Golden-crowned kinglets are the tiniest songbirds that can survive a Maine winter. They do so by making lots of babies, perpetuating the species despite the high mortality induced by harsh winter ...

The nest of an eastern phoebe with four phoebe eggs and one cowbird egg. My phoebes hate me. I can’t say I blame them. It’s been a tough year. Eastern phoebes love to nest under cover. Is there a ...

The year that Ohio became a state, 1803, the first bird was banded in North America. The subject was an endearing little flycatcher known as the eastern phoebe. Pre-European settlement, phoebes sited ...

This phoebe nest was over 20 feet high on a pump house enclosed with high voltage fences. To check on the nest, the team used a mirror attached to a pole. (Courtesy Malia Reiss) This phoebe nest was ...

I open the pantry door and the eastern phoebe flies off the nest. Her cup-shaped home is made of mud, covered in moss and cantilevered over a glass light fixture – an avian Fallingwater. Her nest ...

New details are emerging on how birds are adapting to humans and it includes eating cat food as well as using human hair and fishing line for nests. Dubbed “Project Phoebe,” the research by Sage ...

Walking along a trail in a northern Illinois woodlands, I noticed the silhouette of our earliest arriving migratory flycatcher. It’s not a colorful bird — Its body and wings are grayish-brown, its ...

A major study published this month in the journal Science shows that North American bird populations are in steep decline, with 75% of species affected. Most alarmingly, common birds —the species that ...

A nest was assaulted. Was it the cowbird or the sparrow? Credit...Michelle Mildenberg Supported by By Daryln Brewer Hoffstot Ms. Hoffstot is a freelance writer living on a farm in western Pennsylvania ...