Black storks carefully choose a nesting site high in the trees, far from human disturbance. Both partners cooperate in building the nest using branches and moss. This footage captures their natural ...

A McDonald’s McChicken container from 1996. Decades-old plastic packaging. Look inside the nests of Eurasian coots, and you’ll find a surprising history of human plastic production.

DEAR HELOISE: I appreciate the recent letter about the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918. I was surprised by how many people wrote in with methods of how to discourage birds from building nests at ...

She wanted to see how social learning might affect the nest building of white-browed sparrow weavers. These highly social birds live in extended families of two to 14 individuals.

A female that is not vigorously courted will not move on to subsequent stages of reproduction, selection of a nest site, nest building, copulation, laying eggs, and incubation (1).

Osprey numbers keep climbing in Rhode Island as mating pairs find more creative places to nest along the state's busy ...

Most birds build some sort of nest where the eggs are incubated. In many species, the female does that job, and in many others both females and males participate. But in a few species, it is the ...

Nest-building isn’t just instinct. Birds can learn from others, letting groups within one species develop their own distinctive nest-building traditions.

Nest-building isn't just instinct. Birds can learn from others, letting groups within one species develop their own distinctive nest-building traditions.