Solitary bees have a shorter lifespan compared to honeybees, usually lasting the spring or summer season. These bees have limited time to perform a lot of pollination work and they can use all the ...

Table 1 Nest box use by the boreal owl in Europe, North America, and Asia; the state, locality, elevation, period, the number of boxes, nests, box-years, and the nest box occupancy (expressed as the ...

Thomas J. Grubaugh (Biology) Texas A&M University at Corpus Christi Eastern bluebirds (Sialia sialis) commonly nest in man-made boxes, yet there have been few systematic attempts to understand how ...

Contrary to expectations, the size of the Blue Tits' nests is unrelated to their breeding success. The researchers behind a forthcoming study in The Auk: Ornithological Advances spent 18 years making ...

North American ducks are a model system in avian ecology and conservation, and most species have benefitted from decades of careful research 1. However, there is astonishingly little known about the ...

Do you enjoy watching wild birds in your yard? Most Arkansans do, and now is a perfect time to enhance those opportunities by building and installing nest boxes around your property. Many birds in The ...