When a bird drapes its nest with snake skin, it isn't just making an interesting home décor choice. For some birds, it keeps ...

Researchers used artificial nests to test two methods for reducing the nest predation of vulnerable and endangered ground-nesting birds. The study showed that red foxes can be more easily deceived ...

Q: My husband was excited when he witnessed a robin building a nest by recycling a shed skin from a snake that lives at the foundation of our house in Clarksville, Tennessee. We're not sure exactly ...

"If you have a porch, deck, garage, shed or anything with an eave, I assume phoebes have completed work on their seasonal home and moved in by now." ...

If you love attracting hummingbirds, you'll want to keep them safe. Find out which hummingbird predators to watch out for.

Wildlife specialists are stressing the role of predator guards on birdhouses to help protect eggs and chicks from animals such as snakes, raccoons, squirrels, and chipmunks, especially during nesting ...

A museum curator with a ladder showed that birds that build cavity-style nests are able to protect their eggs with the skin shed by snakes. By Kate Golembiewski In 1889, the naturalist Allan Octavian ...

Snakeskin decor is a bold interior design choice—but for some birds, it's literally a matter of life and death. This is the conclusion of researchers from New York's Cornell University, who found ...

The regent honeyeater is a beautiful bird at risk of extinction. So how can we protect it from native predators, such as ...

Picture a bird’s nest. Chances are, what comes to mind is a woven basket of twigs and plant fibers—you might not imagine a crown of metal spines. But that’s exactly how some crows and magpies in ...

From brightly colored birds to the much-loved sugar glider, Australia's native animals are a sight to behold. The island ...