Most birds build some sort of nest where the eggs are incubated. In many species, ... In about 15 wren species, multiple nests are built within a male’s territory, ...

A catbird was skulking around the forsythia in my backyard this morning, but she was stealthy enough to keep their nest a ...

Head southwest to see a cactus wren.. Nests and Eggs. The male is serious about nest-building in spring, because it’s what helps him attract a mate. He starts constructing a few nests at once.

When the wren finishes what it must think is “good enough,” he will fly off, perhaps to build another nest for another bird. His mate-in-waiting must now take over.

By Howard Whiteman Murray State University It was an odd place for a hummingbird nest, but there it was. I typically think ...

A second nesting, however, likely will be four to six eggs. The female lays one egg per day, usually first thing in the morning. The eggs hatch in 12 days, all of them within about 24 hours.

The annual wren nesting at Mt. Hoo has been a success. For seven years now a tiny camera has allowed my wife and I to watch this miracle unfold in the 4-by-4-inch birdhouse just outside my bedroom ...

The wren nest in the chickadee box came to a bad end, too, as it turns out. First there was an egg, and then there wasn’t an egg, which makes me think the rose thorns weren’t as much of a ...

The third box, the one high in the rose arbor, held a mossy chickadee nest, carefully built on top of last year’s house wren nest. When I opened the box, the brooding female shot out the door. I ...

The next time I checked our finch nest, I was surprised to find that the cowbird egg was gone as was one of the finch eggs, leaving just three finch eggs in the nest.