Cooper's Hawk is a crow-sized hawk that hunts birds by surprise in woods, towns and backyards. Adults are blue-gray to brownish gray above, barred rusty orange below, with a dark cap and an orange to ...

Blue Tits choose a hole in February, the female builds in April and lays 8 to 10 eggs from late April, and the chicks fly at 18 to 21 days, usually in early June. This page follows a Blue Tit nest ...

Dark-eyed Juncos eat seeds above all, especially weed and grass seeds, and add insects in summer, when they feed their chicks. At feeders they like millet scattered on the ground. What they eat ...

Robins nest early, low and in surprising places. The first eggs are laid around mid-April on average, as early as mid-March, and most pairs raise two broods a year. Here is when and where they nest, ...

Seeds. About 99% of a Mourning Dove's diet is seeds, from crops or wild plants, and the little animal food it takes, mostly snails, is incidental. 1 They occasionally eat berries. 2 Where farmers grow ...

In early spring, cardinals feed on the ground for seeds in fields, meadows and leaf litter. Once the leaves open, they move up into trees and shrubs for buds and caterpillars. In fall they take fruit ...

House Finches eat almost nothing but plants: in a classic California study seeds, buds, flowers and fruit made up 97% of their diet, and even their chicks are raised on seeds. At feeders they take ...

The male Wren builds several domed nests low in thick cover, and the female chooses one and lines it with feathers. In Britain the first clutch, usually 5 or 6 eggs, is laid from mid-April, on average ...

Baby pigeons, called squabs, hatch after 16-19 days with closed eyes and a sparse coat of yellow down. Both parents feed them crop milk from the lining of the crop, then seeds. They stay hidden in the ...

A male Blackbird sings slow, mellow, whistled phrases, each usually ending in a short, scratchy twitter, most regularly from March to June and richest at dawn. Its calls include a loud chink, a low ...

Our list for Cheshire has 5 pheasants & grouse recorded regularly there: 4 residents and 1 passage migrant ...

Why the Mourning Dove is called that, what American folk beliefs said about its call (rain, love, luck and death), its names in Cherokee, Navajo and Nahuatl, the doves of the Bible, and what modern ...