If you feed the birds in your backyard, you may be doing more than just making sure they have a source of food: you may be helping baby birds give parasites the boot. If you feed the birds in your ...

Feb. 4 (UPI) --Backyard bird feeders help a variety of bird species survive periods of food scarcity. The easy nutrition can also help lower stress levels and boost reproductive success during mating ...

ASHEVILLE - Today's burning question is about bluebirds and whether or not to keep feeding them come spring. Got a question for Answer Man or Answer Woman? Email Interim Executive Editor Karen Chávez ...

What do you feed your bluebirds? That was the simple question in my email inbox last week. Simple question, expect a simple answer, right? Except there is no simple answer when it comes to feeding ...

The behavior of adult Eastern Bluebirds feeding nestlings and fledglings and the diet of young bluebirds were studied in southeastern Michigan from 1971 to 1973. Females fed nestlings more often than ...

ST. LOUIS — On March 30, 1927, the eastern bluebird was officially designated the Missouri state bird by an act of the Missouri Legislature because it was "common in Missouri" and "a symbol of ...

Bluebirds, year-round residents here, rank as one of our most coveted yard birds. As family-minded birds, they melt my heart. They're monogamous, mating for life. He’s devoted to her, showing her ...

In many bird species, only females incubate the eggs, but both sexes feed nestlings. The means by which males of such species discover hatching and transition to feeding their offspring remains almost ...

If you feed the birds in your backyard, you may be doing more than just making sure they have a source of food: you may be helping baby birds give parasites the boot. New research published in the ...