And then there are the birds that nest on the ground, deep in tall grass. Killdeer, part of the plover family, nest right in the open, in a scrape of gravel along a driveway or almost any dirt road.

Here’s what else to know. Despite the fact that birds are all around us, there’s a reason we don’t see nests everywhere: Parents try to build nests in secret. These hidden homes offer the ...

Instead, these birds seem to learn rules for nest-making that get passed down within a family group from generation to generation. That's the conclusion of researchers who studied nearly 450 ...

A research team has found birds' nests ... used them in its own nest. We have examples of crows using them and examples of magpies using them. And so this is within the family of the corvids ...