THE philosophy of birds' nests and eggs involves questions far too profound to be settled in an hour's lecture. The extreme partisans of one school regard birds as organic automata. They take a ...

The problem of the cuckoo was a step nearer solution last week, with the publication of Cuckoo Problems (H.F. & G. Witherby, Ltd., London), an authoritative treatise on the somewhat wayward habits of ...

TOLEDO, Ohio (WTOL) - More women than ever are turning to charities for help. As the holiday season approaches and the temperature drops the need becomes even greater. The Sparrow's Nest fills that ...

Had I lived 100 years ago and taken an interest in birds in the 1800s, I might have been told that the chipping sparrow (Spizella passerina) was “a hair-bird” because it lines the nest with horsehair, ...

WHAT is the drift of this discussion on the eggs of the cuckow? Is it “natural selection,” “mimetic analogy,” or what? Are we to understand that by some process of “natural selection” the European ...