For parents and children interested in attracting wildlife closer to their homes, the Coveside Window Nest Box Bird House may be an option. This wooden box, available for $18.99 from www.drfostersmith ...

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 ...

Two summers ago, a patient looking out his Belgian-hospital window spied in a tree an odd, abandoned magpie nest of plastic and wire. He had, by coincidence, just read a newspaper article about a ...

The classic cup of woven sticks, like a robin nest, is just one of many types of bird nests. Shorebird and nightjar nests are barely present, just slight divots on the ground. Orioles construct some ...