Once your yard provides shelter, structure, and natural food sources, feeders can serve as supporting features to attract ...

One of the tiniest birds plays a surprisingly large role in conservation advancement. Hummingbirds are beloved by many. Because the public is so fond of these gorgeous little birds, they help draw ...

Ever wondered why hummingbirds aren't using your birdhouse? You might be surprised to learn that these teeny feathered garden visitors don't like to build nests in them. Instead, they construct ...

It’s a cold, foggy February morning, and Bev LaBelle is on the hunt for hummingbirds. Walking along a trail in Southeast Portland’s Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge, she pauses as a flicker of movement ...

When most people think of bird nests, they picture a tea-cup-sized structure built of grass and twigs. Many nests, in fact, do resemble grassy cups, but the full range of bird nests embraces ...

As ornithologists and most birders know, hummingbirds are tiny but mighty – mighty as in mighty aggressive. These small birds have rightly earned their warlike reputation because they viciously defend ...

A Baltimore oriole nest made of mostly horse hair, and only horse hair, is the best bird nest I have ever seen. It was found in a tree in the yard of a friend. Alex, who showed me the nest, lives on ...