Providing bird food during spring migration and into the breeding season offers the opportunity for colorful visitors of ...

Soak cotton balls in an essential oil. Peppermint and lemon scents can repel birds, but you'll have to replace the cotton ...

Birds with “house” built into their names are, not surprisingly, common urban residents. Three such birds found in Minnesota include the house wren, house finch and house sparrow. Here’s a quick bio ...

If you've spent the time making your yard more attractive to birds, it's likely you've got a couple of nests. But sometimes ...

These birds are so commonplace that they are often taken for granted, but, in fact, the purple martin is a very interesting ...

Purple martins are gorgeous backyard birds, known for their iridescent feathers and mid-sky acrobatics. As North America’s ...

One bird spectacle readily observable in Allegheny County right now comes in the form of 100 purple martins swirling above ...

Tompkins County in New York State is arguably the best birded county in North America. Cornell University, with its Cornell Lab of Ornithology located there in Ithaca, has produced numerous ...

Provide wet mud for house martins and swallows: “If you have house martins or swallows or they’re close-by in a neighbouring ...

A garden wildlife expert has shared a number of tips to help birds during extremely hot and dry conditions this summer - and ...

Ideally, you should position your bird feeder around 10 feet away from trees or shrubs to prevent squirrels from jumping onto ...

The UK is preparing for its third heatwave this week, with temperatures likely to top 30C in some areas of the UK once again.