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There are tons of benefits to building out your yard and gardens to attract birds: they help control insect populations, tamp down weed growth, pollinate flowers, and above all else? They're beautiful ...

As a self-professed nature nerd, I’ve become accustomed to common names for plants being misleading. Rose of Sharon, for instance, is not a rose but a hibiscus. It follows that names for animals may ...

The red-breasted American robin is a truly beautiful songbird with a large orange belly and a happy-go-lucky little voice. Attracting them to your garden is made easy work with certain plants, and one ...

On April 18, my husband found a cup-shaped nest made of mud, grass, leaves and small twigs ensconced within our Norway spruce. He noticed an adult robin’s head peering out from the nest. Ever since ...

American robins roost on a tree on Laurel Street in Santa Cruz on a recent afternoon. These birds are seen throughout North America — from breeding grounds above the Arctic Circle in Alaska and Canada ...

I didn’t know that American Robins were holding a secret. They are named for the European Robin, which is half its size, solely based on its familiar red breast. Naming a bird a robin was first ...