The Italian ecologist knew the trash hung from the nests of a certain bird, the black kite. But why? Many species of birds decorate their nests to attract a mate—but kites already have partners ...

Each year, these birds typically build new, bowl-shaped nests using leaves, rushes and reeds. But, while nesting in cities, they often supplement these natural, biodegradable materials with man ...

Plastic waste has let common coots reuse nests year after year. Scientists have now used the trash layers to date how old nests are.

Members of the public can now tune in again this year to ‘Nestflix’, two new livestreams which show pairs of Chough as they go about building their nests, raising their young and carrying out noisy ...

Since plastic never truly disappears, every bit of old nesting material remains as the birds stack new layers of material, one breeding season after another. Scientists have previously used ...

We could see a nest, too, now that we were looking closely, and an adult bird suddenly flew in, exciting the young hawks, who ...

began exhibiting "strange" behavior last month when staffers noticed the bird forming a nest and sitting on a large rock. Day after day, the determined bird sat on the rock, which was hospitably ...