Many consider cowbirds to be a nuisance. Setting up backyard bird feeders or a birdbath are simple and easy ways to enjoy birdwatching in your own yard while supporting local bird populations. That ...

In about two-thirds of songbird species, female birds sing, too. The research so far suggests that their reasons for singing ...

(Pic: Freepik) Known for their adaptability, house sparrows frequently evict other birds like swallows, bluebirds, and chickadees from their nests and take over. (Pic: Freepik) A brood parasite, the ...

Female brown-headed cowbird. Source: Rhododendrites ... in terms of territory and protecting their nest.” The second-highest-supported function for female song, intrapair communication, is ...

These cowbirds will lay eggs in the nests of songbirds and abandon them. The cowbird egg will hatch before the other eggs in the nest, and the cowbird chick instinctively knows to kick the other eggs ...

A few years ago, he began studying the brown-headed cowbird. Both are among a fascinating group of birds, called brood parasites, that abandon their eggs in the nests of other species, leaving them to ...

“The Case of the Cracked Eggshell” presents details of an empty nest, cracked eggshells below, no clear tracks and possible suspects: duck, snake, deer, raccoon, skunk, and cowbird. Volunteers ...

In a new book, a curator at England's Natural History Museum describes rare and interesting nests and eggs—from the house ...

I was surprised by how many people wrote in with methods of how to discourage birds from building nests at their house.

The Nest Protect smoke detector is one of the few products that hasn’t been renewed under Google’s umbrella, and beyond that it hasn’t even been integrated into this new era, as it still ...

Cattle egret birds have nested at a wetland site in West Sussex for the first time. Three nests, all with hatched, active ...