These elaborate constructions are just some of the birds' nests found at the Natural History Museum in Tring, UK, one of the ...

Nests: They rest in cup-shaped moss nests placed in a tree cavity. Identification: These small songbirds are quintessential black and white birds. They are white with heavy black stripes all over ...

The Italian ecologist knew the trash hung from the nests of a certain bird, the black kite. But why? Many species of birds decorate their nests to attract a mate—but kites already have partners ...

A museum curator with a ladder showed that birds that build cavity-style nests are able to protect their eggs with the skin shed by snakes. By Kate Golembiewski In 1889, the naturalist Allan ...