If you want an osprey pair to nest near you, your best bet is to build an osprey platform. Find out the size and specs to ...

Neighboring groups of birds within the same species can create very different-looking nests — showing that their nest-building choices aren’t solely controlled by instinct and the environment. Instead ...

A white-browed sparrow weaver inspects a roost under construction, after just receiving some grass brought by another member of its group. (Maria Cristina Tello-Ramos) Neighboring groups of birds ...

Maria Cristina Tello-Ramos Neighboring groups of birds within the same species can create very different-looking nests — showing that their nest-building choices aren’t solely controlled by instinct ...

Sociable Weavers build the largest communal nests, housing over a hundred families. Bowerbirds create decorated bowers purely for courtship, not for raising young. Malleefowl incubate eggs using heat ...

Nest-building isn't just instinct. Birds can learn from others, letting groups within one species develop their own distinctive nest-building... When birds build nests, they're also building a culture ...

DEAR JOAN: About 10 days ago, a hummingbird began to create a nest on a mobile hanging under my patio overhang. The mobile is right in front of my kitchen window. For days, the hummingbird would come ...

Many in the scientific community have long assumed that nest-building in birds is a purely instinctive skill — an inborn ability that birds repeat from one nest to the next, regardless of their ...

Eurasian magpie and carrion crow nests made almost entirely out of anti-bird devices have been found in four European cities Michael Lee Simpson is a Digital News Writer at PEOPLE. His work has ...

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