Conservation scientist Charles van Rees, Ph.D., explains when it is safe to remove or relocate birds nests, prioritizing the ...

If wild birds have decided to nest in an inappropriate spot in your yard, it's best to leave them be, according to an avian expert from the Audubon Society. advertisement. House Digest.

Nest materials, locations, construction styles and timing have likely evolved to specific bird species’ circumstances, geographies and lifestyles. Wild birds are generalists outside of the ...

DEAR HELOISE: Please let your readers know that it is illegal to move, destroy or tamper with bird nests, or to possess feathers or any part of wild birds. Some ...

Within the range of more ordinary cup-like woven nests, there is a lot of variation in construction, using different ...

Some birds make their nests underground — most notably, the belted kingfisher, which digs tunnels some 6 feet long into riverbanks. Cup-shaped nests are the most common types of nests made by ...

Most of the nests are composed of common, everyday bird-nest materials — twigs, straw, grasses, rootlets, pine needles, animal fur, moss and the like. Many birds, though, use additional materials.

The nest is a testament to the ingenuity and resourcefulness of wild animals in a rapidly changing world. “It really tells the story of the Anthropocene, but then from the bird’s perspective ...

“The Antwerp nest is really like a bunker for birds,” said Mr. Hiemstra, who calculated that it contained roughly 50 meters’ worth of anti-bird strips and 1,500 visible spikes.

For the new research, published on Monday in Current Biology, scientists in Japan analyzed the behavior of eight breeding pairs of the wild birds over 321 total nest visitations as the pairs ...