The thought that such a small creature could feel safe enough in our presence to raise its young is heartwarming, indeed — but not all clusters of twigs and leaves you spot in your trees are birds’ ...

A spotted towhee’s diet primarily consists of insects, spiders, caterpillars, seeds, berries; sometimes small lizards ... This bird builds a nest on or near the ground using leaves, stems, pine ...

Bird nests can vary from crude and simple to intricate and complex. Predators, weather, habitat and the availability of materials are contributing factors to the nest location and design.

At CES 2025, Wonder launched the Petal, a small wireless solar-powered Wi-Fi outdoor camera that can take pictures and videos of insects buzzing about. You may like I love watching birds with the ...

Dear Joan: Recently, I noticed four small mounds of bird seed deposited in the fake lawn in my backyard.Neighbors have bird feed feeders in their yard, and I asked them to look at the seed. It was ...

In the thorny acacia trees of the Kalahari Desert, avian construction crews are hard at work. White-browed sparrow weavers, a species of social bird, assemble complex roosts and nests from grass ...

Pygmy owls are an adorably small bird species that make their home in Europe. Their habitat spans as far north as Norway and east into China. But the tiny bird of prey now has a new home base: the ...

But here, we have a bird potentially mimicking an insect, a vertebrate mimicking an invertebrate,” Taylor said. While the study described a single observation, the researchers hope to test their ...