenter of the Pacific shoreline from Chile to Alaska, where it runs close to foaming breakers on its longish green legs to feed, this bird’s ...

With its large, forward-facing eyes and head tufts that look like ears, the great eared nightjar resembles a dragon more than a bird. Often nicknamed the "baby dragon," this otherworldly-looking ...

During the many years I have spent attempting to master the subtleties of bird identification, I have consulted a plethora of field guides - Peterson, Kaufmann, National Geographic, and Sibley.

Of the treated nests 32 percent of the baby birds fledged. ... studied black-capped vireos and white-eyed vireos in ... 2021 — Avian brood parasites lay their eggs in the nests of other bird ...

As adults, American coots have a drab color scheme, with black bodies and white bills. Their chicks, however, have an aesthetic that’s part drunk friar, part disheveled lion, and part tequila ...