Natural, native habitat materials are the best nest materials to leave out for birds, if you leave anything at all. We'll ...

Springtime is nesting season, and birds will be busy. Growing plants and leaving natural debris around your yard are the best ...

Sometimes backyard hosts feel compelled to help birds with this big project, offering potential nesting materials. Recognizing the urge, marketers jumped in, offering balls, bales, and bundles of ...

“With this situation, many of the bird nest farmers have quit,” Mr. Suhardi said. “They sell their houses and the land at a cheap price.” Now, many of the birdhouses around Singkawang ...

But if you catch a bird starting to nest, say, over your front door and it’s your house’s only entrance, you can remove nest material as soon as you notice it. You can also avoid encouraging ...

After my neighbor’s death last year, a backhoe demolished the house and nearly all the old trees along with it. I worried about what would happen to the birds now that so many nesting sites were ...

Plus, we also reveal the bird boxes we don't recommend. The best materials for bird nest boxes are harder types of wood, such as cedar, oak or beech, at least 15mm thick, or woodcrete (a waterproof ...

The cheery and sociable house sparrow is more closely associated ... It aggressively defends nest cavities, possibly to the detriment of native species. It is more gregarious in winter.

The NestWatch project at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology documents when and where birds are nesting. The evidence from recent years shows that birds are nesting weeks earlier than they used to and ...

Some migratory species, such as the marsh warbler, have an international repertoire. These birds nest in Europe but migrate to Africa in winter. Although the marsh warbler imitates some European ...

Plus, we also reveal the bird boxes we don't recommend. The best materials for bird nest boxes are harder types of wood, such as cedar, oak or beech, at least 15mm thick, or woodcrete (a waterproof ...