Nesting boxes were an important factor in rebuilding wood duck numbers during the 20th century. (Steve Knight/Tyler Morning Telegraph) I got the great idea last fall to build a wood duck box for a ...

Want to have an owl nest in your backyard? It's time to start to thinking about building a nesting box for your backyard. Surprisingly, winter is the best time to put up an owl nesting box. You could ...

There they were, bluebird houses on top of many of the fence posts that lined the road just west of Bickleton, the self-proclaimed Bluebird Capital of the World. It’s spring, and thousands of ...

Natural predators come in all sizes, shapes and classes. There are generalists that eat whatever they can get a hold of to specialists that just hunt and consume certain species in a particular way.

The Bluebird is New York's state bird, and it needs residents' help to maintain and grow numbers here. The reason the birds are losing habitat, is because they like to nest in cavities of old trees.

One doesn't simply go out and build a nest box all willy-nilly. The box must be planned. The kind of bird it would attract must be considered -- because of its size and shape. What seasons will it be ...

The American Kestrel, a tiny, colorful raptor, is declining in the state, and the Harris Center for Conservation Education is ...

SUPERIOR NATIONAL FOREST — One plywood box at a time, Michael Joyce and his field assistant, Reid Siebers, are trying to solve a north woods enigma. So this month and next, they will be humping dozens ...