Most baby birds stay in the nest for at least 10 days in the nest before flying off on their own. For birds like Baltimore orioles , bluebirds and rose-breasted grosbeaks , this happens typically ...

The first broods of bluebirds, Carolina wrens, and chickadees have fledged. So should we rid the nest boxes of old nest material and all its mess as soon as babies fledge? Research says, that ...

The two wrens in the accompanying photo were #3 and #4, and they left at 7:14 and 7:16 a.m. Baby #5 didn’t tarry, emerging three minutes later. Then, nothing.

Similar in appearance and song to one another, yet occupying different habitats where their ranges overlap, wrens of all ...

The wren nest in the chickadee box came to a bad end, too, as it turns out. First there was an egg, and then there wasn’t an egg, which makes me think the rose thorns weren’t as much of a ...

The house wrens that chose our yard for nesting this spring furnished a bungalow. In early July, for their second nest, they pushed and pulled sticks into what has to be considered a mansion. The ...