However, no matter the bird variety that takes up home in your bird box, you'll likely find that, at some point, the house becomes dirty enough for a bit of deep cleaning.

A summer of birdwatching reveals nesting mysteries, territorial truce, and daily song as local species — from phoebes to ...

Early this spring, I hung a small bird box from a pergola rafter ten feet from my kitchen window. I had high hopes that either Carolina chickadees or house wrens (both are cavity-nesters) would ...

Non-native birds like house sparrows and starlings competed with purple martins for resources and nests. Purple martins nest as a colony, and human-made boxes help maintain their numbers ...