When you think of animals that build nests, your mind likely travels to birds. However, while it is true that birds are one ...

Birds can nest in inconvenient spots like flower pots, planters, and hanging baskets. There are rules against disturbing ...

Nest-building isn't just instinct. Birds can learn from others, letting groups within one species develop their own distinctive nest-building traditions. Accessibility links.

Dr. Rohwer is the curator of birds and mammals at the Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates. Most birds go to great lengths to hide their nests. So when I find one, invariably so carefully ...

Even today, not all birds build nests. Male emperor penguins keep the egg of their partner in a pouch for just over two months. Australian mallee fowl build huge mounds in which to warm their eggs.

Now a study suggests culture might play a role in avian architecture, too. Researchers analyzed more than 400 structures built by 43 different groups of White-browed Sparrow-Weavers in the ...

One other example of “birds not of a feather nesting together” involves an invasive species: English sparrows, also known as house sparrows.

Two Common Swifts were found in nests built by House Martin in the town of Mayenne, north-west France, in June 2025. The ...

The researchers analyzed rare fossils of hatchling birds found in northern Alaska, which offered the earliest evidence of the creatures reproducing in a polar region ...

Birds in colder environments build bigger, thicker, more insulating nests than their warm-weather counterparts. The new study introduces a third possible variable: avian tradition.

Cultural traditions, not genetics or environment, inform nest architecture among white-browed sparrow weaver birds Summary author: Walter Beckwith ...