Back in the 1970s British entertainer Rod Hull famously knocked a TV chat show host off his seat by attacking him with his hand puppet called Emu.

Did you know you have a birth month bird? There are 12 birds aligning with the 12 months of the year, and each one can be attracted to your yard. Here's how.

Learn which birds are most likely to settle into a birdhouse in your backyard and what you can do to make the space more ...

Almost every day, beginning in April, I make time (or an excuse) to get out somewhere in my outdoor realm in Carbon County. Birds are the reason. One family of birds that makes their return here is ...

It’s winter, and there is a wealth of vacant real estate just waiting to be explored. Not the brick-and-mortar sort, but the twig, grass and plant fiber variety. Yes, I’m talking about bird nests, and ...

I sat on the railing of the boardwalk to watch the aerial display, a display every bit as impressive as the air shows put on by the Blue Angels or Thunderbirds. All around and above me and ceaselessly ...

I sat on the railing of the boardwalk to watch the aerial display, a display every bit as impressive as the air shows put on by the Blue Angels or Thunderbirds. All around and above me and ceaselessly ...

Cliff swallows indeed prefer cliffs, building colonies of their gourd-shaped nests along the sheer vertical surfaces, but they also love concrete bridges over creeks and rivers. The underside of ...

Hosts of brood parasites defend their nests against parasitism by aggression and subsequently, if parasitized, by rejection of the parasite egg or nestling. Cuckoos have evolved plumage mimicry with ...

Within the range of more ordinary cup-like woven nests, there is a lot of variation in construction, using different materials Among the thousands of bird species there is great variation in nesting ...

An adult barn swallow has a forked tail with white spots near the bottom edge, and a rust-colored chin. Photo by Rick Lewis. When perched, an adult’s dark, shiny back contrasts with a cream-colored ...

It was an odd place for a hummingbird nest, but there it was. I typically think about such nests being ghosts, because this was the first (and only) one I had ever seen. They are so small and so well ...