ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Birds In Helping Hands has rescued several chicks, including great blue herons, from 7 nests that were cut down by tree trimming companies in the past week in Pinellas County, ...

People often ask about seasonal limitations for tree care. We tend to think of it in terms of tree pest and disease concerns: Pruning certain disease-prone trees during the dry season to reduce the ...

Once leaves drop in the fall, spotting nests in deciduous trees is easy. But birds likely didn’t build every structure you see: North American tree squirrels also construct treetop nests, called dreys ...

Vanessa Hunt, co-author of Life in Season, showed Helen how to make an adorable Bird Nest ornament to adorn your holiday tree or table this year! Supplies: Unfinished wood craft birds (can be ...

SAUKVILLE – Prairies are rich wildlife habitats. They are so bountiful, in fact, sometimes they even host species that evolved to breed elsewhere. For proof we need only look at two restored ...

Nests can be found anywhere birds are found. Here, many of our species are forest nesters appreciative of the leafy camouflage protecting them from predators. They come in all sizes from the large ...

I recently heard a lecture by Jim McCormac, a biologist with the Ohio DNR. He argued that caterpillars, forest birds, and trees were dependent upon each other for survival. Each spring, deciduous ...

A white-browed sparrow weaver inspects a roost under construction, after just receiving some grass brought by another member of its group. (Maria Cristina Tello-Ramos) Neighboring groups of birds ...

Birds have learned to adapt to any environment and build a nest anywhere that fits their needs. Each species has their own unique nesting habits, but many are incredible architects, able to construct ...

The bird whose nest-making I witnessed was the one whose performance I chose to consider a welcome, and his home was in the pine grove, a group of about twenty trees, left from the original forest, ...

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 ...