The American robin is a common sight in the spring in summer, with its bright rust colored breast and recognizable song. The birds are now in the middle of their nesting season, and might be building ...

Barbara & Dan Gleason Spring is when most birds court, breed and raise young, and they must find — or build — a safe place for eggs and nestlings. Nearly all birds use a nest of some kind, ...

Honest as a robin on a springtime windowsill,” sang Randy Travis in the hit song, “Deeper than the Holler.” Turns out the robin isn’t an automatic harbinger of spring. However, that little bugger ...

In the spring, robins living on an Illinois tree farm sat on some unusual eggs. Alongside the customary brilliant blue ovoids they had laid were some unusually shaped objects. Although they had the ...

“Do birds reuse their nests? asks Birds & Blooms reader Liza Peniston of Augusta, Kansas. The short answer is that it depends on the species. Some large birds may use the same nest for years, but most ...

Just outside my home-office window, I noticed a bird’s nest about 4 feet high in some leafless shrubbery on a cold, winter’s day. I had not seen the nest in summer when it was hidden by green ...

Outside my dining room window a robin is building a nest. Every morning, I stand in silence, watching in awe as nature takes its course. She flies in and out of the leafless dogwood tree with bits of ...

Look at that spot-chested young robin, hopping blithely across the lawn, stopping here and there as it searches for a meal. And take note of a young blue jay perched on a branch, gulping down a ...

To many, seeing a robin is an early sign of spring. (Is that true? We break down the facts — and myths — behind the “first robin of spring.”) As a result, some people believe that the robin bird ...

Just a few days ago, I got a call from a neighbor living just one half mile away whom I had not met. She needed help in knowing what to do about a baby bird that had come out of the nest. This is one ...

Uncrowned is a new destination for all things MMA, boxing, wrestling, and more, featuring Ariel Helwani. On the same spring day in Wisconsin, from Kenosha to Superior and in habitats from wild to ...

Spring is top breeding season for many animals, and if you start noticing different nests around your home, here is how to differentiate common ones.