Chickadees naturally nest in the cavities of old trees, but they will also use nest tubes and nest boxes which you can put up in your yard. Large native trees and shrubs are also helpful for ...

The location, shape and construction of a nest is as good a way to identify a species as is feather colour or song is to ...

Some need mud for glue, like barn swallows and robins. No chickadee builds a nest without a cushion of moss. Every blue-gray gnatcatcher camouflages its nest with a coating of lichens, glued in ...

The type of bird you wish to have nesting in your yard will be determined largely by the kind of habitat you live in. Chickadees; titmice; white-breasted nuthatches; and red-bellied, downy and ...

Our home in Northbrook is now surrounded by nesting birds. These include a family of robins nesting atop a rain gutter, ...

The first broods of bluebirds, Carolina wrens, and chickadees have fledged. So should we rid the nest boxes of old nest material and all its mess as soon as babies fledge? Research says ...

Chickadees with beaks over an inch long ... sometimes to the point of starvation. Nesting birds with this problem have trouble not only collecting food for nestlings, but also with feeding ...

a pair of tree swallows nesting in the martin house by our backyard pond, chickadees nesting in the bluebird house on the porch and another cavity nester — Carolina wrens —setting up ...