If you adore feathered creatures, attracting a variety of birds to your yard might sound like pure bliss. But what if you discover one of their eggs on the ground? A lot of us have the natural ...

Perhaps the most famous nest hijacker in the bird world, the common cuckoo has even given rise to the phrase “cuckooing.” A female cuckoo carefully watches her host bird, usually small songbirds like ...

Three burgundy speckled eggs are in a bird's nest - Kdp/Getty Images No matter how many birdhouses you hang around your yard, birds will make a nest anywhere they feel safe. In your trees or bushes?

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 ...

America’s national bird added a new chapter to its closely watched nesting season this week after a well-known bald eagle pair laid a second egg at their California nest — a moment captured live as ...