It's not uncommon to find a young bird on the sidewalk or parking strip this time of year, but there are do's and don'ts when ...

Photo from Chun-Fu Lin via Lin, Chang, Matsui, Shen, Tominaga and Lin (2025) In a wetland of central Taiwan, a “slender” creature poked its “triangular” head out of a mud nest and made an ...

A flamingo looks like a bird cooked up by an ... bill it scrapes up clumps of mud to make a nest. Stiff bristles inside its bill filter water containing small crustaceans, mollusks, insects ...

Spring is in the air — which means nest-making season is upon us! For this month’s Chirp Chat, Lake Effect’s Xcaret Nuñez ...

Federal law prohibits disturbing barn swallows once they nest, so you should consider taking preventative action now.

When Jay Falk and Scott Taylor first saw the white-necked Jacobin hummingbird chick in Panama’s dense rainforest, the bird ...

There’s a good chance that the birds you observed were soaking nest material to make mud.” Find out what robins ... babies grow after hatching. By some small miracle, were on our deck the ...

What are birds' nests made from? Birds use a range of materials to build their nests, including sticks, lichen, spider silk, bark and mud. Different birds make different nests. Some nests are as ...

Birds build their nests out of everything from twigs and mud to spider silk ... Scrape nests are small indents, holes or divots dug into open ground in sand, dirt or gravel environments, and ...