In a robin couple, a male brings his female partner nesting material as she constructs the robins’ nest. The female builds the cup-like nest with mud as its foundation and lines it with grasses, twigs ...

European starlings, an invasive species in the U.S., lay blue eggs often mistaken for those of bluebirds or robins. Unlike native birds, starlings outcompete local species and are not protected by law ...

HAZELWOOD, Mo. — It’s a lesson in patients and nurturing that happens every spring. Mother robins sit on their nest of eggs, waiting for their hatchlings in the circle of life. Now, you can get a bird ...

Spring comes, quite reliably, but sometimes reluctantly, by fits and starts. Every year we go through a process of counting the increasing hours of daylight, checking the development of leaf buds, and ...