“A mourning dove was sitting on two eggs in my holly tree for two or three weeks. One day, she left the two eggs behind and never came back. After a few days, the eggs were gone too. Why would the ...

When researchers used GPS devices to monitor the nests of Hawaiian honeycreepers, they found dozens of cases of brazen avian burglary. By Sara Novak When Mauna Loa erupted in 1855, it enveloped native ...

Among the thousands of bird species there is great variation in nesting habits: Some nest in burrows, or tree cavities and nest boxes, or mounds of decaying vegetation and so on. Most birds build some ...

A chatty pair of gray catbirds built their nest in a large honeysuckle bush near my back door this spring. They often bathed ...

There is something faintly unsettling about finding snakeskin threaded through a bird’s nest. A curl of translucent scales tucked among feathers and dry grass feels out of place, almost staged. Yet ...