A bright rufous cap, a razor-clean white eyebrow, and a bold black eye-stripe make the breeding Chipping Sparrow one of the most crisply marked small birds in North America. Once the most common city ...

In the old records of Britain and Ireland the Blackbird stands for song in the woods (early Irish poems), a saint's gentleness (St Kevin), temptation (St Benedict), great age (the Welsh Blackbird of ...

A male Blackbird sings slow, mellow, whistled phrases, each usually ending in a short, scratchy twitter, most regularly from March to June and richest at dawn. Its calls include a loud chink, a low ...

Despite a global population of around 4 million birds, the Philadelphia Vireo remains one of North America's most overlooked songbirds — its song so similar to the abundant Red-eyed Vireo that even ...

Murmurations are the winter displays of Starlings swirling over their roost at dusk, mainly from November to February. Here is when and where to see one in the UK, why Starlings do it, and how ...

Baby pigeons, called squabs, hatch after 16-19 days with closed eyes and a sparse coat of yellow down. Both parents feed them crop milk from the lining of the crop, then seeds. They stay hidden in the ...

What it means when you see a cardinal, according to the beliefs people hold, and where those beliefs come from: the name borrowed from the Catholic Church, the Cherokee legend of the redbird as the ...

Magpies build a big domed nest of sticks high in a tree, starting as early as December. In Britain the first eggs are laid around 22 April: usually 5 or 6 pale blue-green eggs, incubated by the female ...

American Robins nest from April into July, raise two broods a year and lay three or four sky-blue eggs in a mud-lined cup. Here is when and where they nest, why the eggs are blue, how long incubation ...

Woodpigeons nest late and for a long season: in Britain the first eggs are laid on average at the end of April, and nesting carries on into September. The nest is a thin platform of twigs in a tree; ...

Cardinals stay put for the winter, so the cardinal at your feeder in January may well be a bird that nests nearby in spring. Here is where they spend the winter and how they get through the cold. No.

Male and female Tufted Titmice look the same. The difference is in behavior: the loud peter-peter-peter song comes mostly from males, and only the female builds the nest and sits on the eggs while the ...