A pair of eastern bluebirds. Source: Claudine Lamothe, via Flickr. Distributed under a CC BY-NC 2.0 license. Birdsong is often thought of as a male trait, but new research is changing that idea.

Observant people have probably noticed Eastern bluebirds already checking out possible nesting locations. These cavity-nesting birds begin scouting for possible nest sites in February and March. By ...

Extrapair paternity has been the focus of numerous studies of socially monogamous birds, but the dynamics of extrapair male-female interactions have been explored in relatively few. In western ...

It’s just a few days after Mother’s Day and all I can say is, “Thank the Lord I’m not a mama Eastern Bluebird!” I say that because watching a clutch of baby bluebirds just hatched at my home near ...

In the early part of April, there were sometimes two dozen mallards on my mostly icy home pond. There was one male who was not fully “dressed’” —while all the other males in the group had long since ...

My friends Jim and Virginia Sowell, who live in the Oak Grove section of Atlanta, wrote to say that they put up a new bluebird nest box last week after a flying squirrel had chewed up the old one.

During the recent snowstorms, ARBird-L participants posted about finding dead bluebirds in their bluebird boxes. Bluebirds are cavity-nesting birds, but they do not typically remain in a cavity or ...

A pair of eastern bluebirds. Source: Claudine Lamothe, via Flickr. Distributed under a CC BY-NC 2.0 license. Birdsong is often thought of as a male trait, but new research is changing that idea.