A chatty pair of gray catbirds built their nest in a large honeysuckle bush near my back door this spring. They often bathed in the birdbath and perched on an arbor to sing their mimic-y songs before ...

Spikes placed on buildings to deter birds are being used by birds to build nests in several locations around Europe. “It sounds like a joke,” says Auke-Florian Hiemstra at the Naturalis Biodiversity ...