The female builds the cup-like nest with mud as its foundation and lines it with grasses, twigs and other plant material before laying bright blue robin eggs. “I’ve watched American robins ...

The American Robin is one of the most common birds in North America. You’ve probably seen one in your backyard or been woken ...

Upon emerging from eggs baby chicks become hatchlings, hatchlings mature to nestlings and when ready to leave the nest nestlings develop into fledglings. The juvenile American Robin in the ...

To investigate, the team placed pairs of quail eggs in 140 nesting sites around ... and the remaining 80 were inactive open-cup American robin nests. Snake skins—provided from a local snake ...

Bird eggs sport an amazing variety of sizes, colors, and shapes. Their colors could fill an artist’s palette, from robin's ...

For this experiment, the researchers placed two quail eggs inside more than 60 nest boxes and 80 inactive American robin nests placed around the Monkey Run Natural Area in Ithaca to simulate ...

It’s a lesson in patients and nurturing that happens every spring. Mother robins sit on their nest of eggs, waiting for their hatchlings in the circle of life. Now, you can get a bird’s-eye ...