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.

Dutch doctoral student Auke-Florian Hiemstra excavated a bird nest, and made a startling discovery. From McDonald's lids to face masks, the nest was built with layers of human trash — the oldest ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Towhee Club, formerly known as King's Creek Golf Club, is now open in Spring Hill with a modern new clubhouse and restaurant. The facelift was initiated after brothers and developers Nathan and ...

The conspiracy theory acknowledges that, at one point, birds WERE real, but that the US government executed all of them between 1959 and 1971, replaced them all with drones to spy on us, and that ...

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, ...