First determine if the baby bird is a nestling or fledgling. The arrival of spring brings many changes to our natural surroundings. Flowers bloom, barren trees fill with leaves, and occasionally, baby ...
It usually starts with a quiet morning walk, a child’s curious shriek, or a pet tugging insistently at a bush in the backyard. There it is—tiny, fragile, and utterly helpless-looking: a baby bird, ...
Nests are generally thought of as a bird’s home, but it is more appropriate to consider them a nursery for raising baby birds. S.K. Winnicki, a Ph.D. candidate in avian evolutionary ecology at the ...
The eaglets were found stranded in the Fannie Stebbins Memorial Wildlife Refuge in Longmeadow, Mass., on Tuesday, April 29 Charna Flam is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...