Walking along a river trail recently, some birding friends and I stopped to stare in astonishment at an unusual sight, a hummingbird flitting near the base of a big oak. Almost at ground level, she ...

A male Baltimore oriole in 2010. A Baltimore oriole by its nest. Stacey Clementz Stacey Clementz A male Baltimore oriole in 2010. A Baltimore oriole by its nest. For several years, I would drive to ...

Ornithologists have theorized that birds first began to build nests when they were unable to locate natural cavities. Of the 470 perching (passerine) birds in North America, about 25 percent use holes ...

A male and female Baltimore oriole feed their young while perched on their hanging nest, which is made of materials like thin twigs, plant cotton and bark strips. Spring is in the air — which means ...

When most people think of bird nests, they picture a tea-cup-sized structure built of grass and twigs. Many nests, in fact, do resemble grassy cups, but the full range of bird nests embraces ...

Perched on the white boards of the horse corral, a female oriole tugged again and again at a few white hairs of of our percheron horse's tail that had caught on a splinter. The long hairs must have ...

That word describes how springtime's birds must feel, migrants and residents both. The birds now flooding in from their winter homes are eager to claim territories and step up for the breeding ...