Birds can be attracted to your home simply by offering food, water and shelter. Trees and shrubs that yield fruit, berries, seeds, nuts and...

With all the crazy stuff going on in the world these days, I thought it would  be nice to put a smile on some...

Unlike cavity nesting ducklings which hatch precocial (eyes open, covered with down and ready to go), most cavity nesting birds hatch altricial. They are...

My nestling Red-shafted Northern Flickers (Colaptes auratus) are around two weeks old now and the adults are still entering the nestbox to feed them....

Continuing my Northern Flicker (Collaptes auratus) nestling observations from my last post, I was amazed at what I found when I opened the nest box this...

As some of you may know, I have been monitoring about 35 nest boxes on three Bluebird Trails going on seven years now. Over the...

Every few years I am lucky enough to have Violet-green Swallows (Tachycineta thalassina) take up residence on one of my Bluebird trails. This year...

According to Wikipedia, birds (class Aves) are feathered, winged, two-legged, warm-blooded, egg-laying vertebrates. The fossil record indicates that birds emerged within the theropod dinosaurs...