The thunder rolled and lightning danced among the jagged peaks as a summer rainstorm soaked the alpine meadows of California’s Sierra Nevada. Our parkas were zipped tight and heads down as we plodded ...

Take a peek into the always entertaining lives of birds, from intimate moments with mates to fierce fights for territory.

Cowbird mothers abandon their eggs in the nests of other bird species, but the chicks somehow manage to find their flock and learn what they really are. By Elizabeth Preston In P.D. Eastman’s classic ...

Within the range of more ordinary cup-like woven nests, there is a lot of variation in construction, using different materials Among the thousands of bird species there is great variation in nesting ...