Lots of animals get killed crossing roads every year. This results in lots of dead animals, damaged cars, injured or dead people, and lots...

Summer in the Northern Hemisphere seems to be leaving few areas unscathed. Whether you’re getting too much rain or not enough, you’re probably spending...

Nickerson Beach, Nassau County, New York, July 2011 Common Terns nest in colonies.  The sheer number of birds packed together offer some protection to...

The Killdeer is a wide-ranging plover. It breeds across much of North America, is present year-round in the Caribbean, northern Central America, and the...

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...