A bird making a nest. Taryn Elliott The nests and eggs of birds have fascinated us for hundreds of years. At its simplest the ...

To counter this, the team have built up sandbanks using driftwood, shrubs and branches to create more sheltered areas for birds to nest in. "It is hoped this will counter the impact of the weather ...

Nest boxes can be an excellent substitute for the holes found in old trees or dilapidated buildings that cavity-nesting birds, such as tits and sparrows, prefer. But in recent years, bird-welfare ...

I was surprised by how many people wrote in with methods of how to discourage birds from building nests at their house. We had a barn swallow who built a nest up under the eaves of my front porch.

To see what the mess was, I held my phone high overhead and took a picture. It was, of course, a bird’s nest, containing four tiny light-blue eggs. Adorable. At some point, those eggs would hatch.

The Museum holds one of the largest and most comprehensive collections of blown birds’ eggs in the world as well as over 4,000 nests. In total we hold over 200,000 data-rich clutches of eggs, ...

Bird Nests and Construction Behaviour provides a broad view of our understanding of the biology of the nests, bowers and tools made by birds. It illustrates how, among vertebrates, the building ...

Now, Gao and Brown have joined forces on the new single “Bird W/O Nest.” It’s basically a tender ballad, but it keeps changing moods and tones as it unfurls. The song starts out with Gao ...

Dutch researchers have found that some birds use the spikes as weapons around their nests - using them to keep pests away in the same way that humans do. It shows amazing adaptability, biologist ...

Edible bird’s nest is made by a species of cave-dwelling swiftlets. Weaved from their saliva and harvested in caves and man-made nesting houses, bird’s nests are then painstakingly cleaned ...