Raising chickens in your backyard has become a trend not just for aspiring farmers, but for anyone wanting to be even a little self-sufficient. There's also something meditative about watching hens ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Feeders, water and birdhouses are three good ways to bring birds to your yard. The latter offers pleasures the former do not. Birds that nest in houses or boxes are obligate cavity nesters: obligated ...

I wanted to build a first-class home. Small enough to be cozy, but big enough to raise a family. I needed an ideal location, near a wooded area, with a natural supermarket nearby. And the design ...

Adam Whitlatch knows bluebirds, that fragile icon of spring in Montana's open spaces. "They can fly and they're blue and they sometimes hide and they have sharp claws and beaks and their nests get ...

Rare and hardly seen, boobook owls will have a new place to live following the initiative of eight Lowanna College students. The students have built four nesting boxes over the past month which will ...

I wanted to build a first-class home. Small enough to be cozy, but big enough to raise a family. I needed an ideal location, near a wooded area, with a natural supermarket nearby. And the design ...

AUGUSTA, Ga.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Over the past six years, the Sea of Change Foundation has supported endangered species conservation projects and promoted ocean pollution awareness. Now, in partnership ...