Want to have an owl nest in your backyard? It's time to start to thinking about building a nesting box for your backyard. Surprisingly, winter is the best time to put up an owl nesting box. You could ...

Want to have an owl nest in your backyard? It's time to start to thinking about building a nesting box for your backyard. Surprisingly, winter is the best time to put up an owl nesting box. You could ...

Gardens will be a perfect place for the birds to raise a family if one gardening job gets ticked off the list before the end ...

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 depends.

The difference between nesting boxes and birdhouses can be difficult to define. For example, it might seem obvious that a nesting box is somewhere for birds to nest and lay eggs, but what's a birdbox?

Purple martins are moving in. They are arriving to occupy multiunit nest boxes that Houston-area residents have installed to welcome them. Before Europeans arrived in North America, Native Americans ...

Ms. Renkl is a contributing Opinion writer who covers flora, fauna, politics and culture in the American South. Spring is proceeding apace in this yard, despite my worst fears. For 28 of the 29 years ...

The We Energies peregrine falcon family is growing. Two new chicks hatched Friday morning at the utility's Oak Creek Power Plant nest box. The two chicks are the first to be born this season in the We ...