In this 2024 photo provided by the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, baby robins are seen in a nest. If you find a baby bird on the ground, there are a few things you should do, per the DWR. | ...

First determine if the baby bird is a nestling or fledgling. The arrival of spring brings many changes to our natural surroundings. Flowers bloom, barren trees fill with leaves, and occasionally, baby ...

A baby bird falls out of its nest onto the ground — what should you do? A well-meaning person may want to help out, but sometimes it's best to just let nature be. Breeding season is in full swing ...

Developing baby birds may be able to sense danger and “warn” other unhatched birds in the same nest about nearby predators, according to a new study. It sounds like one of those mysterious, ...

Nests are generally thought of as a bird’s home, but it is more appropriate to consider them a nursery for raising baby birds. S.K. Winnicki, a Ph.D. candidate in avian evolutionary ecology at the ...

THIS IS THE TIME of year when my yard feels bursting with life, as the neighborhood welcomes eastern phoebes, ruby-throated hummingbirds, and broad-winged hawks back from their long migrations. At the ...

I was putting out my bird feeders a few years ago when I noticed him. A tiny, fluffy baby bird stoically sitting on the seed-covered dirt in my backyard. I didn’t know what to do. Did I pick him up ...

You’ve probably heard it dozens of times: “You can never touch a baby bird! If a human’s scent gets on the baby, its parents ...

Clues to secrets of the bird's short life—how much attention it needed from its parents and whether it could fly—are held in its tiny bones. The hatchling from the Enantiornithes group of prehistoric ...

A new face in your yard? The face of some strange, pale new bird, streaky and splotchy, with no clear field marks? And you wonder who it is. Fledglings, the term for birds just out of the nest, often ...

True or false? If a human touches a baby bird or other wild animal, the mother will reject the baby and doom it to death. Most of us grew up being told that we shouldn’t touch baby birds, or other ...