An agile songbird darting through India's urban gardens and scrublands, flicking its upright tail and showing off its rich black plumage with striking orange-red patches. The Indian Robin is a small, ...

A honking force of nature, these large waterfowl are as much at home on suburban lawns as they are in wild wetlands. The Canada Goose is a large, handsome wildfowl species with a long black neck and ...

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 ...

Most Blue Jays stay put in winter, but some migrate, by day and in loose flocks, mostly to the south and southwest. Here is what banding shows about which jays go and where, the huge flights along the ...

Baby Mourning Doves hatch blind and thinly covered in down after 14 days of incubation, are fed crop milk and then seeds by both parents, and leave the nest at about two weeks old. The male keeps ...

Baby Blue Jays hatch naked after 17 to 18 days and leave the nest at 17 to 21 days, before they can fly well. Their parents feed them for one to two months. A young jay hopping on the ground is ...

Blue Jays eat nuts more than anything else, above all acorns, plus insects, corn and fruit, and a little of almost everything else. Here is what stomach studies found month by month, why jays are so ...

One of the world’s most widespread birds and has been valued and cherished by humans for at least five millennia. Domesticated and trained for sport and transporting messages, these birds originated ...

Black-capped Chickadees nest in tree holes they usually dig themselves in rotten wood, or in nest boxes. The female builds a nest of moss and fur, lays usually 6 to 8 white eggs with reddish-brown ...

A group of magpies is traditionally a "tidings", the only magpie term in the medieval lists of proper terms, first recorded around 1452. Parliament, mischief and gulp are modern. To birdwatchers it is ...

Blue Jays nest in trees, usually 10 to 25 feet up, in an open cup of twigs lined with rootlets. The female lays 2 to 7 bluish, olive or buff eggs spotted with brown and incubates them alone for 17 to ...

Mourning Doves nest from late winter to fall in trees, shrubs, gutters, flower pots and on the ground, on a flimsy platform the female builds from twigs the male hands her. The clutch is always two ...