Many people love to support their backyard birds with food and water, but they don’t always realize they can also provide nesting materials in spring. However, choosing the right materials can be ...

Many birds call the forest understory home. The dense forest floor is the perfect setting for many types of birds to nest and ...

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Birds need water for drinking and bathing, especially as natural sources freeze or dry up. A birdbath can quickly become a ...

A good-quality seed mix brings variety and life to your garden. Choose blends with millet, sunflower hearts and cracked corn ...

Alan Titchmarsh, who took to his YouTube channel to offer some practical tips, shared four simple ways to make your garden bird-friendly, such as adding "berried plants" ...

Dear Master Gardener: I love helping the birds with nest-building material, but my neighbor says I shouldn’t leave yarn or string or dryer lint for them. True or False? Answer: True. Many of us enjoy ...

Birds use a wonderful variety of materials and techniques to create their nests. Some nests are small and tidy, like grass baskets lined with cozy feathers. Others are large and messily blobbed with ...

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 ...

Attention wildlife fans: If you want to help support wild bird populations, you might want to rethink the bird feeder. Because of a vicious salmonellosis outbreak this winter, wildlife officials in ...