Perhaps the most famous nest hijacker in the bird world, the common cuckoo has even given rise to the phrase “cuckooing.” A female cuckoo carefully watches her host bird, usually small songbirds like ...

Brian Cosby from the Provide & Protect channel says he gets the same question over and over: what do you do with old birds ...

To someone watching birds casually, the cuckoo’s behaviour looks almost lazy. Instead of gathering twigs, lining a nest, and ...

What is smaller than the width of a dime and weighs less than half a gram? That would be the egg of an Allen’s hummingbird. This tiny bird lays tiny eggs and lives in tiny nests. We are fortunate ...

A once-extinct bird is laying eggs in the wild for the first time in nearly 40 years. Sihek, a now-endangered bird returned to the wild in 2024, has laid wild eggs in its new home in Hawaii, according ...

CHICAGO — It’s springtime, and the birds are chirping as they begin to build their nests. Researchers say the hands-on clock is turning back, though it happens like clockwork each year. Many species ...

Animals reproduce in a variety of fascinating ways. Some species, including humans and many other mammals, give birth to live ...

DEAR JOAN: I just finished a book, “Wild Moms” by Carin Bondar. In the book, the author states that in mother birds, many aspects of the egg composition can be directly manipulated by the mothers ...