Any worthwhile discussion of baby birds will wisely lean heavily towards young shorebirds, which are surely among the most adorable of all immature avifauna....

Bufflehead (Bucephala albeola) Female at Cavity Entrance photos by Larry Jordan “Some 85 species of North American birds excavate nesting holes, use cavities resulting...

Mute Swans are large, white, and decorative, and as such their natural range has been significantly altered by humans who generally enjoy having them...

Life is hard for baby birds, as the world is filled with reasons why they might not make it too adulthood. Starvation and predators...

Nick Sly, a friend of 10,000 Birds who writes intermittently at the thoroughly-recommended Biological Ramblings, is an ornithologist who graduated not so long ago from...

Baby Bird week couldn’t come at a better time for someone in the High Arctic, suddenly there are birds hatching everywhere. Baby birds here,...

From time to time during the filming of our TV series we come across something totally unexpected. Mostly the unexpected event is caused by...

Why can’t a baby bird just hatch out of the egg and fly away, or at least, be able to fly a little and...