Just outside my home-office window, I noticed a bird’s nest about 4 feet high in some leafless shrubbery on a cold, winter’s day. I had not seen the nest in summer when it was hidden by green ...

A variety of birds build cup nests, which are often held steady by a base of twigs, bark shreds, grasses and mosses. They’re also held together by a layer of mud, spiderwebs, fur and hair.

Birds build their nests out of everything from twigs and mud to spider silk. Some birds don’t even build a nest, and the places where they do build them can vary.

The organisers of an initiative aimed at reversing a decline in numbers of house martins are asking members of the public to ...

Some species’ nests are primarily made of mud. The cliff swallow, which often nests in large colonies under bridges, overpasses and culverts in North Georgia, is the master mason of the bird world.

Part of the fun of providing birdhouses is offering up bits and fluff for your guests to build a nest with. But some materials people often share aren't safe.

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

Birds: Go with a birding group to learn species and vocalizations If you spot a nest situated in a shrub or tree fork or out on a horizontal limb that has a mud-lined interior, chances are it was ...

Birds, like people, build to suit, though birds are wa-a-ay more interested in camouflage than are we humans. Just as we have our styles of wood, adobe or brick, so do the birds: twig nests (warblers ...