In your endeavor to attract more birds to your yard, you may have purchased a birdhouse only to find they aren't using it. Here's why and what to do about it.

House finches and purple finches are both small birds which are native to North America. Both species have stunning red and brown plumage which means that they are easily confused for each other.

Early this spring, I hung a small bird box from a pergola rafter ten feet from my kitchen window. I had high hopes that either Carolina chickadees or house wrens (both are cavity-nesters) would ...

For that reason, I generally don’t consider them homes. But the analogy is apt, if only to convey the uniqueness of their ...

Outside the National Zoo’s Bird House, small white cotton bags hung on hooks, each holding a bird that ornithologist Brian Evans and his team had netted that Saturday morning. Now and then, they ...

Now, a small but growing number of house cats have gotten sick from H5N1, the bird flu strain driving the current U.S. outbreak, after eating raw food or drinking unpasteurized milk. Some of those ...

At one time, back in Illinois, she had 52 birds in her house. Now she’s more selective and keeps their numbers low. “I’m turning dogs away, I’m turning birds away,” she said.

U.S. diner chain Waffle House has added a 50-cent surcharge for every egg in a customer’s order, the company said in a statement posted in its restaurants on Monday.

The birds were plentiful as recently in 2010, when Yusmida converted the top two floors of her house into a home for swiftlets. But a few years later, Singkawang’s largest shopping mall was ...

There used to be a small brown bird that was always flitting around us. Dozens of these birds could be seen by anyone who spent an hour walking along the streets. The bird was the well-known house ...