Attention ladies: If you’ve ever wanted to bare your backside in the backcountry, there’s an event this month that’s specifically designed as a safe space where you can drop trou. The Boot Tan Fest on ...

Birdsong fills the air around Valentine’s Day as male birds sing sonorous melodies to woo females. Spring is near, and it’s time to get a mate. Hence, a male eastern bluebird perches on a nest box ...

This western bluebird guards her clutch of eggs in a nesting box in a natural gas field. Unable to discern whether their environment is safe due to compressor noise, mother birds must choose between ...

A charity set up to protect Bermuda’s bluebirds has appealed to the public to help them save the species. Stuart Smith, of the Bermuda Bluebird Society, said the group hoped to collect information ...

It’s just a few days after Mother’s Day and all I can say is, “Thank the Lord I’m not a mama Eastern Bluebird!” I say that because watching a clutch of baby bluebirds just hatched at my home near ...

My friends Jim and Virginia Sowell, who live in the Oak Grove section of Atlanta, wrote to say that they put up a new bluebird nest box last week after a flying squirrel had chewed up the old one.

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 ...

In the spring, long before the leaves emerge, eastern bluebirds (like this male) will scour the fields and forest edges for suitable places to raise a family. Credit: PHOTO BY BILL DANIELSON As I ...

What can we say about the marvelous month of May? In the bird world, the frenzy of spring migration is coming to an end. With clear weather dominating for most of April and early May, we simply did ...