We now have eggs in our bluebird nest. My wife Cindy discovered three eggs when she inspected our backyard box this week. Also, these eggs are white, which is unusual for bluebirds. Other WRAL Top ...

European starlings, an invasive species in the U.S., lay blue eggs often mistaken for those of bluebirds or robins. Unlike native birds, starlings outcompete local species and are not protected by law ...

On a fine Monday morning in May, a bluebird lays her first egg. She produces another one the next day, another on Wednesday and her fourth and last blue egg is added to her nest on Thursday. Nearly ...

Eastern bluebirds are not really blue — it's the way light waves interact with their feathers. But they are a part of Michigan's natural heritage and now that it's nesting season, they can be spotted ...

Sometime around tax day, April 15, we should have some new “dependents” in our backyard. The nest the bluebird started building that was the subject of this year’s first Bluebird Watch column and ...

PENNSYLVANIA (WHTM) — The Pennsylvania Game Commission took to Facebook earlier today to encourage people to clean and/or install their Bluebird boxes before the species starts laying their eggs for ...

Spring migration is over. It’s now prime nesting time for Georgia’s songbirds, most of which are incubating eggs or tending babies. Several year-round birds — bluebirds, cardinals, Carolina chickadees ...

Every so often we get a listener question at Something Wild. Glenn Coppelman from Kingston, New Hampshire, wanted to know about the bluebirds in his backyard. “During the warmer months, pairs of ...

DEAR JOAN: On the first day of October, I figured I could safely remove the contents of our front yard bluebird house. I was overjoyed early this summer, when I spied some tendrils of dry grass ...

Technological and theoretical advances over the past two decades have allowed researchers to quantify eggshell color in ways that were not previously possible. However, differences among studies in ...

Jim Marshall doesn’t consider himself a “serious birder.” But when it comes to nurturing Fort Worth’s bluebird population, there is no one with more experience or knowledge than Marshall, who leads a ...