Clutch size and breeding success was related to nest-box size in 215 nests of Tengmalm's owl in the Kauhava region, western Finland in 1966-82. In vole peak years, but not in other years, mean clutch ...

Do you enjoy watching wild birds in your yard? Most Arkansans do, and now is a perfect time to enhance those opportunities by building and installing nest boxes around your property. Many birds in The ...

Birds primarily use nesting boxes to raise their young in spring and summer, but a simple change can turn the abandoned ...

Simon Cherriman was six years old when he first became fascinated by birds. He was lying in bed, sick with chickenpox, when a tiny silvereye flew into his window and stunned itself. "My mum brought it ...

Feeders, water and birdhouses are three good ways to bring birds to your yard. The latter offers pleasures the former do not. Birds that nest in houses or boxes are obligate cavity nesters: obligated ...

Now's the time to put up your birdhouses. Nesting time for most birds is primarily from mid-April to the end of July. (Serge A. McCabe/2002) CORVALLIS, Ore. - It would be nice to say, "Hang a ...

Contrary to expectations, the size of the Blue Tits' nests is unrelated to their breeding success. The researchers behind a forthcoming study in The Auk: Ornithological Advances spent 18 years making ...

So how did humans start building nest boxes? As they started building structures, certain species like the House Sparrow, House Martin, Barn Swallow and Barn Owl took to human-built structures to ...

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.