Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Credit: Peter Krumhardt After the winter, it's always a joy to see songbirds return to our yards for the spring nesting season.

With the arrival of spring, gardeners may notice greater bird activity in their gardens. This occurs because spring marks the beginning of the nesting season for birds, a period when they actively ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Costa's Hummingbirds are frequent visitors at feeders in Arizona and southern California. Julian Avery, CC BY-ND Millions of ...

The beginning of COVID-19 lockdowns forced many to seek safer ways to connect with nature, and new research shows that bird-feeding around the world dramatically increased. But is it actually okay to ...

The cluster of six bird feeders in Connie Norheim's north Fargo backyard came alive in the last hour before sunset on a recent day. A black-capped chickadee flitted down from a nearby tree branch to ...

FILE - A tufted titmouse grabs a seed from a snow covered bird feeder during a snowstorm in December 2020 in North Andover, Mass. Mark Herz: This is GBH’s Morning Edition. If it’s feeling spring-y to ...

Feeding wild birds in backyards was already known to be extremely popular in many parts of the northern hemisphere and in Australia, despite being strongly discouraged. But the COVID-19 pandemic ...

Interest in local bird feeding appears to have ramped up in countries all over the world during the pandemic lockdowns, even in countries not historically noted for bird feeding practices, according ...

If you want to attract more hungry visitors to your bird feeder, this is where you should place it in your yard.