Look at that spot-chested young robin, hopping blithely across the lawn, stopping here and there as it searches for a meal. And take note of a young blue jay perched on a branch, gulping down a ...

Walking along a river trail recently, some birding friends and I stopped to stare in astonishment at an unusual sight, a hummingbird flitting near the base of a big oak. Almost at ground level, she ...

The American robin is one of the most familiar backyard birds in the U.S.—so familiar, in fact, it’s the official state bird of Connecticut, Wisconsin, and Michigan. With their bright orange bellies ...

Gardening during the winter is an altogether different experience compared to the summer. Throughout the warmer months you ...

Robins are ground-foraging birds, so changing the way you feed them could attract more to your yard. Find out what type of feeder is best for robins.

If you live in a city or suburb, it can be hard to feel surrounded by nature. But next time you step outside, pause, look and listen — even in the most densely populated areas, birds are almost ...

For birds, the spring and summer months are spent establishing a nesting territory, attracting a mate, building a nest and raising one or more broods of young. Nesting cycles vary with different ...

An American robin infuriates me every morning when it raids the tray of mealworms that I’ve placed on a pole to feed my nesting bluebirds. I know the robin needs nutrition to energize its own nest ...

Outside my dining room window a robin is building a nest. Every morning, I stand in silence, watching in awe as nature takes its course. She flies in and out of the leafless dogwood tree with bits of ...

In the spring, robins living on an Illinois tree farm sat on some unusual eggs. Alongside the customary brilliant blue ovoids they had laid were some unusually shaped objects. Although they had the ...