Birds exhibit a wide variety of fascinating nesting and offspring-rearing behaviors throughout their lifecycle. Against the odds, they protect and guide their young from hatching to leaving the nest ...

A chatty pair of gray catbirds built their nest in a large honeysuckle bush near my back door this spring. They often bathed ...

The SPCA of Monterey County is urging drivers to be cautious of fledgling sea gulls near roads, as the young birds are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A pair of binoculars, some snacks and a birdspotting guide (book or app) are the essentials to a successful first day of birding.

Despite the prolonged miserable weather during the so-called “spring”, the deciduous trees leafed out nicely, birds sing, and woodland flowers begin to bloom. On my home pond I’ve seen several broods ...

Bird nesting happens in spring. That's common knowledge, right? Actually, it's not always the case. Even though we associate nesting birds with springtime, some birds do nest and lay eggs in other ...

A rescued rare albino cardinal in Pennsylvania may soon become a new ambassador for wildlife education. The fledgling bird ...

Unlike most other bird species, the brown-headed cowbird (Molothrus ater) lays its eggs in the nests of other bird species and leaves the host to raise its young—a behavior known as brood parasitism.

A bird has flown non-stop, apparently, from Alaska to the Australian state of Tasmania. And now this young bar-tailed godwit — a member of the sandpiper family — appears to have set a non-stop ...

A new study of North American songbirds finds that birds can't keep up with the earlier arrival of spring caused by climate change. As a result, they're raising fewer young. By the end of the 21st ...