These elaborate constructions are just some of the birds' nests found at the Natural History Museum in Tring, UK, one of the ...

Carolina chickadees are common in the southeastern United States. Tufted titmice are related to the chickadees, but they lack the black ... birds, especially when defending their nests ...

The Italian ecologist knew the trash hung from the nests of a certain bird, the black kite. But why? Many species of birds decorate their nests to attract a mate—but kites already have partners ...

White-browed sparrow weavers, a species of social bird, assemble complex roosts and nests from grass–hanging dozens across their small territories of one to a few trees. Yet not all of these ...

Here’s how it works. Predatory birds called black kites have an unusual decorating style: They line their nests with bits of white plastic. Now, a new study suggests that this lining of litter ...

In his research on the common coot, a water bird often found in Dutch canals, he had discovered nests containing windshield wipers, sunglasses, plastic carnations, condoms and envelopes used to ...

A museum curator with a ladder showed that birds that build cavity-style nests are able to protect ... caretakers of a black bear cub are using extraordinary measures to keep him from becoming ...