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 ...

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 ...

Robins nest early, low and in surprising places. The first eggs are laid around mid-April on average, as early as mid-March, and most pairs raise two broods a year. Here is when and where they nest, ...

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; ...

Seeds. About 99% of a Mourning Dove's diet is seeds, from crops or wild plants, and the little animal food it takes, mostly snails, is incidental. 1 They occasionally eat berries. 2 Where farmers grow ...

In early spring, cardinals feed on the ground for seeds in fields, meadows and leaf litter. Once the leaves open, they move up into trees and shrubs for buds and caterpillars. In fall they take fruit ...

The feral pigeon of town streets is a Rock Dove, the same species as the wild bird of sea cliffs, descended from domestic pigeons that escaped or were released. The wild type is blue-grey with two ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

What bird is singing? Let your phone listen or upload a recording, and Birdfact names the birds it hears, with their songs to ...