Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As temperatures in the Valley reach record-breaking levels, it’s not just Arizona’s human residents who are affected. Cooper’s ...
In the thorny acacia trees of the Kalahari Desert, avian construction crews are hard at work. White-browed sparrow weavers, a species of social bird, assemble complex roosts and nests from ...
Eurasian magpie and carrion crow nests made almost entirely out of anti-bird devices have been found in four European cities Michael Lee Simpson is a Digital News Writer at PEOPLE. His work has ...
Birds, like people, build to suit, though birds are wa-a-ay more interested in camouflage than are we humans. Just as we have our styles of wood, adobe or brick, so do the birds: twig nests (warblers ...
A Baltimore oriole nest made of mostly horse hair, and only horse hair, is the best bird nest I have ever seen. It was found in a tree in the yard of a friend. Alex, who showed me the nest, lives on ...
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 ...
A museum curator with a ladder showed that birds that build cavity-style nests are able to protect their eggs with the skin shed by snakes. By Kate Golembiewski In 1889, the naturalist Allan Octavian ...
Maria Cristina Tello-Ramos 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 ...