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, ...

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.

Sometimes it’s the little miracles we remember the most.For nearly 20 years we’ve had house wrens nesting at Mt. Hoo, so it became routine each spring knowing there was activity in the … ...

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

The wren, meanwhile, continued his rounds, moving from nest box to nest box, laying claim to them all. A female wren, if one ...

For eastern phoebes, a single nest requires so much incubating that splitting up the effort is almost sure to fail.

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 ...

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.

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 ...