Both birds and reptiles lay eggs to protect their young, but despite the basic similarities, the differences between their ...

Female brown-headed cowbirds lay eggs in other birds' nests. Find out what you should do if you see cowbird eggs.

The Jacobin Cuckoo migrates from parts of sub-Saharan Africa to the Indian subcontinent every year, usually arriving in late ...

New research from the University of Maine records small shorebirds responding aggressively to predatory deer for the first ...

Spring migration has taken flight, but with rising temperatures and shifting seasons, birds are adjusting when and how they ...

Its call used to roll off the Belfast Hills down to our house in the city every year and whoever heard it first would always ...

From males giving birth to mothers starving for their babies, the animal kingdom has some truly unbelievable pregnancy rituals.

A new study has uncovered a fundamental link between brain size and offspring size, helping to solve a long-standing evolutionary puzzle: Why do birds lay such disproportionately large eggs?

Do Birds Only Lay Eggs in Spring? Female cardinal feeding babies in the nest. Bird nesting happens in spring. That's common knowledge, right? Actually, it's not always the case. Even though we ...

Bird nests are amazing things – intricately constructed by animals from fluff, twigs, grass and lichen to make a hidden little space that's perfect for raising chicks. But some birds like to make a ...

Two osprey eggs hatched in a nest at The Marshfield Fairgrounds in Marshfield, MA. The chicks, born to adult ospreys named Hank and Lenore, are dependent on their parents for food. A live webcam ...

WTF?! Has there ever been something as apocalyptically cyberpunk as a bird nest being made from battlefield drones' fiber-optic cables? That depressing sight has been discovered in the Donbas region ...