An agile songbird darting through India's urban gardens and scrublands, flicking its upright tail and showing off its rich black plumage with striking orange-red patches. The Indian Robin is a small, ...

Baby Mourning Doves hatch blind and thinly covered in down after 14 days of incubation, are fed crop milk and then seeds by both parents, and leave the nest at about two weeks old. The male keeps ...

Most Blue Jays stay put in winter, but some migrate, by day and in loose flocks, mostly to the south and southwest. Here is what banding shows about which jays go and where, the huge flights along the ...

Male and female Blue Jays look the same. Males average about 3% bigger, too little to see in the field. The clues are behavior: only the female gives the dry rattle call and incubates the eggs, and in ...

Baby Blue Jays hatch naked after 17 to 18 days and leave the nest at 17 to 21 days, before they can fly well. Their parents feed them for one to two months. A young jay hopping on the ground is ...

A master diver that plunges into both freshwater and coastal habitats, this adaptable bird can be spotted on every continent except Antarctica. The Great Cormorant is a large waterbird with ...

One of the world’s most widespread birds and has been valued and cherished by humans for at least five millennia. Domesticated and trained for sport and transporting messages, these birds originated ...

Black-capped Chickadees nest in tree holes they usually dig themselves in rotten wood, or in nest boxes. The female builds a nest of moss and fur, lays usually 6 to 8 white eggs with reddish-brown ...

A group of magpies is traditionally a "tidings", the only magpie term in the medieval lists of proper terms, first recorded around 1452. Parliament, mischief and gulp are modern. To birdwatchers it is ...

Blue Jays nest in trees, usually 10 to 25 feet up, in an open cup of twigs lined with rootlets. The female lays 2 to 7 bluish, olive or buff eggs spotted with brown and incubates them alone for 17 to ...

Mourning Doves nest from late winter to fall in trees, shrubs, gutters, flower pots and on the ground, on a flimsy platform the female builds from twigs the male hands her. The clutch is always two ...

The Oregon Junco, the Slate-colored Junco and four other forms are all one species, the Dark-eyed Junco. How to recognize each one, male and female, where each lives, the Guadalupe Junco, and how ...