The thought that such a small creature could feel safe enough in our presence to raise its young is heartwarming, indeed — ...

A bird's nest is a happy sight in a thriving garden, but looks can be deceiving. That collection of twigs may actually be home to a common garden pest.

Just as we have our styles of wood, adobe or brick, so do the birds: twig nests (warblers et al.), mud nests (swallows) and even gravel or stone nests (killdeer) or a combo, twigs and mud (robins).

Hanging from my bookcase I have a tiny nest built by a red-eyed vireo. It is perfectly round, barely two-inches wide at the opening and two-inches deep. Into a fork of a twig, it has been carefully ...

Just outside my home-office window, I noticed a bird’s nest about 4 feet high in some leafless shrubbery on a cold, winter’s day. I had not seen the nest in summer when it was hidden by green ...

A variety of birds build cup nests, which are often held steady by a base of twigs, bark shreds, grasses and mosses. They’re also held together by a layer of mud, spiderwebs, fur and hair.

It’s the Mad Max dream of a bird’s nest: A menacing composite of metal, clay, twig and plastic. Spotted in a sugar maple tree in Antwerp, Belgium, the gnarly architecture brims with at least ...

American robins build a typical twig cup nest that they coat on the outside with adobe. Many birds nest in cavities. You hope to attract one of these species if you provide a birdhouse.

Last weekend in Atchison, Kan., home décor guru Mary Carol Garrity opened up her 130-year-old Greek revival-style home to busloads of faithful customers who came from around the Midwest.

Birds build their nests out of everything from twigs and mud to spider silk. Some birds don’t even build a nest, and the places where they do build them can vary.