Most birds spend hours, days, or even weeks painstakingly building their nests. Some birds make nests out of mud, some build nests in trees, and some birds nest on the ground and simply scrape out a ...

For that reason, I generally don’t consider them homes. But the analogy is apt, if only to convey the uniqueness of their ...

I turned to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology for more insight into types of wild bird nests. There are five primary kinds: the traditional cup nest, cavity, pendant, scrape or ground, and burrow nests.

However, the timing of mowing can have significant impacts on a variety of bird species. Small grassland songbirds nest on, or close to, the ground in grassy and shrubby fields. Mowing and ...

Prairie dogs are the Paul Reveres of the Great Plains: They bark to alert neighbors to the presence of predators, with ...

Homeowners may start seeing birds nesting in weird spots such as mailboxes, a front door wreath, or gutters. Bird experts say ...

Conservationists are warning of an increase in recent weeks of the nesting sites of endangered breeding waders, such as the ...

Prairie dogs, which are rodents and are closely related to squirrels, bark to let each other know if there are predators ...