The difference between nesting boxes and birdhouses can be difficult to define. For example, it might seem obvious that a nesting box is somewhere for birds to nest and lay eggs, but what's a birdbox?

The University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Extension in Pinellas County is hosting nest box building events before the owl’s breeding season starts. Andrea Kiernan attended a nest ...

Want to have an owl nest in your backyard? It's time to start to thinking about building a nesting box for your backyard. Surprisingly, winter is the best time to put up an owl nesting box. You could ...

In about six weeks, cavity-nesting birds such as chickadees and bluebirds will begin collecting nesting material to build their nests. So it’s time to build or buy some nest boxes so the birds have ...

Nest boxes are a great way to observe your backyard birds. In fact, you will see behaviors that you never would have simply by feeding them. While the dynamics between different species at the feeder ...

Birds instinctively know where to find shelter, but we can help them survive a tough winter, writes Hans Kunze.

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 ...

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 ...

I’m suffering from the common birders’ affliction I like to call “empty nest box syndrome.” It’s a disheartening malady; it occurs when you put up a perfectly good nest box and birds don’t move in.

ST. LOUIS — On March 30, 1927, the eastern bluebird was officially designated the Missouri state bird by an act of the Missouri Legislature because it was "common in Missouri" and "a symbol of ...

Robert Robinson works as an Associate Director at the British Trust for Ornithology, which collates of the citizen science-based data that underpins much of the analyses discussed here. Swifts need ...

About a month ago I described an active nest box in my grandson’s backyard. A pair of tufted titmice had built a nest and incubated and hatched five eggs. I promised an update on the nest’s fate; all ...