Biologists present the latest innovation in nest building: bird nests made from anti-nesting spikes. Researchers from Naturalis Biodiversity Center and the Natural History Museum Rotterdam collected ...

A scrape nest on the beach made by a pair of American oystercatchers. Just like the birds that make them, bird nests come in many different forms. Depending on the size, habitat, and lifestyle of ...

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NPR's Scott Simon speaks with biologist Auke-Florian Hiemstra about his study of bird's nests that are made from anti-bird spikes. One human's trash just might be an avian's armoire. Urban birds have ...

Chipping sparrows sail in to perch regularly on the uppermost twig of one in a clump of native eastern red cedars, always a little caterpillar or bug dangling from their beaks. Then they drop down ...

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 ...

Bird hotels in Indonesia try to attract swiftlets, whose edible nests are a delicacy in China. The swiftlet nests, made of dried saliva, are used to make bird's nest soup. Farmers compete to attract ...

The Blonde Who Bakes shows us how she uses a balloon to make a nest to top off the Robin's Speckled Egg Cake.

If you live in a city or suburb, it can be hard to feel connected to nature. But next time you step outside, pause, look and listen — even in the most densely populated areas, birds are almost ...