Read this before you start building a nest box for your local birds. Seeing a plywood nest box tucked amongst the branches of a tree or hoisted around its trunk is a familiar sight to many Australians ...

Save Our Suffolk Swifts says 504 boxes were used at 138 different locations in Suffolk in 2025.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Want to have an owl nest in your backyard? It's time to start to thinking about building a nesting box for your backyard.

Spring is in the air and with it comes nesting season. In the UK, birds start building their little houses from March onwards, making now an opportune moment to install a bird box in your garden.

Now is the time when, with one box, you can rock your world. Your age, background or experience in nature makes no difference. Do this one time and it will not only change the world, it will change ...

Homemade owl-nesting boxes are one option for attracting owls to your yard for a closer view and to control pests. In fact, a nesting space that attracts owls probably works better than using decoy ...

Cavity-nesting birds, like this black-cheeked woodpecker in Ecuador, rely on natural cavities, like the hole in this tree for nesting and reproductive success. (Daniel Karp, UC Davis) With an ...

And I know the owl box isn't the problem because identical boxes have successfully attracted nesting birds to the back yards of several readers. The most recent excited announcement arrived last week ...

“Barn Owlet Watch 2026” is officially underway in western North Carolina, where a nest box holding six barn owl eggs is now ...